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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 400 327
Rank change year-on-year -65 -73 +31
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 189 393 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.58% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.69% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 123 252 369
10th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,902 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -15.65% +1.72% +2.77%

All Process and 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 45,560 57,007 47,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.92% 84.85% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,788 29,760 36,892
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.75% +3.69% -0.19%

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 26 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 16 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 26 November 2025. 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 -47 173 £60,000 - 102
UK excluding London -44 99 £48,500 -15.65% 91
London +8 84 £82,500 +26.92% 54
Work from Home +38 79 £76,250 +25.77% 52
South East +10 35 £27,500 -51.76% 48
Midlands -12 20 £42,500 -26.09% 7
North of England +31 19 £43,750 -16.67% 10
West Midlands +5 18 £42,500 -27.66% 3
South West +13 9 £53,750 -15.02% 6
Yorkshire +5 9 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Wales +15 8 £48,500 -11.82% 8
Scotland +6 6 £22,129 -65.96% 3
North West +32 5 £52,500 -12.50% 7
North East - 5 £35,000 - 1
East of England +22 4 £65,000 +10.64% 9
East Midlands +19 2 £70,000 +64.71% 4

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 19 (10.05%) WebSphere
2 16 (8.47%) Tomcat
2 16 (8.47%) WebSphere Application Server
3 12 (6.35%) Confluence
4 11 (5.82%) Apache Spark
4 11 (5.82%) IIS
5 8 (4.23%) SharePoint
6 7 (3.70%) Apache
7 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (2.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (2.12%) CMS
9 3 (1.59%) JBoss
10 2 (1.06%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.53%) nginx
11 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (6.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (6.88%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.53%) Maya
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.06%) Endur
3 2 (1.06%) EuroRunner
3 2 (1.06%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.06%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.06%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.06%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.06%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.53%) Magento
4 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (25.40%) AWS
2 44 (23.28%) Azure
3 15 (7.94%) SaaS
4 14 (7.41%) GitHub
5 13 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.82%) GCP
6 11 (5.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 10 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.29%) Serverless
8 9 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.23%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.70%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.17%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.17%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.17%) PowerApps
11 6 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.11%) SSL
2 6 (3.17%) Internet
2 6 (3.17%) SAN
2 6 (3.17%) WAN
3 5 (2.65%) LAN
3 5 (2.65%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.65%) VoIP
4 2 (1.06%) Network Security
5 1 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.53%) Firewall
5 1 (0.53%) FTP
5 1 (0.53%) HTTP
5 1 (0.53%) Intranet
5 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.53%) SSH
5 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.16%) SQL Server
2 24 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.47%) DB2
4 15 (7.94%) MySQL
5 12 (6.35%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.35%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 11 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.82%) DynamoDB
7 8 (4.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (4.23%) Big Data
7 8 (4.23%) DataStage
7 8 (4.23%) Hadoop
7 8 (4.23%) Neo4j
7 8 (4.23%) Pentaho
7 8 (4.23%) RDBMS
7 8 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.12%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 30 (15.87%) JIRA
2 10 (5.29%) Git
3 4 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.59%) Ant
4 3 (1.59%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.59%) Maven
4 3 (1.59%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.06%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.06%) JMeter
5 2 (1.06%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.06%) NeoLoad
5 2 (1.06%) NUnit
5 2 (1.06%) Selenium
5 2 (1.06%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.53%) Moq
6 1 (0.53%) MSTest
6 1 (0.53%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Redmine
6 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 86 (45.50%) Social Skills
2 80 (42.33%) Finance
3 37 (19.58%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.29%) Banking
5 19 (10.05%) Investment Banking
6 15 (7.94%) Law
7 11 (5.82%) Front Office
8 10 (5.29%) Retail
9 7 (3.70%) Back Office
9 7 (3.70%) Local Government
10 6 (3.17%) Legal
11 4 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.59%) Marketing
13 2 (1.06%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.53%) Games
14 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (20.11%) Analyst
2 36 (19.05%) Applications Support
3 29 (15.34%) Support Analyst
4 25 (13.23%) Lead
5 21 (11.11%) Senior
6 20 (10.58%) Technical Support
7 16 (8.47%) IT Analyst
8 15 (7.94%) Applications Support Analyst
8 15 (7.94%) Developer
8 15 (7.94%) Linux Support
8 15 (7.94%) Support Engineer
9 13 (6.88%) IT Support
9 13 (6.88%) IT Support Analyst
9 13 (6.88%) Technical Analyst
9 13 (6.88%) Technical Support Analyst
10 11 (5.82%) Infrastructure Support
11 10 (5.29%) Support Specialist
11 10 (5.29%) Unix Support
12 9 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.17%) .NET
2 16 (8.47%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (8.47%) LDAP
2 16 (8.47%) WebSphere MQ
3 11 (5.82%) .NET Framework
4 8 (4.23%) AngularJS
4 8 (4.23%) React
4 8 (4.23%) REST
5 7 (3.70%) Entity Framework
5 7 (3.70%) HTML
6 6 (3.17%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.17%) CSS
7 5 (2.65%) Middleware
8 4 (2.12%) Dapper ORM
8 4 (2.12%) RESTful
9 3 (1.59%) CSS3
9 3 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.59%) HTML5
9 3 (1.59%) Kafka
9 3 (1.59%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 48 (25.40%) Management Information System
2 20 (10.58%) Onboarding
3 16 (8.47%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (6.88%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.23%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.70%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.17%) Clustering
8 5 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.12%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.06%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
11 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.11%) Windows
2 24 (12.70%) Linux
3 19 (10.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (8.99%) Unix
5 12 (6.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (35.98%) Agile
2 65 (34.39%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 53 (28.04%) ITIL
5 47 (24.87%) CI/CD
6 40 (21.16%) DevOps
7 36 (19.05%) Change Management
8 30 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (14.81%) Migration
9 28 (14.81%) Roadmaps
9 28 (14.81%) Service Management
10 25 (13.23%) Analytics
11 23 (12.17%) Data Migration
12 21 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 20 (10.58%) Scrum
13 20 (10.58%) User Acceptance Testing
14 19 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (10.05%) Software Engineering
15 18 (9.52%) Mentoring
15 18 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 48 (25.40%) SQL
2 41 (21.69%) Python
3 21 (11.11%) C#
4 16 (8.47%) Java
5 13 (6.88%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.12%) Bash
6 4 (2.12%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.59%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.59%) Groovy
7 3 (1.59%) PHP
7 3 (1.59%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.59%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.06%) C++
8 2 (1.06%) R
9 1 (0.53%) Bicep
9 1 (0.53%) Go
9 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.53%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (17.46%) Degree
2 18 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 18 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.06%) CCSP
7 2 (1.06%) CISA
7 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.06%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.53%) CCSK
8 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.93%) SLA
2 22 (11.64%) QA
3 6 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.06%) GAAP
5 2 (1.06%) IFRS
5 2 (1.06%) PMO
5 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.70%) Docker
3 6 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.53%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 7 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.65%) Ansible
3 3 (1.59%) Podman
3 3 (1.59%) Puppet
3 3 (1.59%) Terraform
4 2 (1.06%) SCOM
5 1 (0.53%) Control-M
5 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) SCCM
5 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (28.04%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.81%) ServiceNow
3 24 (12.70%) Salesforce
4 22 (11.64%) Oracle
5 19 (10.05%) IBM
6 16 (8.47%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.23%) Informatica
7 8 (4.23%) Talend
8 7 (3.70%) VMware
9 6 (3.17%) SAP
10 3 (1.59%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.06%) BMC
11 2 (1.06%) Cisco
11 2 (1.06%) Dell
11 2 (1.06%) JD Edwards
11 2 (1.06%) Juniper
11 2 (1.06%) Lotus
11 2 (1.06%) Remedy
11 2 (1.06%) Sybase
11 2 (1.06%) Trayport