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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 385 433
Rank change year-on-year -120 +48 -57
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 194 268 499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.66% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.70% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 127 174 371
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,150 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,688 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £64,627 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £103,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £63,564 £59,500
% change year-on-year +6.19% +6.83% +8.18%

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 60,831 38,033 77,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.64% 93.07% 86.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,418 22,319 57,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

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 1 April 2026.

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 1 April 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 -121 170 £72,500 +11.86% 92
London -43 85 £72,500 +11.54% 35
UK excluding London -127 84 £67,500 +6.19% 71
Work from Home -30 65 £70,000 +8.31% 39
North of England -52 20 £72,500 -3.33% 10
Midlands -54 18 £75,000 +39.70% 7
South East -61 17 £50,000 -16.67% 34
South West -47 15 £62,500 -9.42% 8
West Midlands -39 13 £75,000 +39.70% 6
Yorkshire -46 12 £72,500 +107.14% 2
East of England -22 11 £59,450 -15.07% 7
North West -27 5 £67,500 -10.00% 6
East Midlands -42 4 £75,000 +87.50% 1
North East -24 3 £77,500 +40.91% 2
Scotland -22 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2

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 10 (5.15%) Confluence
2 7 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.58%) Tomcat
3 5 (2.58%) WebSphere
3 5 (2.58%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.06%) CMS
5 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.55%) IIS
5 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.03%) Apache
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.52%) Maya
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.55%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.55%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (1.03%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.03%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.03%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.52%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.52%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 68 (35.05%) Azure
2 41 (21.13%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (14.95%) AWS
4 18 (9.28%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (7.22%) GCP
7 13 (6.70%) Entra ID
8 11 (5.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 10 (5.15%) SaaS
10 9 (4.64%) Serverless
11 7 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (3.09%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.09%) Cloudflare
12 6 (3.09%) dbt
12 6 (3.09%) Vercel
13 5 (2.58%) Amazon S3
13 5 (2.58%) GitHub
13 5 (2.58%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.09%) WinSCP
2 5 (2.58%) SSL
3 1 (0.52%) Broadband
3 1 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) Intranet
3 1 (0.52%) SSH
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.22%) Relational Database
2 12 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (6.19%) Power BI
3 10 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.61%) Big Data
5 7 (3.61%) Metadata
6 5 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (2.58%) DataStage
6 5 (2.58%) DB2
6 5 (2.58%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.58%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.58%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.58%) MySQL
6 5 (2.58%) Neo4j
6 5 (2.58%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.58%) Pentaho
6 5 (2.58%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 27 (13.92%) JIRA
2 16 (8.25%) Git
3 9 (4.64%) Eclipse
4 6 (3.09%) GitLab
4 6 (3.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.03%) Subversion
6 1 (0.52%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.52%) JMeter
6 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.52%) NUnit
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.52%) Postman
6 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 76 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 62 (31.96%) Finance
3 27 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.82%) Banking
5 20 (10.31%) Law
6 13 (6.70%) Legal
7 10 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.64%) Marketing
9 7 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.61%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.09%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.06%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.55%) Front Office
12 3 (1.55%) Games
12 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.03%) Retail
14 1 (0.52%) Billing
14 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.52%) Police
14 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (22.68%) Lead
2 30 (15.46%) Senior
3 24 (12.37%) Analyst
4 21 (10.82%) Applications Support
5 18 (9.28%) Developer
6 13 (6.70%) Software Manager
6 13 (6.70%) Technical Leader
7 12 (6.19%) Support Analyst
8 10 (5.15%) Applications Support Analyst
8 10 (5.15%) Engineering Manager
8 10 (5.15%) Senior Developer
8 10 (5.15%) Software Engineering Manager
9 9 (4.64%) Service Manager
10 8 (4.12%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.12%) IT Manager
10 8 (4.12%) Senior Manager
11 7 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.61%) Release Manager
11 7 (3.61%) Salesforce Developer
12 6 (3.09%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.82%) .NET
2 14 (7.22%) React
3 13 (6.70%) REST
4 10 (5.15%) CSS
4 10 (5.15%) HTML
5 8 (4.12%) .NET Core
6 7 (3.61%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (3.09%) PySpark
8 5 (2.58%) ARM Templates
8 5 (2.58%) LAPP Stack
8 5 (2.58%) LDAP
8 5 (2.58%) Middleware
8 5 (2.58%) SOAP
8 5 (2.58%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.55%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (1.55%) JSON
9 3 (1.55%) Visualforce
10 2 (1.03%) OAuth
10 2 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.76%) Product Ownership
2 16 (8.25%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.70%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.19%) Data Structures
4 12 (6.19%) Reinsurance
5 10 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.12%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.09%) Culture of Ownership
7 6 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.09%) Podcast
8 5 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (2.06%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.55%) Derivative
10 3 (1.55%) Equities
11 2 (1.03%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.31%) Windows
2 9 (4.64%) Linux
2 9 (4.64%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.61%) Unix
4 5 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (43.81%) DevOps
2 77 (39.69%) Agile
3 63 (32.47%) CI/CD
4 56 (28.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (26.80%) ITIL
6 45 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (21.65%) Roadmaps
8 40 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (19.07%) Change Management
10 35 (18.04%) Incident Management
11 34 (17.53%) Service Management
12 32 (16.49%) AI
13 30 (15.46%) Scrum
14 28 (14.43%) Test Automation
15 25 (12.89%) Data Modelling
15 25 (12.89%) ITSM
15 25 (12.89%) Software Engineering
16 22 (11.34%) ETL
16 22 (11.34%) Root Cause Analysis
17 21 (10.82%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 55 (28.35%) SQL
2 33 (17.01%) Python
3 18 (9.28%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.22%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.70%) Java
6 7 (3.61%) C#
7 6 (3.09%) Apex Code
7 6 (3.09%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.55%) Bicep
8 3 (1.55%) SOQL
8 3 (1.55%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.03%) SOSL
10 1 (0.52%) Bash
10 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.52%) Go
10 1 (0.52%) Korn
10 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (15.98%) Degree
2 11 (5.67%) PMI Certification
2 11 (5.67%) PMP
3 10 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.15%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (4.64%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.12%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.06%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.06%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.55%) MBA
8 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.53%) QA
2 11 (5.67%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.67%) GDPR
2 11 (5.67%) GRC
3 10 (5.15%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.64%) SLA
5 7 (3.61%) PMO
6 4 (2.06%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.03%) GAAP
8 2 (1.03%) IFRS
9 1 (0.52%) NIST
9 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.52%) TickIT
9 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.52%) Terminal Server
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (7.22%) Terraform
2 12 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.58%) Ansible
4 3 (1.55%) Grafana
5 2 (1.03%) SCCM
5 2 (1.03%) SCOM
6 1 (0.52%) Argo
6 1 (0.52%) Control-M
6 1 (0.52%) Kibana
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.52%) Packer
6 1 (0.52%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (17.01%) ServiceNow
2 28 (14.43%) Microsoft
3 25 (12.89%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.67%) Oracle
5 10 (5.15%) Databricks
6 7 (3.61%) IBM
7 5 (2.58%) Informatica
7 5 (2.58%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.58%) Remedy
7 5 (2.58%) SAP
7 5 (2.58%) Talend
8 4 (2.06%) BMC
9 3 (1.55%) Intapp
9 3 (1.55%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.03%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.03%) Google
10 2 (1.03%) VMware
11 1 (0.52%) Infor
11 1 (0.52%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.52%) Triple Point