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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 445 472
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 -86
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 319 244 492
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.53% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.57% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 227 157 358
10th Percentile £41,585 £45,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,175 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,627 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% +5.08% -1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £101,000 £97,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £56,745 £59,000
% change year-on-year +18.95% -3.82% +2.61%

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 70,675 42,514 86,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.44% 91.57% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,811 23,148 61,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 30 June 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 30 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 -24 286 £70,000 +8.31% 106
UK excluding London -23 169 £67,500 +18.95% 74
Work from Home +25 129 £70,000 +8.31% 45
London -29 114 £75,000 +11.11% 47
North of England -17 58 £73,500 +33.64% 19
South East -20 42 £57,303 -4.50% 25
North West +19 30 £73,500 +17.60% 12
Yorkshire -12 25 £72,500 +107.14% 6
South West -61 22 £62,750 -2.90% 9
East of England -7 20 £59,450 -15.07% 5
Midlands -50 20 £70,000 +30.38% 16
West Midlands -41 14 £58,094 +8.21% 11
East Midlands -24 5 £70,000 - 5
Scotland +16 4 £33,000 -30.22% 3
North East -48 3 £77,500 +40.91% 1
Wales -48 2 £55,395 -7.68%
Northern Ireland - 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 11 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.13%) Confluence
3 7 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.88%) IIS
5 4 (1.25%) CICS
6 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.63%) Apache
7 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.63%) WordPress
8 1 (0.31%) Camunda
8 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.63%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.63%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.63%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 129 (40.44%) Azure
2 82 (25.71%) Azure DevOps
3 60 (18.81%) Power Platform
4 42 (13.17%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (10.03%) SaaS
6 26 (8.15%) AWS
7 25 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 23 (7.21%) Entra ID
9 22 (6.90%) GitHub
9 22 (6.90%) Power Automate
10 18 (5.64%) PowerApps
11 15 (4.70%) GCP
12 14 (4.39%) Boomi
12 14 (4.39%) Serverless
13 11 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 10 (3.13%) Azure Functions
14 10 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (2.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.31%) Broadband
2 1 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.31%) DNS
2 1 (0.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.29%) Power BI
2 15 (4.70%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 14 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (2.82%) Spark SQL
6 8 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.51%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.57%) Tableau
8 4 (1.25%) Db2
8 4 (1.25%) MySQL
9 3 (0.94%) Big Data
9 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.94%) Looker
9 3 (0.94%) Metadata
9 3 (0.94%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.63%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.63%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 49 (15.36%) JIRA
2 24 (7.52%) Git
3 12 (3.76%) Eclipse
3 12 (3.76%) GitLab
3 12 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.57%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.25%) ChangeMan
6 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.63%) Postman
6 2 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.31%) git-flow
7 1 (0.31%) Mockito
7 1 (0.31%) mountebank
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.31%) Selenium
7 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 133 (41.69%) Social Skills
2 101 (31.66%) Finance
3 50 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.52%) Law
5 23 (7.21%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.96%) Marketing
7 17 (5.33%) Banking
7 17 (5.33%) Legal
7 17 (5.33%) Retail
8 15 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.45%) Local Government
11 10 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (3.13%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.82%) Legal Technology
13 6 (1.88%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.57%) Military
15 4 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.25%) Environmental Health
16 3 (0.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 56 (17.55%) Lead
2 53 (16.61%) Senior
3 42 (13.17%) Developer
4 29 (9.09%) Analyst
4 29 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 25 (7.84%) Administrator
6 22 (6.90%) Consultant
7 19 (5.96%) Systems Administrator
8 16 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (5.02%) Release Manager
9 14 (4.39%) Applications Support
9 14 (4.39%) IT Manager
9 14 (4.39%) Software Manager
10 12 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (3.76%) Management Consultant
10 12 (3.76%) Salesforce Developer
11 11 (3.45%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.45%) Programme Office Consultant
11 11 (3.45%) Service Manager
11 11 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (13.48%) REST
2 24 (7.52%) Middleware
3 23 (7.21%) SOAP
4 19 (5.96%) React
5 17 (5.33%) .NET
6 16 (5.02%) JSON
7 14 (4.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 12 (3.76%) EDI
8 12 (3.76%) XML
9 10 (3.13%) PySpark
10 9 (2.82%) ARM Templates
10 9 (2.82%) CSS
10 9 (2.82%) HTML
11 6 (1.88%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.88%) Visualforce
12 5 (1.57%) YAML
13 3 (0.94%) ASP.NET
13 3 (0.94%) ASP.NET Core
13 3 (0.94%) Swagger
14 2 (0.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.15%) Product Ownership
2 24 (7.52%) Data Structures
2 24 (7.52%) Management Information System
2 24 (7.52%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.70%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.39%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.51%) Reinsurance
7 7 (2.19%) Culture of Ownership
7 7 (2.19%) Podcast
8 4 (1.25%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.25%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.25%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.25%) VSAM
9 3 (0.94%) CMDB
9 3 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.45%) Windows
2 6 (1.88%) Linux
2 6 (1.88%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.25%) zOS
4 3 (0.94%) Unix
5 2 (0.63%) Android
5 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (45.45%) DevOps
2 113 (35.42%) CI/CD
3 111 (34.80%) Agile
4 101 (31.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 85 (26.65%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (26.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 72 (22.57%) ITIL
8 61 (19.12%) Change Management
9 58 (18.18%) Roadmaps
10 54 (16.93%) Incident Management
11 47 (14.73%) Decision-Making
12 46 (14.42%) Scrum
13 42 (13.17%) ERP
13 42 (13.17%) Integration Patterns
13 42 (13.17%) ITSM
14 38 (11.91%) AI
14 38 (11.91%) Test Automation
15 37 (11.60%) Service Management
16 36 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
17 34 (10.66%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 91 (28.53%) SQL
2 35 (10.97%) Python
3 22 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.76%) Apex Code
6 10 (3.13%) SOQL
7 9 (2.82%) SOSL
8 6 (1.88%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.57%) Java
9 5 (1.57%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.25%) Bash
10 4 (1.25%) COBOL
10 4 (1.25%) JCL
11 3 (0.94%) C#
12 2 (0.63%) C++
12 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.63%) PHP
12 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.31%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 47 (14.73%) Degree
2 19 (5.96%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.64%) PMI Certification
4 17 (5.33%) PMP
5 15 (4.70%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.57%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.31%) CCSK
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (22.57%) QA
2 33 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 28 (8.78%) GDPR
4 21 (6.58%) PMO
5 13 (4.08%) Accessibility
5 13 (4.08%) GRC
6 12 (3.76%) TickIT
7 7 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (2.19%) SLA
8 5 (1.57%) Def Stans
8 5 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.25%) ISO 9000
9 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 4 (1.25%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.13%) Docker
3 5 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.94%) IAG
5 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.31%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 31 (9.72%) Terraform
2 18 (5.64%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.70%) Ansible
4 4 (1.25%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.94%) Grafana
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.63%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.31%) Argo
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.31%) Packer
7 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.31%) SCCM
7 1 (0.31%) SCOM
7 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (26.33%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.66%) Salesforce
3 32 (10.03%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.70%) Databricks
5 14 (4.39%) SAP
6 11 (3.45%) Oracle
7 7 (2.19%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.88%) Google
8 6 (1.88%) Intapp
9 5 (1.57%) VMware
10 4 (1.25%) Dell
10 4 (1.25%) iManage
11 3 (0.94%) Cisco
11 3 (0.94%) Concur
11 3 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.63%) Ariba
12 2 (0.63%) Citrix
12 2 (0.63%) HP
12 2 (0.63%) NetApp
12 2 (0.63%) SunGard