Release Management Job Trends

Release Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Release Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 397 411
Rank change year-on-year -99 +14 -46
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 179 293 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.64% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.69% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 122 181 358
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,500 £39,396
25th Percentile £55,175 £53,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £63,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% +0.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £59,500
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.94% +8.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Release Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55,531 42,488 69,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.63% 93.22% 87.90%
Number of salaries quoted 33,358 21,624 53,124
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,900 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Release Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Release Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Release Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Release Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Release Management

Release Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the UK over the 6 months to 3 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -92 166 £70,000 +11.11% 115
London -17 91 £72,500 +11.54% 43
UK excluding London -83 74 £60,000 -2.04% 87
Work from Home -20 64 £67,500 +4.45% 40
Midlands -49 18 £75,000 +30.43% 8
South East -27 16 £27,500 -54.17% 33
South West -30 15 £62,500 -9.42% 12
West Midlands -18 13 £75,000 +30.43% 4
North of England -44 12 £60,000 -11.11% 19
East of England +7 9 £59,450 -15.07% 13
Yorkshire -41 6 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North West -3 5 £60,000 -20.00% 14
Scotland -15 5 £22,129 -64.80% 3
East Midlands -26 4 £75,000 +87.50% 4
North East -15 1 £82,500 +50.00% 1

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (6.15%) WebSphere
2 10 (5.59%) Tomcat
2 10 (5.59%) WebSphere Application Server
3 9 (5.03%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.91%) Confluence
5 5 (2.79%) CMS
6 3 (1.68%) Apache
7 2 (1.12%) IIS
7 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.56%) JBoss
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (4.47%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.56%) Maya
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.68%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.68%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.12%) Endur
4 2 (1.12%) EuroRunner
4 2 (1.12%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.12%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.56%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 58 (32.40%) Azure
2 33 (18.44%) AWS
3 29 (16.20%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (7.82%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 10 (5.59%) GCP
6 10 (5.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 7 (3.91%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (3.91%) Serverless
8 6 (3.35%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.35%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.35%) SaaS
9 5 (2.79%) dbt
9 5 (2.79%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.79%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.59%) SSL
2 6 (3.35%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.56%) Broadband
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) Intranet
3 1 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.06%) Relational Database
2 17 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.82%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.59%) DB2
5 9 (5.03%) MongoDB
5 9 (5.03%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (4.47%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.47%) Power BI
7 7 (3.91%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.91%) Big Data
7 7 (3.91%) DataStage
7 7 (3.91%) Hadoop
7 7 (3.91%) Metadata
7 7 (3.91%) MySQL
7 7 (3.91%) Neo4j
7 7 (3.91%) Pentaho
7 7 (3.91%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (10.06%) JIRA
2 14 (7.82%) Git
3 9 (5.03%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.12%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.12%) JMeter
4 2 (1.12%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.12%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.56%) Ant
5 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Maven
5 1 (0.56%) NUnit
5 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) Subversion
5 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 73 (40.78%) Social Skills
2 63 (35.20%) Finance
3 31 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.85%) Banking
5 17 (9.50%) Law
6 12 (6.70%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.35%) Front Office
7 6 (3.35%) Marketing
8 5 (2.79%) Legal
8 5 (2.79%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.12%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.12%) Games
10 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (21.79%) Lead
2 27 (15.08%) Senior
3 25 (13.97%) Analyst
4 22 (12.29%) Applications Support
5 18 (10.06%) Developer
5 18 (10.06%) Support Analyst
6 10 (5.59%) IT Analyst
6 10 (5.59%) Linux Support
6 10 (5.59%) Technical Leader
7 9 (5.03%) Applications Support Analyst
7 9 (5.03%) IT Manager
7 9 (5.03%) Senior Developer
7 9 (5.03%) Service Manager
8 8 (4.47%) IT Support
8 8 (4.47%) IT Support Analyst
8 8 (4.47%) Software Manager
8 8 (4.47%) Technical Analyst
8 8 (4.47%) Technical Support
8 8 (4.47%) Technical Support Analyst
9 7 (3.91%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.85%) .NET
2 10 (5.59%) LAPP Stack
2 10 (5.59%) LDAP
2 10 (5.59%) React
2 10 (5.59%) WebSphere MQ
3 9 (5.03%) .NET Core
4 7 (3.91%) REST
5 4 (2.23%) CSS
5 4 (2.23%) HTML
5 4 (2.23%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.68%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.68%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (1.68%) Middleware
6 3 (1.68%) PySpark
6 3 (1.68%) SOAP
7 2 (1.12%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.12%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.12%) OAuth
7 2 (1.12%) RESTful
7 2 (1.12%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.08%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.94%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.82%) Data Structures
4 12 (6.70%) Reinsurance
5 10 (5.59%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (5.59%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.23%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.68%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.68%) Derivative
9 3 (1.68%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.68%) Equities
10 2 (1.12%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.41%) Windows
2 14 (7.82%) Linux
3 11 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (6.15%) Unix
4 8 (4.47%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.52%) Agile
1 60 (33.52%) DevOps
2 51 (28.49%) Continuous Improvement
3 48 (26.82%) ITIL
4 47 (26.26%) CI/CD
5 45 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (20.67%) Change Management
7 35 (19.55%) Roadmaps
8 32 (17.88%) Service Management
9 30 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (12.85%) Incident Management
10 23 (12.85%) ITSM
11 22 (12.29%) SDLC
12 21 (11.73%) Business Intelligence
13 20 (11.17%) AI
13 20 (11.17%) ETL
13 20 (11.17%) User Acceptance Testing
14 19 (10.61%) Software Engineering
15 18 (10.06%) Data Modelling
15 18 (10.06%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.93%) SQL
2 32 (17.88%) Python
3 13 (7.26%) Java
3 13 (7.26%) PowerShell
4 11 (6.15%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.47%) C#
6 6 (3.35%) Apex Code
6 6 (3.35%) VB.NET
7 3 (1.68%) Bicep
8 2 (1.12%) Bash
8 2 (1.12%) PHP
8 2 (1.12%) SOQL
8 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.56%) ABAP
9 1 (0.56%) Go
9 1 (0.56%) Groovy
9 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.56%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 25 (13.97%) Degree
2 15 (8.38%) ITIL Certification
3 12 (6.70%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.79%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.23%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.23%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.68%) MBA
6 3 (1.68%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.68%) PMP
7 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.88%) QA
2 13 (7.26%) SLA
3 8 (4.47%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.23%) PMO
5 3 (1.68%) GDPR
6 2 (1.12%) GAAP
6 2 (1.12%) IFRS
6 2 (1.12%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.68%) Ansible
4 2 (1.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Argo
5 1 (0.56%) Control-M
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) Podman
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) SCCM
5 1 (0.56%) SCOM
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (17.88%) ServiceNow
2 27 (15.08%) Microsoft
3 23 (12.85%) Salesforce
4 11 (6.15%) IBM
4 11 (6.15%) Oracle
5 10 (5.59%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.91%) Informatica
6 7 (3.91%) Talend
7 5 (2.79%) Databricks
7 5 (2.79%) Remedy
7 5 (2.79%) SAP
8 4 (2.23%) BMC
9 2 (1.12%) Intapp
9 2 (1.12%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.12%) Trayport
10 1 (0.56%) Gemalto
10 1 (0.56%) Google
10 1 (0.56%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.56%) Triple Point