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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 397 327
Rank change year-on-year -67 -70 +10
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 180 345 445
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.62% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.69% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 119 218 329
10th Percentile £26,250 £47,825 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -2.39%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £89,250 £90,000 £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 48,923 50,285 45,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.61% 89.72% 93.38%
Number of salaries quoted 28,723 25,244 34,703
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
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% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -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 23 December 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 23 December 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 -59 163 £60,000 - 239
UK excluding London -45 89 £48,500 -15.65% 216
London -9 84 £82,500 +26.92% 49
Work from Home +2 72 £68,750 +14.58% 33
South East +17 29 £27,500 -54.17% 61
Midlands -31 20 £48,094 -12.56% 47
West Midlands -14 18 £42,500 -26.09% 29
North of England -1 17 £52,500 -12.50% 41
Wales +6 8 £48,500 - 9
South West -5 7 £51,250 -10.87% 22
Yorkshire -13 7 £60,000 +14.29% 16
Scotland +3 6 £22,129 - 6
North West +17 5 £60,000 -11.11% 20
North East - 5 £35,000 - 5
East of England +22 4 £55,000 -6.38% 35
East Midlands -12 2 £70,000 +64.71% 16

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 (10.56%) WebSphere
2 16 (8.89%) Tomcat
2 16 (8.89%) WebSphere Application Server
3 14 (7.78%) Apache Spark
4 10 (5.56%) Confluence
5 8 (4.44%) SharePoint
6 7 (3.89%) IIS
7 6 (3.33%) Apache
8 5 (2.78%) CMS
8 5 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (1.67%) JBoss
10 2 (1.11%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (7.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (7.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Maya
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.67%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.67%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (1.11%) Endur
3 2 (1.11%) EuroRunner
3 2 (1.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.11%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.11%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.11%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (27.22%) AWS
2 47 (26.11%) Azure
3 16 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 14 (7.78%) GCP
6 11 (6.11%) Amazon EMR
7 10 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.56%) Serverless
8 9 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.44%) Power Platform
9 8 (4.44%) SaaS
9 8 (4.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 6 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (3.33%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.33%) Route 53
10 6 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.67%) SSL
2 6 (3.33%) Internet
2 6 (3.33%) SAN
2 6 (3.33%) WAN
3 5 (2.78%) LAN
3 5 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.78%) VoIP
4 3 (1.67%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.56%) Firewall
5 1 (0.56%) HTTP
5 1 (0.56%) Intranet
5 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.56%) SSH
5 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 27 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.89%) DB2
4 16 (8.89%) MySQL
5 15 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.33%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (7.78%) DynamoDB
7 13 (7.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (6.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (6.11%) Big Data
8 11 (6.11%) DataStage
8 11 (6.11%) Hadoop
8 11 (6.11%) Neo4j
8 11 (6.11%) Pentaho
8 11 (6.11%) RDBMS
9 7 (3.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (13.33%) JIRA
2 13 (7.22%) Git
3 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.67%) Ant
4 3 (1.67%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.67%) Maven
4 3 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.11%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.11%) JMeter
5 2 (1.11%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.11%) NeoLoad
5 2 (1.11%) NUnit
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.56%) Moq
6 1 (0.56%) MSTest
6 1 (0.56%) NSubstitute
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 82 (45.56%) Social Skills
2 80 (44.44%) Finance
3 41 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.67%) Banking
5 20 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 18 (10.00%) Law
7 11 (6.11%) Front Office
8 10 (5.56%) Retail
9 6 (3.33%) Legal
9 6 (3.33%) Marketing
10 4 (2.22%) Local Government
10 4 (2.22%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.11%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.56%) Games
13 1 (0.56%) Police
13 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (21.11%) Analyst
1 38 (21.11%) Applications Support
2 32 (17.78%) Support Analyst
3 25 (13.89%) Lead
4 20 (11.11%) Technical Support
5 18 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
6 16 (8.89%) Senior
7 15 (8.33%) Linux Support
8 14 (7.78%) Support Engineer
9 13 (7.22%) IT Analyst
9 13 (7.22%) IT Support
9 13 (7.22%) IT Support Analyst
9 13 (7.22%) Technical Analyst
9 13 (7.22%) Technical Support Analyst
10 11 (6.11%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (6.11%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (5.56%) Developer
11 10 (5.56%) Service Manager
11 10 (5.56%) Support Specialist
11 10 (5.56%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.78%) .NET
2 16 (8.89%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (8.89%) LDAP
2 16 (8.89%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (2.78%) .NET Framework
3 5 (2.78%) AngularJS
3 5 (2.78%) React
3 5 (2.78%) REST
4 4 (2.22%) CSS
4 4 (2.22%) HTML
4 4 (2.22%) Middleware
5 3 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.67%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (1.67%) Kafka
5 3 (1.67%) Pandas
5 3 (1.67%) RESTful
6 2 (1.11%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.11%) OAuth
6 2 (1.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.33%) Management Information System
2 17 (9.44%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (8.89%) Onboarding
4 11 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.44%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.89%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.33%) Clustering
8 4 (2.22%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.67%) Derivative
9 3 (1.67%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.67%) Equities
9 3 (1.67%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.67%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.11%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.00%) Windows
2 24 (13.33%) Linux
3 19 (10.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (9.44%) Unix
5 11 (6.11%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 56 (31.11%) Agile
3 55 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 46 (25.56%) ITIL
6 39 (21.67%) DevOps
7 37 (20.56%) Change Management
8 31 (17.22%) Roadmaps
9 30 (16.67%) Analytics
10 29 (16.11%) Service Management
10 29 (16.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (11.11%) SDLC
12 20 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 20 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
13 19 (10.56%) Change Control
13 19 (10.56%) ETL
13 19 (10.56%) Mentoring
13 19 (10.56%) Migration
14 18 (10.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 48 (26.67%) SQL
2 42 (23.33%) Python
3 18 (10.00%) C#
4 17 (9.44%) Java
5 11 (6.11%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.44%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.22%) Bash
8 3 (1.67%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.67%) Bicep
8 3 (1.67%) Groovy
8 3 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.67%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.11%) C++
9 2 (1.11%) PHP
9 2 (1.11%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 32 (17.78%) Degree
2 21 (11.67%) ITIL Certification
3 19 (10.56%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.89%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.22%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.11%) MBA
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.11%) SLA
2 19 (10.56%) QA
3 6 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.22%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.11%) GAAP
5 2 (1.11%) IFRS
5 2 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (4.44%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.78%) Ansible
2 5 (2.78%) Terraform
3 3 (1.67%) Podman
3 3 (1.67%) Puppet
4 2 (1.11%) Grafana
4 2 (1.11%) SCOM
5 1 (0.56%) Argo
5 1 (0.56%) Control-M
5 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) SCCM
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.11%) ServiceNow
3 27 (15.00%) Salesforce
4 23 (12.78%) Oracle
5 19 (10.56%) IBM
6 16 (8.89%) Red Hat
7 11 (6.11%) Informatica
7 11 (6.11%) Talend
8 4 (2.22%) BMC
8 4 (2.22%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.22%) Remedy
8 4 (2.22%) SAP
9 2 (1.11%) Databricks
9 2 (1.11%) Dell
9 2 (1.11%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.11%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.11%) Lotus
9 2 (1.11%) Trayport
9 2 (1.11%) VMware
10 1 (0.56%) Sitecore