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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 435 470
Rank change year-on-year -35 +35 -81
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 279 241 477
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.55% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.59% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 193 157 345
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,688 £51,250
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 £102,000 £97,500 £88,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £59,250
% change year-on-year +12.50% +1.27% +3.65%

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 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £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 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 4 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 4 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 -40 252 £72,500 +11.54% 145
UK excluding London -29 152 £67,500 +12.50% 93
Work from Home +26 105 £70,000 +8.00% 154
London -48 95 £75,000 +11.11% 68
North of England -11 50 £73,500 +33.64% 27
South East -16 41 £57,303 -6.44% 26
North West +17 26 £73,500 +13.08% 18
Yorkshire -28 21 £82,500 +135.71% 8
East of England -14 20 £59,450 -15.07% 15
South West -52 20 £62,500 -3.57% 7
Midlands -54 18 £75,000 +39.70% 13
West Midlands -49 15 £70,000 +30.38% 7
North East -35 3 £77,500 +40.91% 1
East Midlands -25 2 £75,000 - 6
Wales -36 2 £55,395 -7.68% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

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 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.87%) Confluence
3 6 (2.15%) IIS
4 4 (1.43%) CICS
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.72%) Apache
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.43%) Windchill
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.72%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 117 (41.94%) Azure
2 75 (26.88%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (18.28%) Power Platform
4 31 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 25 (8.96%) Entra ID
6 22 (7.89%) AWS
7 21 (7.53%) GitHub
8 20 (7.17%) SaaS
9 19 (6.81%) Azure Logic Apps
10 16 (5.73%) Power Automate
10 16 (5.73%) PowerApps
11 14 (5.02%) Boomi
11 14 (5.02%) GCP
12 13 (4.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 12 (4.30%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.30%) Serverless
14 10 (3.58%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.58%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 9 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.23%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.79%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.36%) Broadband
2 1 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.83%) Power BI
2 14 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (4.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (3.94%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (3.23%) Spark SQL
7 8 (2.87%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.79%) Metadata
9 4 (1.43%) DB2
9 4 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.08%) Big Data
10 3 (1.08%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.08%) Looker
10 3 (1.08%) MySQL
10 3 (1.08%) Tableau
11 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.72%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.72%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.72%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 37 (13.26%) JIRA
2 19 (6.81%) Git
3 12 (4.30%) Eclipse
4 11 (3.94%) GitLab
5 9 (3.23%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.43%) ChangeMan
7 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.36%) JMeter
8 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.36%) Selenium
8 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 113 (40.50%) Social Skills
2 91 (32.62%) Finance
3 44 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.17%) Law
4 20 (7.17%) Marketing
5 15 (5.38%) Banking
6 14 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (5.02%) Retail
7 13 (4.66%) Legal
8 12 (4.30%) Public Sector
9 11 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.58%) Local Government
11 9 (3.23%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.43%) Environmental Health
13 4 (1.43%) Military
14 3 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.72%) Billing
15 2 (0.72%) Games
15 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (20.43%) Lead
2 52 (18.64%) Senior
3 39 (13.98%) Developer
4 29 (10.39%) Senior Developer
5 23 (8.24%) Analyst
6 21 (7.53%) Administrator
7 20 (7.17%) Consultant
8 15 (5.38%) Systems Administrator
9 14 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (5.02%) Release Manager
9 14 (5.02%) Software Manager
10 13 (4.66%) Applications Support
10 13 (4.66%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.30%) Architect
11 12 (4.30%) Salesforce Developer
11 12 (4.30%) Technical Leader
12 11 (3.94%) Engineering Manager
12 11 (3.94%) Management Consultant
12 11 (3.94%) Software Engineering Manager
13 10 (3.58%) Programme Office Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.62%) REST
2 23 (8.24%) Middleware
2 23 (8.24%) SOAP
3 17 (6.09%) .NET
3 17 (6.09%) React
4 16 (5.73%) JSON
5 14 (5.02%) Lightning Web Components
6 12 (4.30%) EDI
6 12 (4.30%) PySpark
6 12 (4.30%) XML
7 11 (3.94%) ARM Templates
8 9 (3.23%) CSS
8 9 (3.23%) HTML
9 7 (2.51%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.15%) Visualforce
11 5 (1.79%) YAML
12 2 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.72%) Swagger
13 1 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
13 1 (0.36%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.60%) Data Structures
1 24 (8.60%) Product Ownership
2 20 (7.17%) Management Information System
3 16 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.66%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.66%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.23%) Reinsurance
6 7 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.51%) Culture of Ownership
6 7 (2.51%) Podcast
7 4 (1.43%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.43%) VSAM
8 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.02%) Windows
2 9 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.43%) Linux
3 4 (1.43%) zOS
4 3 (1.08%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) Android
5 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (48.75%) DevOps
2 102 (36.56%) CI/CD
3 95 (34.05%) Agile
4 73 (26.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 72 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (21.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 55 (19.71%) ITIL
8 52 (18.64%) Roadmaps
9 50 (17.92%) Incident Management
10 44 (15.77%) Change Management
11 42 (15.05%) Integration Patterns
12 39 (13.98%) Decision-Making
13 38 (13.62%) AI
13 38 (13.62%) Scrum
14 36 (12.90%) Data Modelling
14 36 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (12.54%) Test Automation
16 34 (12.19%) ERP
17 33 (11.83%) Collaborative Working
17 33 (11.83%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 86 (30.82%) SQL
2 34 (12.19%) Python
3 17 (6.09%) PowerShell
4 16 (5.73%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.30%) Apex Code
6 10 (3.58%) SOQL
7 9 (3.23%) SOSL
8 7 (2.51%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.79%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.43%) COBOL
10 4 (1.43%) Java
10 4 (1.43%) JCL
11 3 (1.08%) Bash
12 2 (0.72%) Bicep
12 2 (0.72%) C#
12 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.36%) ABAP
13 1 (0.36%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) Korn
Qualifications
1 43 (15.41%) Degree
2 16 (5.73%) PMI Certification
2 16 (5.73%) PMP
3 15 (5.38%) Security Cleared
4 14 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.79%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.08%) MBA
10 1 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (22.94%) QA
2 29 (10.39%) Data Quality
3 25 (8.96%) GDPR
4 18 (6.45%) PMO
5 13 (4.66%) GRC
6 12 (4.30%) Accessibility
6 12 (4.30%) TickIT
7 5 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.43%) Def Stans
8 4 (1.43%) ISO 9000
8 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.43%) SLA
8 4 (1.43%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.87%) Docker
3 3 (1.08%) IAG
3 3 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.36%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 31 (11.11%) Terraform
2 18 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.66%) Ansible
4 5 (1.79%) Grafana
5 4 (1.43%) CA Endevor
6 2 (0.72%) Argo
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.36%) Packer
7 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.36%) SCCM
7 1 (0.36%) SCOM
7 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (24.37%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.54%) Salesforce
3 33 (11.83%) ServiceNow
4 17 (6.09%) Databricks
5 11 (3.94%) SAP
6 9 (3.23%) Oracle
7 5 (1.79%) Google
7 5 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.43%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.08%) Concur
9 3 (1.08%) Intapp
9 3 (1.08%) Remedy
9 3 (1.08%) VMware
10 2 (0.72%) Ariba
10 2 (0.72%) BMC
10 2 (0.72%) Citrix
10 2 (0.72%) Dell
10 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.72%) Infor
10 2 (0.72%) Isilon