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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 433 478
Rank change year-on-year -30 +45 -87
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 285 249 486
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.61% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 200 159 357
10th Percentile £41,585 £48,600 £37,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,688 £50,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £103,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £59,250
% change year-on-year +12.50% +1.27% +3.04%

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 67,552 41,143 88,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.63% 82.27%
Number of salaries quoted 46,362 21,911 62,510
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,556
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -47 259 £72,500 +11.54% 101
UK excluding London -35 154 £67,500 +12.50% 64
Work from Home +15 106 £70,000 - 47
London -31 100 £75,000 +11.11% 47
North of England -6 52 £73,500 +33.64% 21
South East -9 41 £57,303 -6.44% 18
North West +22 26 £73,500 +13.08% 14
Yorkshire -22 23 £82,500 +135.71% 7
East of England -4 20 £59,450 -15.07% 9
South West -56 20 £62,500 -3.29% 9
Midlands -33 18 £75,000 +39.70% 6
West Midlands -39 14 £75,000 +39.70% 2
East Midlands -20 3 £75,000 - 4
North East -38 3 £77,500 +40.91%
Wales -44 2 £55,395 -7.68% 1
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 11 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.46%) Confluence
3 6 (2.11%) IIS
4 4 (1.40%) CICS
5 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.70%) Apache
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.16%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.40%) Windchill
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.70%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.35%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 116 (40.70%) Azure
2 74 (25.96%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (18.25%) Power Platform
4 33 (11.58%) Dynamics 365
5 24 (8.42%) Entra ID
6 23 (8.07%) AWS
7 22 (7.72%) SaaS
8 21 (7.37%) GitHub
9 20 (7.02%) Azure Logic Apps
10 17 (5.96%) Power Automate
11 16 (5.61%) PowerApps
12 14 (4.91%) Boomi
12 14 (4.91%) GCP
13 12 (4.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 12 (4.21%) Serverless
14 10 (3.51%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.16%) Azure Functions
15 9 (3.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.40%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.35%) Broadband
2 1 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.35%) DNS
2 1 (0.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.58%) Power BI
2 14 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (4.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (3.86%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.16%) Spark SQL
4 9 (3.16%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.75%) Metadata
5 5 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.40%) Db2
6 4 (1.40%) MySQL
6 4 (1.40%) Tableau
7 3 (1.05%) Big Data
7 3 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.05%) Looker
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.70%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.70%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 39 (13.68%) JIRA
2 20 (7.02%) Git
3 13 (4.56%) Eclipse
4 12 (4.21%) GitLab
5 9 (3.16%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.40%) ChangeMan
7 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.70%) Postman
7 2 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.35%) JMeter
8 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.35%) Selenium
8 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 113 (39.65%) Social Skills
2 91 (31.93%) Finance
3 45 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.02%) Law
5 19 (6.67%) Marketing
6 16 (5.61%) Banking
7 15 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.26%) Retail
8 14 (4.91%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.21%) Legal
10 11 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.86%) Local Government
11 9 (3.16%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.46%) Legal Technology
13 6 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.40%) Environmental Health
14 4 (1.40%) Military
15 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
15 3 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 54 (18.95%) Lead
2 52 (18.25%) Senior
3 39 (13.68%) Developer
4 29 (10.18%) Senior Developer
5 23 (8.07%) Analyst
6 22 (7.72%) Administrator
7 21 (7.37%) Consultant
8 16 (5.61%) Systems Administrator
9 15 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (5.26%) Release Manager
9 15 (5.26%) Software Manager
10 13 (4.56%) Applications Support
11 12 (4.21%) Architect
11 12 (4.21%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.21%) Management Consultant
11 12 (4.21%) Salesforce Developer
12 11 (3.86%) Programme Management Office Consultant
12 11 (3.86%) Programme Office Consultant
12 11 (3.86%) Software Engineering Manager
12 11 (3.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.33%) REST
2 23 (8.07%) Middleware
2 23 (8.07%) SOAP
3 18 (6.32%) React
4 16 (5.61%) JSON
5 14 (4.91%) .NET
5 14 (4.91%) Lightning Web Components
6 12 (4.21%) EDI
6 12 (4.21%) XML
7 11 (3.86%) PySpark
8 9 (3.16%) ARM Templates
8 9 (3.16%) CSS
8 9 (3.16%) HTML
9 7 (2.46%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.11%) Visualforce
11 5 (1.75%) YAML
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.70%) Swagger
13 1 (0.35%) ASP.NET Core
13 1 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 24 (8.42%) Data Structures
3 21 (7.37%) Management Information System
4 18 (6.32%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.91%) Cloud Native
6 13 (4.56%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.16%) Reinsurance
8 8 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.46%) Culture of Ownership
9 7 (2.46%) Podcast
10 4 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.40%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.40%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.40%) VSAM
11 3 (1.05%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.70%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.56%) Windows
2 8 (2.81%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.40%) Linux
3 4 (1.40%) zOS
4 3 (1.05%) Unix
5 2 (0.70%) Android
5 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (48.07%) DevOps
2 103 (36.14%) CI/CD
3 98 (34.39%) Agile
4 79 (27.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (22.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 58 (20.35%) ITIL
8 54 (18.95%) Roadmaps
9 51 (17.89%) Incident Management
10 45 (15.79%) Change Management
11 42 (14.74%) Decision-Making
11 42 (14.74%) Integration Patterns
12 40 (14.04%) Scrum
13 38 (13.33%) AI
14 35 (12.28%) Data Modelling
14 35 (12.28%) ERP
14 35 (12.28%) Technical Leadership
15 34 (11.93%) ITSM
16 33 (11.58%) Service Management
16 33 (11.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (29.82%) SQL
2 33 (11.58%) Python
3 17 (5.96%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 12 (4.21%) Apex Code
6 10 (3.51%) SOQL
7 9 (3.16%) SOSL
8 6 (2.11%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.40%) Bash
9 4 (1.40%) COBOL
9 4 (1.40%) Java
9 4 (1.40%) JCL
9 4 (1.40%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.35%) ABAP
11 1 (0.35%) Groovy
11 1 (0.35%) Korn
11 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 44 (15.44%) Degree
2 16 (5.61%) PMI Certification
2 16 (5.61%) PMP
3 15 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.21%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.05%) MBA
10 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CCSK
11 1 (0.35%) CISA
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (23.86%) QA
2 29 (10.18%) Data Quality
3 26 (9.12%) GDPR
4 20 (7.02%) PMO
5 13 (4.56%) GRC
6 12 (4.21%) Accessibility
6 12 (4.21%) TickIT
7 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.75%) SLA
8 4 (1.40%) Def Stans
8 4 (1.40%) ISO 9000
8 4 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 4 (1.40%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (4.21%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.16%) Docker
3 4 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.05%) IAG
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.35%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 29 (10.18%) Terraform
2 18 (6.32%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.56%) Ansible
4 4 (1.40%) CA Endevor
5 3 (1.05%) Grafana
6 2 (0.70%) Argo
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.35%) Packer
7 1 (0.35%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.35%) SCCM
7 1 (0.35%) SCOM
7 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (24.21%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.28%) Salesforce
3 32 (11.23%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.61%) Databricks
5 12 (4.21%) SAP
6 9 (3.16%) Oracle
7 6 (2.11%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (1.75%) Google
9 4 (1.40%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.40%) VMware
10 3 (1.05%) Concur
10 3 (1.05%) Dell
10 3 (1.05%) Intapp
11 2 (0.70%) Ariba
11 2 (0.70%) Cisco
11 2 (0.70%) Citrix
11 2 (0.70%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.70%) Infor
11 2 (0.70%) Isilon
11 2 (0.70%) Remedy