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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 447 450
Rank change year-on-year +41 +3 -123
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 504 229 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.52% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 290 156 237
10th Percentile £38,772 £32,500 £45,680
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £56,021 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.95% -10.37% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £89,375 £93,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £57,525
% change year-on-year +17.07% -10.91% +1.77%

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 85,853 43,932 62,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.10% 88.75% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,280 24,639 34,370
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 September 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 26 September 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 +16 397 £70,000 +21.74% 534
UK excluding London +22 330 £60,000 +17.07% 295
Work from Home +48 191 £67,500 +9.76% 239
London -26 144 £85,000 +9.68% 275
North of England -1 84 £72,500 +33.64% 74
Northern Ireland - 79 - - 21
South East +7 75 £60,000 +101.68% 74
North West +10 48 £73,000 +16.80% 47
Midlands -47 36 £52,500 -2.21% 39
Yorkshire -24 28 £72,500 +27.75% 23
South West -63 25 £54,000 -4.84% 29
West Midlands -49 23 £51,875 -3.38% 25
East of England -13 19 £56,250 +2.27% 26
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 14
Scotland +15 9 £33,000 +49.13% 22
North East -60 8 £55,000 +57.14% 4
Wales -70 3 £55,395 +14.22% 10

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 24 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.18%) Confluence
4 5 (0.99%) Camunda
5 4 (0.79%) Apache
5 4 (0.79%) CICS
6 3 (0.60%) IIS
6 3 (0.60%) WordPress
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.79%) Windchill
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (2.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.99%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.60%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.60%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.40%) Maximo
5 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.40%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 166 (32.94%) Azure
2 99 (19.64%) Power Platform
3 96 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (11.90%) Dynamics 365
5 47 (9.33%) SaaS
6 42 (8.33%) AWS
7 41 (8.13%) GitHub
8 36 (7.14%) PowerApps
9 32 (6.35%) Power Automate
10 31 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
10 31 (6.15%) Entra ID
11 20 (3.97%) Serverless
12 18 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (3.37%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 13 (2.58%) Azure Functions
15 13 (2.58%) GCP
16 12 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.39%) DNS
2 6 (1.19%) VPN
3 5 (0.99%) ATM
3 5 (0.99%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.60%) NAS
4 3 (0.60%) SAN
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) Firewall
5 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.10%) Power BI
2 24 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.98%) Metadata
6 10 (1.98%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.39%) Spark SQL
9 5 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.99%) Db2
9 5 (0.99%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.99%) Tableau
10 4 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.79%) GIS
10 4 (0.79%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.79%) Redis
10 4 (0.79%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.60%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 59 (11.71%) JIRA
2 53 (10.52%) Git
3 17 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.18%) GitLab
5 6 (1.19%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.99%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.99%) JUnit
6 5 (0.99%) Mockito
7 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.79%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.20%) git-flow
9 1 (0.20%) mountebank
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.20%) Subversion
9 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 270 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 165 (32.74%) Analytical Skills
3 164 (32.54%) Finance
4 76 (15.08%) Presentation Skills
5 41 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.54%) Law
7 26 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.16%) Marketing
7 26 (5.16%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (4.56%) Banking
9 22 (4.37%) Retail
10 18 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (2.78%) Investment Banking
12 13 (2.58%) Legal
13 12 (2.38%) Front Office
13 12 (2.38%) Local Government
13 12 (2.38%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.79%) Military
15 8 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 124 (24.60%) Analyst
2 123 (24.40%) Senior
3 85 (16.87%) ITSM Analyst
4 69 (13.69%) Senior Analyst
5 66 (13.10%) Support Analyst
6 57 (11.31%) Process Analyst
7 56 (11.11%) Lead
8 51 (10.12%) Developer
9 41 (8.13%) Senior Process Analyst
10 37 (7.34%) Senior Support Analyst
11 31 (6.15%) Service Analyst
12 29 (5.75%) IT Manager
13 28 (5.56%) Service Manager
14 27 (5.36%) IT Analyst
15 26 (5.16%) Consultant
16 24 (4.76%) Administrator
17 23 (4.56%) Senior Developer
18 21 (4.17%) IT Services Manager
18 21 (4.17%) Service Management Analyst
19 20 (3.97%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.52%) REST
2 36 (7.14%) Terraform
3 27 (5.36%) Middleware
4 26 (5.16%) SOAP
5 19 (3.77%) .NET
5 19 (3.77%) Lightning Web Components
6 18 (3.57%) JSON
7 13 (2.58%) XML
8 12 (2.38%) EDI
9 10 (1.98%) PySpark
10 9 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (1.59%) YAML
12 7 (1.39%) ARM Templates
12 7 (1.39%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.39%) OAuth
12 7 (1.39%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.39%) React
13 6 (1.19%) JWT
13 6 (1.19%) Spring
13 6 (1.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.51%) Management Information System
2 28 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.58%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.79%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.19%) Life Science
11 6 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.99%) CMDB
12 5 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.79%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.79%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.16%) Linux
2 18 (3.57%) Windows
3 8 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.99%) Unix
5 4 (0.79%) zOS
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (50.60%) Continuous Improvement
2 188 (37.30%) ITIL
3 178 (35.32%) Change Management
4 174 (34.52%) DevOps
5 145 (28.77%) CI/CD
5 145 (28.77%) Service Management
6 136 (26.98%) Decision-Making
7 134 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
7 134 (26.59%) Project Delivery
8 131 (25.99%) Agile
9 130 (25.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 126 (25.00%) ITSM
11 123 (24.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 120 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
13 114 (22.62%) Problem Management
14 107 (21.23%) Risk Management
15 106 (21.03%) User Experience
16 101 (20.04%) Acceptance Criteria
17 91 (18.06%) Logistics
18 85 (16.87%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 89 (17.66%) SQL
2 49 (9.72%) Python
3 25 (4.96%) C#
4 20 (3.97%) JavaScript
5 17 (3.37%) PowerShell
6 16 (3.17%) Java
7 14 (2.78%) Apex Code
8 10 (1.98%) C++
9 8 (1.59%) Bash
9 8 (1.59%) COBOL
10 7 (1.39%) SOQL
10 7 (1.39%) SOSL
10 7 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.79%) JCL
12 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.60%) Bicep
13 3 (0.60%) C
13 3 (0.60%) Perl
13 3 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 137 (27.18%) Degree
2 48 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 38 (7.54%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.77%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.37%) PMP
6 15 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.18%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.98%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.39%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.20%) CISA
13 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.20%) CISM
13 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (14.29%) QA
2 44 (8.73%) Data Quality
3 28 (5.56%) GDPR
4 20 (3.97%) PMO
5 13 (2.58%) SLA
6 12 (2.38%) TickIT
7 11 (2.18%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.59%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.79%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.60%) GRC
11 3 (0.60%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.40%) GxP
12 2 (0.40%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.40%) SOC 3
System Software
1 17 (3.37%) Docker
2 14 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.79%) Firmware
5 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.60%) IAG
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.98%) Ansible
3 5 (0.99%) Grafana
4 4 (0.79%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.40%) Argo
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.40%) SCCM
6 2 (0.40%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) Packer
7 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 127 (25.20%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 38 (7.54%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.76%) SAP
5 18 (3.57%) Oracle
6 16 (3.17%) Databricks
6 16 (3.17%) HP
7 14 (2.78%) Workday
8 13 (2.58%) Google
9 9 (1.79%) FIS
9 9 (1.79%) SunGard
10 8 (1.59%) VMware
11 7 (1.39%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.19%) Concur
12 6 (1.19%) iManage
12 6 (1.19%) LogicMonitor
13 5 (0.99%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.99%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.99%) NetApp
13 5 (0.99%) Pega