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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 468 426
Rank change year-on-year +73 -42 -102
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 512 217 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.44% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.49% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 279 144 234
10th Percentile £38,772 £32,500 £45,680
25th Percentile £51,225 £48,125 £52,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £84,750 £81,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £96,375 £90,001
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,450 £49,800 £57,500
% change year-on-year +19.38% -13.39% +1.72%

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 86,353 44,239 60,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.09% 81.92%
Number of salaries quoted 59,227 24,477 32,914
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
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 5 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 5 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 +36 389 £70,000 +17.65% 557
UK excluding London +66 340 £59,450 +19.38% 286
Work from Home +49 188 £67,500 +8.00% 232
London -32 145 £83,000 +7.10% 287
Northern Ireland - 97 - - 4
North of England +1 79 £70,000 +29.03% 74
South East -7 72 £60,000 +118.18% 84
North West -1 44 £70,000 +12.00% 46
Midlands -43 37 £52,500 -2.21% 40
Yorkshire -22 28 £63,750 +6.25% 24
South West -58 25 £54,000 -4.84% 33
West Midlands -41 24 £51,250 -4.54% 24
East of England -20 17 £56,250 +2.27% 19
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 16
Scotland +7 9 £33,000 +49.13% 21
North East -60 7 £55,000 +57.14% 4
Wales -70 4 £85,198 +75.66% 11

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 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.15%) Confluence
3 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.98%) Apache
4 5 (0.98%) Camunda
5 4 (0.78%) CICS
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.59%) IIS
6 3 (0.59%) WordPress
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.34%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.78%) Windchill
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.17%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.59%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.59%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.39%) Maximo
5 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.39%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Actimize
6 1 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 157 (30.66%) Azure
2 95 (18.55%) Power Platform
3 92 (17.97%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (9.96%) Dynamics 365
5 45 (8.79%) SaaS
6 42 (8.20%) AWS
7 40 (7.81%) GitHub
8 34 (6.64%) PowerApps
9 30 (5.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 30 (5.86%) Power Automate
10 27 (5.27%) Entra ID
11 19 (3.71%) Serverless
12 18 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (2.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 13 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (2.34%) Azure Functions
16 12 (2.34%) GCP
16 12 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.37%) DNS
2 5 (0.98%) ATM
2 5 (0.98%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.98%) VPN
3 3 (0.59%) NAS
3 3 (0.59%) SAN
4 1 (0.20%) DHCP
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.50%) Power BI
2 24 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.10%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.95%) Metadata
6 10 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.17%) Spark SQL
9 5 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.98%) Db2
9 5 (0.98%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.98%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.78%) GIS
10 4 (0.78%) Redis
10 4 (0.78%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (10.74%) JIRA
2 51 (9.96%) Git
3 16 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.34%) GitLab
5 6 (1.17%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.98%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.98%) JUnit
6 5 (0.98%) Mockito
7 4 (0.78%) ChangeMan
8 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.20%) git-flow
10 1 (0.20%) mountebank
10 1 (0.20%) Postman
10 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.20%) Subversion
10 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 281 (54.88%) Social Skills
2 180 (35.16%) Analytical Skills
3 166 (32.42%) Finance
4 95 (18.55%) Presentation Skills
5 43 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 36 (7.03%) Law
7 27 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (5.27%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (4.30%) Banking
9 21 (4.10%) Marketing
10 19 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (3.52%) Retail
12 14 (2.73%) Investment Banking
13 12 (2.34%) Front Office
13 12 (2.34%) Legal
13 12 (2.34%) Local Government
13 12 (2.34%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.95%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.95%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 142 (27.73%) Analyst
2 129 (25.20%) Senior
3 104 (20.31%) ITSM Analyst
4 81 (15.82%) Senior Analyst
5 79 (15.43%) Support Analyst
6 70 (13.67%) Process Analyst
7 53 (10.35%) Lead
8 47 (9.18%) Senior Process Analyst
9 46 (8.98%) Developer
10 43 (8.40%) Senior Support Analyst
11 37 (7.23%) Service Analyst
12 33 (6.45%) IT Analyst
13 30 (5.86%) IT Manager
14 28 (5.47%) Service Manager
15 27 (5.27%) Service Management Analyst
16 22 (4.30%) Consultant
16 22 (4.30%) Release Manager
17 21 (4.10%) Administrator
17 21 (4.10%) IT Services Manager
18 19 (3.71%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.98%) REST
2 33 (6.45%) Terraform
3 23 (4.49%) Middleware
4 22 (4.30%) SOAP
5 21 (4.10%) .NET
6 18 (3.52%) Lightning Web Components
7 11 (2.15%) JSON
8 9 (1.76%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (1.76%) PySpark
8 9 (1.76%) XML
9 8 (1.56%) EDI
10 7 (1.37%) ASP.NET
10 7 (1.37%) OAuth
10 7 (1.37%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.37%) YAML
11 6 (1.17%) JWT
11 6 (1.17%) OpenID
11 6 (1.17%) React
11 6 (1.17%) Spring
11 6 (1.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.13%) Management Information System
2 27 (5.27%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (3.32%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.34%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.76%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.17%) Life Science
11 6 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.98%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.98%) CMDB
12 5 (0.98%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.78%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.78%) Robotics
13 4 (0.78%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.88%) Linux
2 18 (3.52%) Windows
3 8 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.98%) Unix
5 4 (0.78%) zOS
6 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (55.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 209 (40.82%) ITIL
3 197 (38.48%) Change Management
4 165 (32.23%) DevOps
5 163 (31.84%) Service Management
6 155 (30.27%) Project Delivery
7 154 (30.08%) Decision-Making
8 150 (29.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 142 (27.73%) ITSM
10 139 (27.15%) Root Cause Analysis
11 137 (26.76%) CI/CD
12 133 (25.98%) Problem Management
13 131 (25.59%) Agile
13 131 (25.59%) Problem-Solving
14 129 (25.20%) Risk Management
15 126 (24.61%) User Experience
16 124 (24.22%) Stakeholder Management
17 119 (23.24%) Acceptance Criteria
18 111 (21.68%) Logistics
19 104 (20.31%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 84 (16.41%) SQL
2 45 (8.79%) Python
3 26 (5.08%) C#
4 17 (3.32%) JavaScript
4 17 (3.32%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.73%) Apex Code
5 14 (2.73%) Java
6 10 (1.95%) C++
7 8 (1.56%) COBOL
8 7 (1.37%) Bash
8 7 (1.37%) SOQL
8 7 (1.37%) SOSL
8 7 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.98%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.78%) JCL
10 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.59%) Bicep
11 3 (0.59%) C
11 3 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 153 (29.88%) Degree
2 46 (8.98%) Security Cleared
3 36 (7.03%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.52%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.13%) PMP
6 12 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.20%) CCSK
13 1 (0.20%) CRISC
13 1 (0.20%) CSPO
13 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (13.67%) QA
2 41 (8.01%) Data Quality
3 27 (5.27%) GDPR
4 18 (3.52%) PMO
5 13 (2.54%) SLA
6 10 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.56%) Def Stans
8 8 (1.56%) TickIT
9 5 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.78%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.59%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.39%) GxP
12 2 (0.39%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.39%) SOC 3
System Software
1 17 (3.32%) Docker
2 12 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.78%) Firmware
5 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.59%) IAG
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.54%) Ansible
3 5 (0.98%) Grafana
4 4 (0.78%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.39%) Argo
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.39%) SCCM
6 2 (0.39%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 117 (22.85%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.81%) Salesforce
3 36 (7.03%) ServiceNow
4 25 (4.88%) SAP
5 17 (3.32%) Oracle
6 16 (3.13%) HP
7 15 (2.93%) Databricks
7 15 (2.93%) Workday
8 12 (2.34%) Google
9 9 (1.76%) FIS
9 9 (1.76%) SunGard
10 8 (1.56%) VMware
11 7 (1.37%) Concur
11 7 (1.37%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.37%) Pega
12 6 (1.17%) iManage
13 5 (0.98%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.98%) LogicMonitor
13 5 (0.98%) NetApp
13 5 (0.98%) Okta