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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 448 426
Rank change year-on-year +69 -22 -103
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 532 216 362
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 282 144 233
10th Percentile £38,772 £32,500 £45,680
25th Percentile £48,000 £47,688 £52,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £96,375 £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 87,229 43,738 58,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 88.90% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 59,718 24,553 31,325
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,925
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,243 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,600
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.70% -2.59%

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 15 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 15 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 +28 406 £67,500 +12.50% 474
UK excluding London +42 355 £57,500 +18.56% 206
Work from Home +45 198 £67,500 -6.90% 187
London -33 149 £82,750 +5.08% 261
Northern Ireland - 97 - - 11
North of England -11 78 £62,500 +78.57% 52
South East -9 75 £60,000 +118.18% 61
North West +8 43 £70,000 -31.71% 35
Midlands -34 39 £52,500 -2.21% 28
South West -54 29 £64,000 +16.36% 22
Yorkshire -15 28 £49,000 -18.33% 13
West Midlands -50 25 £51,875 -3.38% 25
East of England -24 23 £49,000 -10.91% 21
East Midlands - 14 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +19 9 £33,000 +49.13% 8
North East -61 7 £55,000 +57.14% 4
Wales -70 5 £115,000 +137.11% 5

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 26 (4.89%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.44%) Confluence
3 10 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.13%) Apache
5 5 (0.94%) Camunda
6 4 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.75%) CICS
6 4 (0.75%) 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 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.75%) Windchill
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.32%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.56%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Maximo
6 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.38%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.38%) 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
1 164 (30.83%) Azure
2 98 (18.42%) Power Platform
3 91 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (9.96%) AWS
5 48 (9.02%) Dynamics 365
5 48 (9.02%) SaaS
6 41 (7.71%) PowerApps
7 38 (7.14%) GitHub
8 37 (6.95%) Power Automate
9 31 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 28 (5.26%) Entra ID
11 22 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (3.76%) Serverless
13 17 (3.20%) Azure Key Vault
14 16 (3.01%) GCP
15 14 (2.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 12 (2.26%) Azure Functions
16 12 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.07%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.32%) DNS
2 5 (0.94%) ATM
2 5 (0.94%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.94%) VPN
3 3 (0.56%) NAS
3 3 (0.56%) SAN
4 2 (0.38%) FTP
4 2 (0.38%) Intranet
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (12.22%) Power BI
2 27 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.14%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.26%) Metadata
6 11 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (0.94%) Db2
10 5 (0.94%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.94%) Power Query
10 5 (0.94%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.75%) GIS
11 4 (0.75%) MySQL
11 4 (0.75%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 57 (10.71%) JIRA
2 53 (9.96%) Git
3 16 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.63%) GitLab
5 6 (1.13%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.94%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.94%) JUnit
6 5 (0.94%) Mockito
7 4 (0.75%) ChangeMan
8 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
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
1 287 (53.95%) Social Skills
2 189 (35.53%) Analytical Skills
3 175 (32.89%) Finance
4 95 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
5 46 (8.65%) Public Sector
6 37 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (6.58%) Law
8 27 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (4.32%) Marketing
10 22 (4.14%) Banking
11 20 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (2.82%) Retail
13 14 (2.63%) Investment Banking
14 13 (2.44%) Manufacturing
15 12 (2.26%) Front Office
15 12 (2.26%) Legal
15 12 (2.26%) Local Government
15 12 (2.26%) Telecoms
16 11 (2.07%) Aerospace
17 10 (1.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 149 (28.01%) Analyst
2 127 (23.87%) Senior
3 104 (19.55%) ITSM Analyst
4 81 (15.23%) Senior Analyst
5 80 (15.04%) Support Analyst
6 70 (13.16%) Process Analyst
7 57 (10.71%) Lead
8 51 (9.59%) Developer
9 47 (8.83%) Senior Process Analyst
10 43 (8.08%) Senior Support Analyst
11 38 (7.14%) IT Analyst
12 37 (6.95%) Service Analyst
13 30 (5.64%) IT Manager
14 27 (5.08%) Service Management Analyst
15 26 (4.89%) Service Manager
16 24 (4.51%) Administrator
17 23 (4.32%) Release Manager
18 22 (4.14%) Consultant
19 21 (3.95%) IT Services Manager
20 19 (3.57%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.65%) REST
2 31 (5.83%) Terraform
3 23 (4.32%) .NET
4 20 (3.76%) Middleware
5 19 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
5 19 (3.57%) SOAP
6 9 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (1.69%) JSON
7 8 (1.50%) OAuth
7 8 (1.50%) OAuth2
7 8 (1.50%) PySpark
7 8 (1.50%) Spring
7 8 (1.50%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.50%) XML
8 7 (1.32%) ASP.NET
8 7 (1.32%) JWT
8 7 (1.32%) OpenID
8 7 (1.32%) YAML
9 6 (1.13%) Kafka
9 6 (1.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.65%) Management Information System
2 30 (5.64%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.38%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.26%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.69%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.13%) Life Science
12 5 (0.94%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.94%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.75%) CMDB
13 4 (0.75%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (0.75%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.70%) Linux
2 18 (3.38%) Windows
3 8 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.94%) Unix
5 4 (0.75%) zOS
6 2 (0.38%) 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
1 311 (58.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 220 (41.35%) ITIL
3 202 (37.97%) Change Management
4 173 (32.52%) DevOps
5 169 (31.77%) Service Management
6 157 (29.51%) Project Delivery
7 156 (29.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 153 (28.76%) Decision-Making
9 146 (27.44%) CI/CD
10 145 (27.26%) Agile
11 143 (26.88%) ITSM
11 143 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
11 143 (26.88%) Root Cause Analysis
12 136 (25.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 135 (25.38%) Problem Management
14 134 (25.19%) Risk Management
15 128 (24.06%) User Experience
16 120 (22.56%) Acceptance Criteria
17 112 (21.05%) Logistics
18 104 (19.55%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 82 (15.41%) SQL
2 42 (7.89%) Python
3 28 (5.26%) C#
4 20 (3.76%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.01%) Java
6 15 (2.82%) Apex Code
6 15 (2.82%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.88%) C++
8 9 (1.69%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.50%) COBOL
10 7 (1.32%) SOQL
10 7 (1.32%) SOSL
11 5 (0.94%) Bash
11 5 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.75%) Bicep
12 4 (0.75%) JCL
12 4 (0.75%) PHP
12 4 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.75%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 160 (30.08%) Degree
2 47 (8.83%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.20%) Azure Certification
5 17 (3.20%) PMP
6 14 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.19%) CISM
12 1 (0.19%) CRISC
12 1 (0.19%) CSPO
12 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (13.91%) QA
2 44 (8.27%) Data Quality
3 26 (4.89%) GDPR
4 18 (3.38%) PMO
5 12 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.26%) SLA
6 8 (1.50%) Def Stans
6 8 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.94%) TickIT
8 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.75%) ISO 9000
8 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 3 (0.56%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
10 2 (0.38%) GxP
10 2 (0.38%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.38%) SOC 3
System Software
1 18 (3.38%) Docker
2 12 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.75%) 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 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.07%) Ansible
3 6 (1.13%) Grafana
4 4 (0.75%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.38%) Argo
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.38%) SCCM
6 2 (0.38%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 125 (23.50%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.71%) Salesforce
2 41 (7.71%) ServiceNow
3 26 (4.89%) SAP
4 20 (3.76%) Oracle
5 17 (3.20%) Google
6 16 (3.01%) Databricks
6 16 (3.01%) HP
6 16 (3.01%) Workday
7 9 (1.69%) FIS
7 9 (1.69%) Pega
7 9 (1.69%) SunGard
8 8 (1.50%) Concur
8 8 (1.50%) VMware
9 7 (1.32%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.13%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.13%) iManage
10 6 (1.13%) Okta
11 5 (0.94%) NetApp