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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 451 453
Rank change year-on-year +33 +2 -101
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 448 238 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.48% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.54% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 284 159 238
10th Percentile £38,772 £34,500 £45,680
25th Percentile £51,238 £48,125 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,297 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.59% -11.52% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £77,143
90th Percentile £107,500 £88,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.07% -14.58% +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 84,196 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,302 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 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 18 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 +16 381 £70,000 +22.54% 506
UK excluding London -4 276 £60,000 +17.07% 305
Work from Home +61 190 £67,000 +6.35% 215
London -24 141 £85,000 +9.68% 253
North of England -11 81 £72,500 +33.64% 78
South East -11 69 £60,000 +101.68% 70
North West +20 45 £73,500 +17.60% 54
Midlands -42 36 £52,500 -2.21% 41
Northern Ireland - 36 - - 29
Yorkshire -25 30 £72,500 +27.75% 20
South West -76 24 £45,000 -20.70% 27
West Midlands -55 23 £51,875 -3.38% 25
East of England -13 19 £56,250 +2.27% 28
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 16
Scotland +9 9 £33,000 +49.13% 28
North East -68 6 £55,000 +57.14% 5
Wales -76 2 £55,395 +14.22% 9

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 24 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.68%) Confluence
2 12 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.12%) Camunda
4 4 (0.89%) CICS
5 3 (0.67%) Apache
5 3 (0.67%) IIS
5 3 (0.67%) WordPress
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.89%) Windchill
6 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.67%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.67%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.67%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.45%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.45%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.22%) Infor CloudSuite
5 1 (0.22%) Maximo
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 157 (35.04%) Azure
2 94 (20.98%) Power Platform
3 90 (20.09%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (13.39%) Dynamics 365
5 44 (9.82%) SaaS
6 43 (9.60%) AWS
7 37 (8.26%) GitHub
8 35 (7.81%) PowerApps
9 29 (6.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 29 (6.47%) Entra ID
9 29 (6.47%) Power Automate
10 17 (3.79%) Azure Key Vault
10 17 (3.79%) Serverless
11 16 (3.57%) GCP
11 16 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (2.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 12 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.68%) Boomi
13 12 (2.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 11 (2.46%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.56%) DNS
2 6 (1.34%) VPN
3 5 (1.12%) ATM
3 5 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.67%) NAS
4 3 (0.67%) SAN
5 1 (0.22%) DHCP
5 1 (0.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (14.51%) Power BI
2 25 (5.58%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.69%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.79%) Metadata
9 8 (1.79%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.34%) Tableau
11 5 (1.12%) Db2
11 5 (1.12%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.89%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.67%) GIS
13 3 (0.67%) Looker
13 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (12.28%) JIRA
2 51 (11.38%) Git
3 16 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.23%) GitLab
5 6 (1.34%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.12%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.12%) JUnit
6 5 (1.12%) Mockito
7 4 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.89%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.45%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.45%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.22%) git-flow
9 1 (0.22%) mountebank
9 1 (0.22%) Postman
9 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 219 (48.88%) Social Skills
2 155 (34.60%) Finance
3 118 (26.34%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.15%) Law
5 37 (8.26%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (6.03%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (5.80%) Marketing
9 23 (5.13%) Banking
10 22 (4.91%) Retail
11 18 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (3.35%) Legal
13 14 (3.13%) Investment Banking
14 13 (2.90%) Manufacturing
15 12 (2.68%) Front Office
15 12 (2.68%) Local Government
16 9 (2.01%) Financial Institution
16 9 (2.01%) Military
17 8 (1.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 81 (18.08%) Senior
2 78 (17.41%) Analyst
3 57 (12.72%) Lead
4 49 (10.94%) Developer
5 43 (9.60%) Support Analyst
6 37 (8.26%) ITSM Analyst
7 32 (7.14%) Process Analyst
8 29 (6.47%) IT Manager
9 28 (6.25%) Service Manager
10 26 (5.80%) Consultant
10 26 (5.80%) Senior Analyst
11 24 (5.36%) Administrator
12 23 (5.13%) Senior Developer
13 21 (4.69%) IT Services Manager
14 20 (4.46%) Senior Process Analyst
14 20 (4.46%) Systems Administrator
15 19 (4.24%) Senior Support Analyst
16 18 (4.02%) Release Manager
17 17 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
18 16 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.16%) REST
2 34 (7.59%) Terraform
3 26 (5.80%) Middleware
3 26 (5.80%) SOAP
4 19 (4.24%) Lightning Web Components
5 18 (4.02%) .NET
6 16 (3.57%) JSON
7 12 (2.68%) EDI
7 12 (2.68%) XML
8 11 (2.46%) PySpark
9 9 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (2.01%) React
10 8 (1.79%) ARM Templates
10 8 (1.79%) YAML
11 7 (1.56%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.56%) CSS
11 7 (1.56%) HTML
12 6 (1.34%) Spring
12 6 (1.34%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.12%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 55 (12.28%) Management Information System
2 29 (6.47%) Onboarding
3 27 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 25 (5.58%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (4.46%) Cloud Native
6 14 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 14 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.01%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.34%) Life Science
10 6 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.12%) CMDB
11 5 (1.12%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.89%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.89%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.89%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.80%) Linux
2 16 (3.57%) Windows
3 8 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.12%) Unix
5 4 (0.89%) zOS
6 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.22%) Android
7 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (43.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 171 (38.17%) DevOps
3 143 (31.92%) CI/CD
4 140 (31.25%) ITIL
5 133 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (29.24%) Change Management
7 127 (28.35%) Agile
8 115 (25.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 97 (21.65%) Service Management
10 91 (20.31%) Decision-Making
11 86 (19.20%) Project Delivery
12 83 (18.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 77 (17.19%) ITSM
14 74 (16.52%) Collaborative Working
15 72 (16.07%) Root Cause Analysis
16 68 (15.18%) Mentoring
17 67 (14.96%) Problem Management
18 65 (14.51%) Business Intelligence
19 63 (14.06%) Roadmaps
20 59 (13.17%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 91 (20.31%) SQL
2 49 (10.94%) Python
3 23 (5.13%) C#
4 21 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.57%) Java
5 16 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 14 (3.13%) Apex Code
7 10 (2.23%) C++
8 8 (1.79%) Bash
8 8 (1.79%) COBOL
9 7 (1.56%) SOQL
9 7 (1.56%) SOSL
9 7 (1.56%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.89%) JCL
11 4 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.67%) C
12 3 (0.67%) Perl
12 3 (0.67%) PHP
13 2 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 87 (19.42%) Degree
2 44 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 34 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.35%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.90%) PMP
7 11 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.34%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.22%) CISA
12 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.22%) CISM
12 1 (0.22%) CRISC
12 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (16.52%) QA
2 43 (9.60%) Data Quality
3 29 (6.47%) GDPR
4 20 (4.46%) PMO
5 13 (2.90%) SLA
6 12 (2.68%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.68%) TickIT
7 10 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.79%) Def Stans
9 6 (1.34%) GRC
10 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.89%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 4 (0.89%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.67%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.45%) GxP
12 2 (0.45%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.45%) SOC 3
System Software
1 15 (3.35%) Docker
2 14 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.89%) Firmware
5 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.67%) IAG
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (3.35%) Ansible
1 15 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.89%) CA Endevor
3 3 (0.67%) Grafana
3 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.45%) Argo
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.45%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.22%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.22%) Packer
5 1 (0.22%) Puppet
5 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 122 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.15%) Salesforce
3 38 (8.48%) ServiceNow
4 22 (4.91%) SAP
5 17 (3.79%) Databricks
5 17 (3.79%) Oracle
6 16 (3.57%) HP
7 13 (2.90%) Google
8 10 (2.23%) Workday
9 9 (2.01%) FIS
9 9 (2.01%) SunGard
10 8 (1.79%) VMware
11 7 (1.56%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.34%) LogicMonitor
13 5 (1.12%) Concur
13 5 (1.12%) iManage
13 5 (1.12%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.12%) NetApp
14 4 (0.89%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.89%) VocaLink