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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 449 451
Rank change year-on-year +38 +2 -116
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 485 235 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.48% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.54% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 287 156 230
10th Percentile £38,772 £33,750 £45,680
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,188 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,149 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.93% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £88,750 £90,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £57,513
% change year-on-year +17.07% -10.89% +1.75%

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 85,252 43,434 61,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.68% 81.27%
Number of salaries quoted 58,899 24,470 34,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
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 23 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 23 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 +10 391 £70,000 +23.36% 524
UK excluding London +19 310 £60,000 +17.07% 310
Work from Home +44 190 £67,500 +12.50% 231
London -28 142 £85,000 +9.68% 274
North of England -2 84 £72,500 +33.64% 76
South East -15 72 £60,000 +101.68% 79
Northern Ireland - 63 - - 25
North West +5 47 £73,500 +17.60% 49
Midlands -55 36 £52,500 -2.21% 36
Yorkshire -19 29 £72,500 +27.75% 24
South West -65 24 £45,000 -20.70% 26
West Midlands -51 23 £51,875 -3.38% 22
East of England -22 19 £56,250 +2.27% 24
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 14
Scotland +16 9 £33,000 +49.13% 32
North East -67 8 £55,000 +57.14% 3
Wales -83 3 £55,395 +14.22% 12

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 (4.95%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.47%) Confluence
4 5 (1.03%) Camunda
5 4 (0.82%) CICS
6 3 (0.62%) Apache
6 3 (0.62%) IIS
6 3 (0.62%) WordPress
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.82%) Windchill
6 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.82%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.62%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.62%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.41%) Maximo
5 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.41%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.41%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.21%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 165 (34.02%) Azure
2 99 (20.41%) Power Platform
3 96 (19.79%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (12.37%) Dynamics 365
5 46 (9.48%) SaaS
6 43 (8.87%) AWS
7 40 (8.25%) GitHub
8 36 (7.42%) PowerApps
9 32 (6.60%) Azure Logic Apps
9 32 (6.60%) Power Automate
10 31 (6.39%) Entra ID
11 20 (4.12%) Serverless
12 18 (3.71%) Azure Key Vault
12 18 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (3.09%) GCP
14 14 (2.89%) Azure Functions
14 14 (2.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 12 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (2.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.44%) DNS
2 6 (1.24%) VPN
3 5 (1.03%) ATM
3 5 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.62%) NAS
4 3 (0.62%) SAN
5 1 (0.21%) DHCP
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.61%) Power BI
2 25 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.33%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.06%) Metadata
6 10 (2.06%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (1.65%) Spark SQL
9 6 (1.24%) Tableau
10 5 (1.03%) Db2
10 5 (1.03%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.82%) GIS
11 4 (0.82%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.82%) Redis
11 4 (0.82%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.62%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 58 (11.96%) JIRA
2 52 (10.72%) Git
3 17 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.06%) GitLab
5 6 (1.24%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.03%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.03%) JUnit
6 5 (1.03%) Mockito
7 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.82%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.41%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.41%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.21%) git-flow
9 1 (0.21%) mountebank
9 1 (0.21%) Postman
9 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.21%) Subversion
9 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 252 (51.96%) Social Skills
2 161 (33.20%) Finance
3 150 (30.93%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (12.16%) Presentation Skills
5 39 (8.04%) Law
5 39 (8.04%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (5.36%) Marketing
6 26 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (4.74%) Banking
8 22 (4.54%) Retail
9 18 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.89%) Investment Banking
10 14 (2.89%) Legal
11 13 (2.68%) Manufacturing
12 12 (2.47%) Front Office
12 12 (2.47%) Local Government
13 9 (1.86%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.86%) Military
14 8 (1.65%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 112 (23.09%) Senior
2 109 (22.47%) Analyst
3 68 (14.02%) ITSM Analyst
4 58 (11.96%) Lead
5 57 (11.75%) Senior Analyst
6 56 (11.55%) Support Analyst
7 51 (10.52%) Developer
8 47 (9.69%) Process Analyst
9 35 (7.22%) Senior Process Analyst
10 32 (6.60%) Senior Support Analyst
11 29 (5.98%) IT Manager
12 28 (5.77%) Service Manager
13 26 (5.36%) Consultant
14 24 (4.95%) Administrator
14 24 (4.95%) Service Analyst
15 23 (4.74%) Senior Developer
16 21 (4.33%) IT Services Manager
17 20 (4.12%) IT Analyst
17 20 (4.12%) Systems Administrator
18 18 (3.71%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (11.13%) REST
2 36 (7.42%) Terraform
3 26 (5.36%) Middleware
3 26 (5.36%) SOAP
4 19 (3.92%) Lightning Web Components
5 18 (3.71%) .NET
5 18 (3.71%) JSON
6 13 (2.68%) XML
7 12 (2.47%) EDI
8 11 (2.27%) PySpark
9 9 (1.86%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (1.65%) ARM Templates
10 8 (1.65%) React
10 8 (1.65%) YAML
11 7 (1.44%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.44%) OAuth
11 7 (1.44%) OAuth2
12 6 (1.24%) CSS
12 6 (1.24%) HTML
12 6 (1.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.96%) Management Information System
2 29 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
3 26 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.89%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.86%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.24%) Life Science
10 6 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.03%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.03%) CMDB
11 5 (1.03%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.82%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.82%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.82%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.36%) Linux
2 17 (3.51%) Windows
3 8 (1.65%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.03%) Unix
5 4 (0.82%) zOS
6 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.21%) Android
7 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (48.04%) Continuous Improvement
2 175 (36.08%) DevOps
3 171 (35.26%) ITIL
4 161 (33.20%) Change Management
5 146 (30.10%) CI/CD
6 133 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
7 129 (26.60%) Agile
8 128 (26.39%) Service Management
9 121 (24.95%) Decision-Making
10 120 (24.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 116 (23.92%) Project Delivery
12 114 (23.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 109 (22.47%) ITSM
14 103 (21.24%) Root Cause Analysis
15 97 (20.00%) Problem Management
16 90 (18.56%) Risk Management
17 88 (18.14%) User Experience
18 84 (17.32%) Acceptance Criteria
19 74 (15.26%) Collaborative Working
19 74 (15.26%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 91 (18.76%) SQL
2 50 (10.31%) Python
3 24 (4.95%) C#
4 21 (4.33%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.30%) Java
5 16 (3.30%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.89%) Apex Code
7 10 (2.06%) C++
8 8 (1.65%) Bash
8 8 (1.65%) COBOL
9 7 (1.44%) SOQL
9 7 (1.44%) SOSL
9 7 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.24%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.82%) JCL
11 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.62%) Bicep
12 3 (0.62%) C
12 3 (0.62%) Perl
12 3 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 119 (24.54%) Degree
2 48 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 37 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.51%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.09%) PMP
7 12 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.27%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.21%) CISA
12 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CISM
12 1 (0.21%) CRISC
12 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (15.05%) QA
2 43 (8.87%) Data Quality
3 30 (6.19%) GDPR
4 20 (4.12%) PMO
5 13 (2.68%) SLA
6 12 (2.47%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.47%) TickIT
7 9 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.65%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.82%) GRC
9 4 (0.82%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 4 (0.82%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.62%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.41%) GxP
11 2 (0.41%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.41%) SOC 3
System Software
1 16 (3.30%) Docker
2 14 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.82%) Firmware
5 3 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.62%) IAG
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.09%) Ansible
3 5 (1.03%) Grafana
4 4 (0.82%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.41%) Argo
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.41%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.21%) Packer
7 1 (0.21%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 127 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.45%) Salesforce
3 38 (7.84%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.95%) SAP
5 18 (3.71%) Oracle
6 17 (3.51%) Databricks
7 16 (3.30%) HP
8 13 (2.68%) Google
9 12 (2.47%) Workday
10 9 (1.86%) FIS
10 9 (1.86%) SunGard
11 8 (1.65%) VMware
12 7 (1.44%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.24%) Concur
13 6 (1.24%) LogicMonitor
14 5 (1.03%) Alteryx
14 5 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 5 (1.03%) iManage
14 5 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 5 (1.03%) NetApp