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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 458 433
Rank change year-on-year +18 -25 -62
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 389 239 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.54% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 259 154 299
10th Percentile £40,700 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £108,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,250 £53,688 £59,500
% change year-on-year +12.22% -9.77% +5.26%

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 78,793 44,552 66,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.35% 89.17% 80.87%
Number of salaries quoted 54,339 25,245 43,003
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -3 328 £70,000 +18.14% 160
UK excluding London -3 230 £60,250 +12.22% 123
Work from Home +50 161 £70,000 +5.26% 67
London -15 127 £87,500 +20.69% 53
North of England +7 70 £73,000 +34.56% 29
South East -10 58 £60,000 +28.34% 38
North West +25 36 £73,500 +17.60% 17
Yorkshire -8 30 £77,500 +44.86% 8
Midlands -39 29 £52,500 -2.21% 19
Northern Ireland - 26 - - 3
South West -61 20 £39,000 -31.27% 14
West Midlands -38 19 £52,500 -2.21% 16
East of England -17 17 £57,500 -14.81% 19
East Midlands -16 9 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +5 8 £33,000 +1.54% 4
North East -63 4 £63,750 +82.14% 5
Wales -69 2 £55,395 +14.22%

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 14 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.34%) Confluence
3 11 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.29%) Camunda
4 5 (1.29%) IIS
5 4 (1.03%) CICS
6 3 (0.77%) Apache
6 3 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.77%) WordPress
7 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.26%) CMS
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.57%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.03%) Windchill
5 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.77%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.77%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.51%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.51%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.51%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 140 (35.99%) Azure
2 82 (21.08%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (17.48%) Power Platform
4 48 (12.34%) Dynamics 365
5 41 (10.54%) SaaS
6 38 (9.77%) AWS
7 34 (8.74%) GitHub
8 27 (6.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (6.43%) Power Automate
10 24 (6.17%) Entra ID
11 23 (5.91%) PowerApps
12 18 (4.63%) GCP
13 17 (4.37%) Serverless
14 15 (3.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 14 (3.60%) Boomi
15 14 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
16 12 (3.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 11 (2.83%) Azure Functions
18 10 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.80%) DNS
2 6 (1.54%) VPN
3 5 (1.29%) ATM
3 5 (1.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.26%) DHCP
4 1 (0.26%) Firewall
4 1 (0.26%) NAS
4 1 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (11.57%) Power BI
2 25 (6.43%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.57%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.31%) Spark SQL
6 9 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (2.06%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.80%) Metadata
9 6 (1.54%) Tableau
10 5 (1.29%) Db2
10 5 (1.29%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.03%) MySQL
11 4 (1.03%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.77%) Big Data
12 3 (0.77%) Looker
12 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 58 (14.91%) JIRA
2 34 (8.74%) Git
3 16 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.60%) GitLab
5 6 (1.54%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.29%) JUnit
6 5 (1.29%) Mockito
7 4 (1.03%) ChangeMan
7 4 (1.03%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.51%) Postman
8 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.26%) git-flow
9 1 (0.26%) mountebank
9 1 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.26%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 195 (50.13%) Social Skills
2 138 (35.48%) Finance
3 96 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.57%) Law
5 27 (6.94%) Banking
6 25 (6.43%) Marketing
6 25 (6.43%) Public Sector
7 24 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (5.14%) Legal
8 20 (5.14%) Retail
9 17 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.86%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.34%) Manufacturing
13 12 (3.08%) Front Office
13 12 (3.08%) Local Government
14 10 (2.57%) Legal Technology
15 8 (2.06%) Financial Institution
15 8 (2.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (17.74%) Senior
2 62 (15.94%) Analyst
3 52 (13.37%) Lead
4 41 (10.54%) Developer
5 39 (10.03%) Support Analyst
6 26 (6.68%) ITSM Analyst
6 26 (6.68%) Process Analyst
7 25 (6.43%) Consultant
7 25 (6.43%) Senior Developer
8 24 (6.17%) Administrator
9 19 (4.88%) Systems Administrator
10 17 (4.37%) Release Manager
11 16 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (3.86%) Applications Support
12 15 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (3.86%) IT Manager
12 15 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (3.86%) Senior Support Analyst
12 15 (3.86%) Service Manager
13 14 (3.60%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.60%) REST
2 24 (6.17%) Middleware
2 24 (6.17%) SOAP
3 16 (4.11%) JSON
4 15 (3.86%) Lightning Web Components
5 14 (3.60%) .NET
6 13 (3.34%) React
7 12 (3.08%) EDI
7 12 (3.08%) XML
8 11 (2.83%) CSS
8 11 (2.83%) HTML
9 10 (2.57%) PySpark
10 9 (2.31%) ARM Templates
10 9 (2.31%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (2.06%) YAML
12 6 (1.54%) Visualforce
13 5 (1.29%) JPA
13 5 (1.29%) OAuth
13 5 (1.29%) OpenID
13 5 (1.29%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.31%) Management Information System
2 31 (7.97%) Onboarding
3 29 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 24 (6.17%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (5.66%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.86%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.34%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.31%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.80%) Culture of Ownership
10 7 (1.80%) Podcast
11 6 (1.54%) Life Science
12 5 (1.29%) CMDB
12 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.03%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.03%) Legacy Code
13 4 (1.03%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.03%) VSAM
14 3 (0.77%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.17%) Linux
2 17 (4.37%) Windows
3 9 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.29%) Unix
5 4 (1.03%) zOS
6 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.26%) Android
7 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (41.39%) DevOps
2 154 (39.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 136 (34.96%) CI/CD
4 124 (31.88%) Agile
5 121 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
6 109 (28.02%) ITIL
7 101 (25.96%) Change Management
8 93 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 75 (19.28%) Decision-Making
10 65 (16.71%) Collaborative Working
10 65 (16.71%) Project Delivery
11 64 (16.45%) Service Management
12 63 (16.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 62 (15.94%) ITSM
14 58 (14.91%) Roadmaps
14 58 (14.91%) Root Cause Analysis
15 51 (13.11%) Mentoring
15 51 (13.11%) Scrum
15 51 (13.11%) Test Automation
16 50 (12.85%) AI
Programming Languages
1 91 (23.39%) SQL
2 48 (12.34%) Python
3 26 (6.68%) JavaScript
4 15 (3.86%) Java
4 15 (3.86%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.57%) Apex Code
5 10 (2.57%) C#
5 10 (2.57%) SOQL
6 9 (2.31%) C++
6 9 (2.31%) SOSL
7 8 (2.06%) COBOL
8 7 (1.80%) Bash
8 7 (1.80%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.29%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.29%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.03%) JCL
11 3 (0.77%) C
11 3 (0.77%) PHP
12 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 82 (21.08%) Degree
2 33 (8.48%) Security Cleared
3 29 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (4.88%) PMI Certification
5 17 (4.37%) PMP
6 9 (2.31%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.26%) CCSK
11 1 (0.26%) CSPO
11 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (17.22%) QA
2 38 (9.77%) Data Quality
3 29 (7.46%) GDPR
4 20 (5.14%) PMO
5 16 (4.11%) Accessibility
6 13 (3.34%) GRC
7 12 (3.08%) TickIT
8 11 (2.83%) SLA
9 9 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (2.06%) Def Stans
11 5 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (1.03%) ISO 9000
12 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 4 (1.03%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.77%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 15 (3.86%) Active Directory
1 15 (3.86%) Docker
2 6 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.77%) IAG
4 2 (0.51%) Firmware
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.26%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (9.25%) Terraform
2 16 (4.11%) Ansible
3 13 (3.34%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.03%) CA Endevor
4 4 (1.03%) Grafana
5 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.51%) Argo
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.51%) SCCM
6 2 (0.51%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.26%) Packer
7 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 101 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.00%) Salesforce
3 24 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 17 (4.37%) Databricks
5 15 (3.86%) Oracle
5 15 (3.86%) SAP
6 10 (2.57%) Google
7 9 (2.31%) FIS
7 9 (2.31%) SunGard
8 7 (1.80%) HP
8 7 (1.80%) LogicMonitor
8 7 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.80%) VMware
9 6 (1.54%) Intapp
10 5 (1.29%) iManage
11 4 (1.03%) Cisco
11 4 (1.03%) Dell
11 4 (1.03%) VocaLink
12 3 (0.77%) NetApp
12 3 (0.77%) Splunk