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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 463 425
Rank change year-on-year +76 -38 -102
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 538 213 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.44% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.49% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 286 142 233
10th Percentile £38,772 £31,150 £45,680
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,563 £52,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £58,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.38% -7.20% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,125 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £48,500 £57,013
% change year-on-year +18.56% -14.93% +0.86%

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 87,497 43,445 57,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 88.84% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59,802 24,607 31,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £33,099
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% -11.32% -1.85%

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 16 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 17 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 16 October 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 +31 412 £67,500 +12.50% 104
UK excluding London +69 356 £57,500 +18.56% 77
Work from Home +55 199 £67,000 -7.59% 50
London -25 154 £82,500 - 40
Northern Ireland - 97 - - 4
North of England -7 79 £64,500 +84.29% 18
South East -12 75 £60,000 +118.18% 29
North West +6 43 £70,000 -31.71% 11
Midlands -36 39 £52,500 -2.21% 9
South West -49 29 £64,000 +16.36% 13
Yorkshire -15 28 £49,000 -18.33% 6
West Midlands -48 25 £51,875 -3.38% 6
East of England -27 23 £49,000 -10.91% 4
East Midlands - 14 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +9 9 £33,000 +49.13% 1
North East -68 8 £55,000 +57.14% 1
Wales -80 5 £115,000 +137.11% 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 27 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.60%) Confluence
3 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.12%) Apache
5 5 (0.93%) Camunda
6 4 (0.74%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.74%) CICS
6 4 (0.74%) WordPress
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.56%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.74%) Windchill
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.30%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.56%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.37%) Maximo
6 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.37%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.19%) Actimize
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 167 (31.04%) Azure
2 99 (18.40%) Power Platform
3 93 (17.29%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (9.85%) AWS
5 49 (9.11%) Dynamics 365
5 49 (9.11%) SaaS
6 43 (7.99%) PowerApps
7 39 (7.25%) Power Automate
8 37 (6.88%) GitHub
9 31 (5.76%) Azure Logic Apps
10 28 (5.20%) Entra ID
11 22 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (3.72%) Serverless
13 17 (3.16%) Azure Key Vault
14 16 (2.97%) GCP
15 14 (2.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 12 (2.23%) Azure Functions
16 12 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.30%) DNS
2 5 (0.93%) ATM
2 5 (0.93%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.93%) VPN
3 3 (0.56%) NAS
3 3 (0.56%) SAN
4 2 (0.37%) FTP
4 2 (0.37%) Intranet
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.90%) Power BI
2 27 (5.02%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.09%) Data Lake
4 16 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.23%) Metadata
6 11 (2.04%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.93%) Db2
10 5 (0.93%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.93%) Power Query
10 5 (0.93%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.74%) GIS
11 4 (0.74%) MySQL
11 4 (0.74%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 57 (10.59%) JIRA
2 54 (10.04%) Git
3 16 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.60%) GitLab
5 6 (1.12%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.93%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.93%) JUnit
6 5 (0.93%) Mockito
7 4 (0.74%) ChangeMan
8 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.37%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.37%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.19%) git-flow
10 1 (0.19%) mountebank
10 1 (0.19%) Postman
10 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.19%) Subversion
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 288 (53.53%) Social Skills
2 188 (34.94%) Analytical Skills
3 177 (32.90%) Finance
4 95 (17.66%) Presentation Skills
5 46 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 37 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (6.51%) Law
8 29 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (4.28%) Banking
10 22 (4.09%) Marketing
11 20 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (2.79%) Investment Banking
13 14 (2.60%) Retail
14 13 (2.42%) Front Office
14 13 (2.42%) Manufacturing
15 12 (2.23%) Legal
15 12 (2.23%) Local Government
15 12 (2.23%) Telecoms
16 11 (2.04%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 149 (27.70%) Analyst
2 126 (23.42%) Senior
3 104 (19.33%) ITSM Analyst
4 81 (15.06%) Senior Analyst
5 80 (14.87%) Support Analyst
6 70 (13.01%) Process Analyst
7 59 (10.97%) Lead
8 50 (9.29%) Developer
9 47 (8.74%) Senior Process Analyst
10 43 (7.99%) Senior Support Analyst
11 38 (7.06%) IT Analyst
12 37 (6.88%) Service Analyst
13 30 (5.58%) IT Manager
14 27 (5.02%) Service Management Analyst
14 27 (5.02%) Service Manager
15 24 (4.46%) Administrator
15 24 (4.46%) Release Manager
16 22 (4.09%) Consultant
17 21 (3.90%) IT Services Manager
18 19 (3.53%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.36%) REST
2 32 (5.95%) Terraform
3 25 (4.65%) .NET
4 19 (3.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 19 (3.53%) Middleware
5 18 (3.35%) SOAP
6 9 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (1.49%) JSON
7 8 (1.49%) OAuth
7 8 (1.49%) OAuth2
7 8 (1.49%) PySpark
7 8 (1.49%) Spring
7 8 (1.49%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.30%) ASP.NET
8 7 (1.30%) JWT
8 7 (1.30%) OpenID
8 7 (1.30%) XML
8 7 (1.30%) YAML
9 6 (1.12%) Kafka
9 6 (1.12%) React
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.52%) Management Information System
2 32 (5.95%) Enterprise Software
2 32 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.02%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.35%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.23%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.67%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.12%) Life Science
10 5 (0.93%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.74%) CMDB
11 4 (0.74%) Culture of Ownership
11 4 (0.74%) Legacy Code
11 4 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.65%) Linux
2 18 (3.35%) Windows
3 8 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.93%) Unix
5 4 (0.74%) zOS
6 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (58.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 221 (41.08%) ITIL
3 203 (37.73%) Change Management
4 175 (32.53%) DevOps
5 170 (31.60%) Service Management
6 159 (29.55%) Project Delivery
7 156 (29.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 153 (28.44%) Decision-Making
9 149 (27.70%) CI/CD
10 146 (27.14%) Agile
11 145 (26.95%) Root Cause Analysis
12 144 (26.77%) ITSM
13 143 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
14 136 (25.28%) Problem Management
14 136 (25.28%) Stakeholder Management
15 135 (25.09%) Risk Management
16 128 (23.79%) User Experience
17 120 (22.30%) Acceptance Criteria
18 112 (20.82%) Logistics
19 104 (19.33%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 81 (15.06%) SQL
2 43 (7.99%) Python
3 30 (5.58%) C#
4 20 (3.72%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.97%) Java
5 16 (2.97%) PowerShell
6 15 (2.79%) Apex Code
7 10 (1.86%) C++
8 9 (1.67%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.49%) COBOL
10 7 (1.30%) SOQL
10 7 (1.30%) SOSL
11 5 (0.93%) Bash
11 5 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.74%) Bicep
12 4 (0.74%) JCL
12 4 (0.74%) PHP
12 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.74%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 160 (29.74%) Degree
2 47 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.51%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.53%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 17 (3.16%) PMP
6 14 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CISM
13 1 (0.19%) CRISC
13 1 (0.19%) CSPO
13 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.75%) QA
2 44 (8.18%) Data Quality
3 26 (4.83%) GDPR
4 19 (3.53%) PMO
5 12 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.23%) SLA
6 8 (1.49%) Def Stans
6 8 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.74%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 4 (0.74%) TickIT
9 3 (0.56%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.37%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.37%) GxP
10 2 (0.37%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.37%) SOC 3
System Software
1 18 (3.35%) Docker
2 12 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.74%) Firmware
5 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.56%) IAG
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.04%) Ansible
3 6 (1.12%) Grafana
4 4 (0.74%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.37%) Argo
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.37%) SCCM
6 2 (0.37%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 128 (23.79%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.62%) Salesforce
2 41 (7.62%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.83%) SAP
4 20 (3.72%) Oracle
5 17 (3.16%) Databricks
5 17 (3.16%) Google
6 16 (2.97%) HP
6 16 (2.97%) Workday
7 9 (1.67%) FIS
7 9 (1.67%) Pega
7 9 (1.67%) SunGard
8 8 (1.49%) Concur
8 8 (1.49%) VMware
9 7 (1.30%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.30%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.12%) iManage
10 6 (1.12%) Okta
11 5 (0.93%) NetApp