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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 409 328
Rank change year-on-year -51 -81 +38
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 197 392 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.58% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.70% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 130 251 381
10th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,813 £52,803 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £94,125 £85,000 £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £56,525 £56,525
% change year-on-year -14.20% - +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 45,394 56,021 48,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 83.52% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,423 29,005 37,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,128 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,475
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -43 180 £60,000 - 147
UK excluding London -33 106 £48,500 -14.20% 90
London +7 86 £82,500 +26.92% 67
Work from Home +35 83 £68,750 +12.24% 70
South East -2 36 £27,500 -51.35% 21
Midlands +1 22 £42,500 -24.44% 13
North of England +38 21 £52,500 - 22
West Midlands -4 20 £42,500 -26.09% 5
South West +21 9 £53,750 -22.10% 10
Wales +12 9 £48,500 -11.82% 1
Yorkshire 0 9 £60,000 +14.29% 4
North West +19 7 £77,500 +55.00% 18
Scotland -4 6 £22,129 -65.96% 6
East of England +16 5 £55,000 -6.38% 14
North East - 5 £35,000 -
East Midlands +21 2 £70,000 +27.27% 8

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 (9.64%) WebSphere
2 16 (8.12%) Tomcat
2 16 (8.12%) WebSphere Application Server
3 14 (7.11%) IIS
4 12 (6.09%) Confluence
5 10 (5.08%) Apache Spark
6 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (4.06%) SharePoint
7 7 (3.55%) Apache
8 5 (2.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (2.03%) CMS
10 3 (1.52%) JBoss
11 2 (1.02%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.51%) nginx
12 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (10.66%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (6.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (6.60%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (2.03%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.02%) Endur
3 2 (1.02%) EuroRunner
3 2 (1.02%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.02%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.02%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.02%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.02%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.51%) Magento
4 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.37%) AWS
2 45 (22.84%) Azure
3 19 (9.64%) GitHub
4 18 (9.14%) SaaS
5 14 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.08%) GCP
6 10 (5.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 10 (5.08%) Serverless
7 9 (4.57%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.55%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (3.55%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.05%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.05%) PowerApps
9 6 (3.05%) Route 53
9 6 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.66%) SSL
2 7 (3.55%) SAN
2 7 (3.55%) WAN
3 6 (3.05%) Internet
4 5 (2.54%) LAN
4 5 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.54%) VoIP
5 2 (1.02%) Firewall
5 2 (1.02%) Network Security
5 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.02%) VPN
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.51%) FTP
6 1 (0.51%) HTTP
6 1 (0.51%) Intranet
6 1 (0.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (21.83%) SQL Server
2 23 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.12%) DB2
4 14 (7.11%) MySQL
5 11 (5.58%) MongoDB
5 11 (5.58%) NoSQL
5 11 (5.58%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.08%) DynamoDB
7 8 (4.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (3.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 7 (3.55%) Big Data
8 7 (3.55%) Data Hub
8 7 (3.55%) DataStage
8 7 (3.55%) Hadoop
8 7 (3.55%) Neo4j
8 7 (3.55%) Pentaho
8 7 (3.55%) RDBMS
8 7 (3.55%) SQL CLR
8 7 (3.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (15.74%) JIRA
2 10 (5.08%) Git
3 4 (2.03%) Artifactory
3 4 (2.03%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.03%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.52%) Ant
4 3 (1.52%) Maven
4 3 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.02%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.02%) JMeter
5 2 (1.02%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.02%) NeoLoad
5 2 (1.02%) NUnit
5 2 (1.02%) Selenium
5 2 (1.02%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.51%) NSubstitute
6 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.51%) PhpStorm
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 88 (44.67%) Social Skills
2 85 (43.15%) Finance
3 36 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (13.71%) Banking
5 19 (9.64%) Investment Banking
6 16 (8.12%) Law
7 11 (5.58%) Front Office
8 10 (5.08%) Back Office
8 10 (5.08%) Retail
9 7 (3.55%) Local Government
10 6 (3.05%) Legal
11 4 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.02%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.02%) Marketing
12 2 (1.02%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.51%) Police
13 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (19.29%) Analyst
2 36 (18.27%) Applications Support
3 29 (14.72%) Support Analyst
4 25 (12.69%) Lead
5 20 (10.15%) Senior
5 20 (10.15%) Technical Support
6 17 (8.63%) IT Analyst
7 15 (7.61%) Applications Support Analyst
7 15 (7.61%) Developer
7 15 (7.61%) Linux Support
7 15 (7.61%) Support Engineer
8 13 (6.60%) IT Support
8 13 (6.60%) IT Support Analyst
8 13 (6.60%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (6.60%) Technical Support Analyst
9 11 (5.58%) Infrastructure Support
10 10 (5.08%) IT Manager
10 10 (5.08%) Support Specialist
10 10 (5.08%) Unix Support
11 9 (4.57%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.71%) .NET
2 16 (8.12%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (8.12%) LDAP
2 16 (8.12%) WebSphere MQ
3 14 (7.11%) .NET Framework
4 10 (5.08%) Entity Framework
5 9 (4.57%) .NET Core
5 9 (4.57%) React
6 8 (4.06%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.06%) HTML
6 8 (4.06%) REST
7 7 (3.55%) CSS
7 7 (3.55%) Dapper ORM
8 5 (2.54%) Middleware
9 4 (2.03%) RESTful
10 3 (1.52%) CSS3
10 3 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.52%) HTML5
10 3 (1.52%) Kafka
10 3 (1.52%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 47 (23.86%) Management Information System
2 20 (10.15%) Onboarding
3 16 (8.12%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (6.09%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.06%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.06%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.55%) Clustering
6 7 (3.55%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.55%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.02%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 43 (21.83%) Windows
2 25 (12.69%) Linux
3 19 (9.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (8.63%) Unix
5 16 (8.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.04%) Agile
2 67 (34.01%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (33.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (27.41%) ITIL
5 47 (23.86%) CI/CD
6 42 (21.32%) Change Management
6 42 (21.32%) DevOps
7 32 (16.24%) Migration
8 30 (15.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (14.21%) Service Management
10 26 (13.20%) Data Migration
11 25 (12.69%) Analytics
12 24 (12.18%) Roadmaps
13 21 (10.66%) Scrum
13 21 (10.66%) Software Engineering
14 20 (10.15%) User Acceptance Testing
15 19 (9.64%) Decision-Making
15 19 (9.64%) High Availability
15 19 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 18 (9.14%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.40%) SQL
2 41 (20.81%) Python
3 24 (12.18%) C#
4 16 (8.12%) Java
5 14 (7.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.03%) Bash
6 4 (2.03%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.03%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.52%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.52%) Groovy
7 3 (1.52%) PHP
7 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.02%) C++
8 2 (1.02%) R
9 1 (0.51%) Bicep
9 1 (0.51%) Go
9 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.51%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (16.75%) Degree
2 18 (9.14%) AWS Certification
2 18 (9.14%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (3.55%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.05%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.02%) CCSP
7 2 (1.02%) CISA
7 2 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.02%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.51%) CCSK
8 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (16.75%) SLA
2 22 (11.17%) QA
3 6 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.02%) GAAP
5 2 (1.02%) IFRS
5 2 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.08%) Active Directory
1 10 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (4.06%) Docker
3 2 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.51%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 8 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.05%) Ansible
3 4 (2.03%) Terraform
4 3 (1.52%) Podman
4 3 (1.52%) Puppet
5 2 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (1.02%) SCOM
6 1 (0.51%) Control-M
6 1 (0.51%) Kibana
6 1 (0.51%) SCCM
6 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (29.44%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.72%) ServiceNow
3 24 (12.18%) Oracle
4 23 (11.68%) Salesforce
5 19 (9.64%) IBM
6 16 (8.12%) Red Hat
7 11 (5.58%) VMware
8 7 (3.55%) Informatica
8 7 (3.55%) Talend
9 5 (2.54%) SAP
10 3 (1.52%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.02%) BMC
11 2 (1.02%) Cisco
11 2 (1.02%) Dell
11 2 (1.02%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.02%) Juniper
11 2 (1.02%) Lotus
11 2 (1.02%) Nimble Storage
11 2 (1.02%) Remedy
11 2 (1.02%) Sybase