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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 406 401
Rank change year-on-year -80 -5 -41
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 181 324 480
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.65% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.71% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 120 195 360
10th Percentile £26,250 £50,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,079 £53,300 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £94,125 £93,778 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +1.69% +2.91%

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 53,358 45,796 65,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.56% 92.23% 88.32%
Number of salaries quoted 31,921 22,329 51,135
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 15 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 14 February 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 -67 170 £67,500 +8.00% 70
London -12 91 £72,500 +15.08% 34
UK excluding London -76 78 £59,450 -0.92% 49
Work from Home -11 68 £59,450 -5.26% 33
South East +5 21 £27,500 -54.17% 25
Midlands -39 17 £70,000 +21.74% 8
West Midlands -25 14 £70,000 +21.74% 6
South West -31 14 £62,500 -6.46% 7
North of England -17 13 £60,000 -11.11% 6
East of England +18 9 £59,450 -15.07% 2
North West +3 6 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Yorkshire -36 6 £60,000 +14.29%
Scotland -11 5 £22,129 -64.80% 2
East Midlands -20 3 £75,000 +87.50% 2
North East - 1 £82,500 - 1

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 13 (7.18%) WebSphere
2 12 (6.63%) Tomcat
2 12 (6.63%) WebSphere Application Server
3 11 (6.08%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.87%) Confluence
5 5 (2.76%) CMS
6 3 (1.66%) Apache
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.55%) IIS
8 1 (0.55%) JBoss
8 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 14 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (6.08%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.55%) Maya
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.76%) Remedy ITSM
1 5 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.66%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.66%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.10%) Endur
3 2 (1.10%) EuroRunner
3 2 (1.10%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.10%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.55%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.55%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (31.49%) Azure
2 38 (20.99%) AWS
3 29 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (6.63%) GCP
4 12 (6.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 11 (6.08%) Power Platform
6 10 (5.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 9 (4.97%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.87%) Serverless
9 6 (3.31%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.31%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.76%) dbt
10 5 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.76%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.76%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.21%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.63%) SSL
2 6 (3.31%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.55%) Broadband
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
3 1 (0.55%) Intranet
3 1 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.60%) PostgreSQL
1 21 (11.60%) Relational Database
2 18 (9.94%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (6.63%) DB2
3 12 (6.63%) MongoDB
3 12 (6.63%) NoSQL
4 11 (6.08%) DynamoDB
5 10 (5.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (4.97%) Apache Cassandra
6 9 (4.97%) Big Data
6 9 (4.97%) DataStage
6 9 (4.97%) Hadoop
6 9 (4.97%) MySQL
6 9 (4.97%) Neo4j
6 9 (4.97%) Pentaho
6 9 (4.97%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.31%) Metadata
8 5 (2.76%) Power BI
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (9.94%) JIRA
2 13 (7.18%) Git
3 9 (4.97%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.10%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.10%) JMeter
4 2 (1.10%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.10%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.55%) Ant
5 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.55%) Maven
5 1 (0.55%) NUnit
5 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.55%) Subversion
5 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 76 (41.99%) Social Skills
2 70 (38.67%) Finance
3 36 (19.89%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.26%) Banking
5 18 (9.94%) Law
6 14 (7.73%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.87%) Marketing
8 6 (3.31%) Front Office
9 5 (2.76%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.21%) Legal
11 3 (1.66%) Retail
12 2 (1.10%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.10%) Games
12 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.55%) Back Office
13 1 (0.55%) Police
13 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (19.89%) Lead
2 30 (16.57%) Analyst
3 24 (13.26%) Applications Support
3 24 (13.26%) Senior
4 21 (11.60%) Support Analyst
5 16 (8.84%) Developer
6 13 (7.18%) IT Analyst
7 12 (6.63%) Linux Support
7 12 (6.63%) Technical Support
8 11 (6.08%) IT Support
8 11 (6.08%) IT Support Analyst
8 11 (6.08%) Technical Analyst
8 11 (6.08%) Technical Support Analyst
9 10 (5.52%) IT Manager
9 10 (5.52%) Service Manager
10 9 (4.97%) Applications Support Analyst
10 9 (4.97%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (4.97%) Software Manager
11 8 (4.42%) Technical Leader
11 8 (4.42%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.26%) .NET
2 12 (6.63%) LAPP Stack
2 12 (6.63%) LDAP
2 12 (6.63%) WebSphere MQ
3 11 (6.08%) React
4 9 (4.97%) .NET Core
5 6 (3.31%) REST
6 4 (2.21%) CSS
6 4 (2.21%) HTML
6 4 (2.21%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.66%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.66%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.66%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.66%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.66%) OAuth
7 3 (1.66%) PySpark
8 2 (1.10%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.10%) Next.js
8 2 (1.10%) Pandas
8 2 (1.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.23%) Management Information System
2 18 (9.94%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.73%) Data Structures
4 13 (7.18%) Onboarding
5 12 (6.63%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (6.63%) Reinsurance
6 9 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.76%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.21%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.66%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.66%) Derivative
10 3 (1.66%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.66%) Equities
10 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.10%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.36%) Windows
2 16 (8.84%) Linux
3 13 (7.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (7.18%) Unix
4 8 (4.42%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.15%) Agile
2 55 (30.39%) DevOps
3 52 (28.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 48 (26.52%) CI/CD
5 47 (25.97%) ITIL
6 45 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (20.99%) Change Management
8 36 (19.89%) Roadmaps
9 30 (16.57%) Service Management
9 30 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (13.26%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (12.71%) User Acceptance Testing
12 22 (12.15%) Analytics
12 22 (12.15%) ITSM
12 22 (12.15%) SDLC
13 21 (11.60%) ETL
14 20 (11.05%) Incident Management
14 20 (11.05%) Software Engineering
15 19 (10.50%) AI
15 19 (10.50%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 53 (29.28%) SQL
2 35 (19.34%) Python
3 15 (8.29%) Java
4 12 (6.63%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.08%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.42%) C#
7 6 (3.31%) VB.NET
8 5 (2.76%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.66%) Bicep
10 2 (1.10%) Bash
10 2 (1.10%) PHP
10 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.55%) ABAP
11 1 (0.55%) Go
11 1 (0.55%) Groovy
11 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (13.26%) Degree
2 17 (9.39%) ITIL Certification
3 14 (7.73%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.76%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.76%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.21%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.66%) MBA
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.10%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.10%) PMP
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.68%) QA
2 16 (8.84%) SLA
3 6 (3.31%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.66%) PMO
6 2 (1.10%) GAAP
6 2 (1.10%) IFRS
6 2 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.55%) GDPR
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.55%) NIST
7 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.76%) Terraform
3 3 (1.66%) Ansible
4 2 (1.10%) Grafana
4 2 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.55%) Argo
5 1 (0.55%) Control-M
5 1 (0.55%) Kibana
5 1 (0.55%) Podman
5 1 (0.55%) Puppet
5 1 (0.55%) SCCM
5 1 (0.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (18.23%) ServiceNow
2 30 (16.57%) Microsoft
3 23 (12.71%) Salesforce
4 16 (8.84%) Oracle
5 14 (7.73%) IBM
6 12 (6.63%) Red Hat
7 9 (4.97%) Informatica
7 9 (4.97%) Talend
8 6 (3.31%) SAP
9 5 (2.76%) Remedy
10 4 (2.21%) BMC
10 4 (2.21%) Databricks
11 3 (1.66%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.10%) Conga
12 2 (1.10%) ION Trading
12 2 (1.10%) Trayport
13 1 (0.55%) Gemalto
13 1 (0.55%) Google
13 1 (0.55%) Sitecore
13 1 (0.55%) Triple Point