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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 447 457
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -108
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 413 246 370
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.56% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 267 159 250
10th Percentile £40,500 £39,500 £45,680
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £56,745 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.36% -9.21% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £88,750 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% +6.15%

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 82,871 44,018 63,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.00% 88.61% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 57,674 24,857 36,941
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.67%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -14 354 £70,000 +21.74% 282
UK excluding London -11 250 £60,000 +13.21% 169
Work from Home +39 171 £70,000 +11.11% 132
London -37 133 £85,000 +13.33% 146
North of England +7 73 £73,500 +37.38% 45
South East -21 66 £58,652 +83.29% 41
North West +5 38 £73,500 +17.60% 31
Midlands -49 32 £52,500 -2.21% 24
Yorkshire -24 30 £77,500 +44.86% 11
Northern Ireland - 26 - - 10
South West -67 23 £54,000 -4.84% 18
West Midlands -45 20 £51,875 -3.38% 16
East of England -13 19 £57,500 +4.55% 14
East Midlands - 12 £70,000 - 8
Scotland +16 9 £33,000 - 17
North East -57 5 £63,750 +82.14% 4
Wales -75 2 £55,395 +14.22% 3

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 21 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.91%) Confluence
3 11 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.21%) Camunda
5 4 (0.97%) CICS
5 4 (0.97%) IIS
6 3 (0.73%) Apache
6 3 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.73%) WordPress
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.97%) Windchill
5 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.73%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.73%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.73%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.48%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.48%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 150 (36.32%) Azure
2 88 (21.31%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (19.13%) Power Platform
4 57 (13.80%) Dynamics 365
5 43 (10.41%) SaaS
6 41 (9.93%) AWS
7 37 (8.96%) GitHub
8 30 (7.26%) PowerApps
9 29 (7.02%) Entra ID
10 28 (6.78%) Azure Logic Apps
11 25 (6.05%) Power Automate
12 19 (4.60%) Serverless
13 17 (4.12%) Azure Key Vault
13 17 (4.12%) GCP
14 14 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (3.15%) Boomi
15 13 (3.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 12 (2.91%) Azure Functions
17 11 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
17 11 (2.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.69%) DNS
2 6 (1.45%) VPN
3 5 (1.21%) ATM
3 5 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.73%) NAS
4 3 (0.73%) SAN
5 1 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (13.08%) Power BI
2 26 (6.30%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.12%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.18%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.18%) Spark SQL
6 9 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.94%) Metadata
8 6 (1.45%) Tableau
9 5 (1.21%) Db2
10 4 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.97%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.97%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.73%) Looker
11 3 (0.73%) MySQL
11 3 (0.73%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 57 (13.80%) JIRA
2 44 (10.65%) Git
3 16 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.15%) GitLab
5 6 (1.45%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.21%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.21%) JUnit
6 5 (1.21%) Mockito
7 4 (0.97%) ChangeMan
8 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.48%) Subversion
9 2 (0.48%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.24%) git-flow
10 1 (0.24%) mountebank
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.24%) Postman
10 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 203 (49.15%) Social Skills
2 151 (36.56%) Finance
3 102 (24.70%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.41%) Law
5 29 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.30%) Banking
6 26 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.05%) Marketing
7 25 (6.05%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (5.08%) Retail
9 18 (4.36%) Legal
10 17 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.63%) Investment Banking
12 12 (2.91%) Front Office
12 12 (2.91%) Local Government
13 10 (2.42%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.18%) Financial Institution
14 9 (2.18%) Legal Technology
15 8 (1.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (16.46%) Senior
2 64 (15.50%) Analyst
3 55 (13.32%) Lead
4 46 (11.14%) Developer
5 39 (9.44%) Support Analyst
6 26 (6.30%) ITSM Analyst
6 26 (6.30%) Process Analyst
7 25 (6.05%) Consultant
8 24 (5.81%) Administrator
9 23 (5.57%) Senior Developer
10 19 (4.60%) Systems Administrator
11 18 (4.36%) IT Manager
11 18 (4.36%) Release Manager
11 18 (4.36%) Service Manager
12 17 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
14 15 (3.63%) Senior Support Analyst
15 14 (3.39%) Senior Process Analyst
16 13 (3.15%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.86%) REST
2 37 (8.96%) Terraform
3 25 (6.05%) Middleware
3 25 (6.05%) SOAP
4 16 (3.87%) .NET
4 16 (3.87%) JSON
4 16 (3.87%) Lightning Web Components
5 12 (2.91%) EDI
5 12 (2.91%) XML
6 11 (2.66%) PySpark
6 11 (2.66%) React
7 9 (2.18%) ARM Templates
7 9 (2.18%) CSS
7 9 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (2.18%) HTML
8 8 (1.94%) YAML
9 7 (1.69%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.45%) Spring
10 6 (1.45%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.11%) Management Information System
2 31 (7.51%) Onboarding
3 27 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.57%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (4.84%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.63%) Data Structures
7 14 (3.39%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.18%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.45%) Life Science
12 5 (1.21%) CMDB
12 5 (1.21%) Culture of Ownership
12 5 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.21%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.21%) Podcast
13 4 (0.97%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.97%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.05%) Linux
2 17 (4.12%) Windows
3 9 (2.18%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.45%) Unix
5 4 (0.97%) zOS
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (40.92%) DevOps
2 165 (39.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 139 (33.66%) CI/CD
4 133 (32.20%) Agile
5 125 (30.27%) Problem-Solving
6 115 (27.85%) ITIL
7 107 (25.91%) Change Management
8 105 (25.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 78 (18.89%) Decision-Making
10 74 (17.92%) Project Delivery
11 69 (16.71%) Service Management
12 68 (16.46%) Collaborative Working
13 67 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 66 (15.98%) ITSM
15 61 (14.77%) Roadmaps
16 58 (14.04%) Mentoring
16 58 (14.04%) Root Cause Analysis
17 56 (13.56%) ERP
18 53 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
19 51 (12.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 90 (21.79%) SQL
2 49 (11.86%) Python
3 23 (5.57%) JavaScript
4 19 (4.60%) C#
5 16 (3.87%) Java
6 15 (3.63%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.42%) Apex Code
7 10 (2.42%) C++
8 8 (1.94%) COBOL
9 7 (1.69%) Bash
9 7 (1.69%) SOQL
9 7 (1.69%) SOSL
9 7 (1.69%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.21%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.21%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.97%) JCL
12 3 (0.73%) C
12 3 (0.73%) Perl
12 3 (0.73%) PHP
13 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 80 (19.37%) Degree
2 40 (9.69%) Security Cleared
3 32 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.12%) PMI Certification
6 15 (3.63%) PMP
7 10 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.97%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.24%) CCSK
11 1 (0.24%) CSPO
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (17.68%) QA
2 40 (9.69%) Data Quality
3 32 (7.75%) GDPR
4 18 (4.36%) PMO
5 15 (3.63%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.91%) TickIT
7 11 (2.66%) GRC
7 11 (2.66%) SLA
8 10 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.94%) Def Stans
10 5 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.97%) ISO 9000
11 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.73%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.73%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.48%) GxP
13 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.24%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 16 (3.87%) Docker
2 15 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.97%) Firmware
5 3 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.73%) IAG
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.24%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (3.87%) Ansible
2 14 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.97%) CA Endevor
3 4 (0.97%) Grafana
4 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.48%) Argo
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.48%) SCCM
5 2 (0.48%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.24%) Packer
6 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 112 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.20%) Salesforce
3 26 (6.30%) ServiceNow
4 19 (4.60%) SAP
5 18 (4.36%) Oracle
6 17 (4.12%) Databricks
7 14 (3.39%) HP
8 11 (2.66%) Google
9 9 (2.18%) FIS
9 9 (2.18%) SunGard
9 9 (2.18%) VMware
10 7 (1.69%) LogicMonitor
10 7 (1.69%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.69%) Workday
11 5 (1.21%) Concur
11 5 (1.21%) iManage
11 5 (1.21%) Intapp
11 5 (1.21%) NetApp
12 4 (0.97%) Dell
12 4 (0.97%) VocaLink