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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 440 443
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -93
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 391 239 414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.54% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 258 153 300
10th Percentile £40,675 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £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 £80,313
90th Percentile £107,875 £88,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £53,688 £59,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -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 78,861 44,450 67,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.27% 89.12% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 54,468 25,168 42,663
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 £96,250 £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 21 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 21 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 +4 330 £70,000 +19.66% 151
UK excluding London -19 231 £60,000 +11.76% 112
Work from Home +39 162 £70,000 +3.71% 63
London -33 129 £90,000 +20.00% 52
North of England +1 70 £73,000 +34.56% 28
South East -19 58 £60,000 +28.34% 35
North West +5 36 £73,500 +17.60% 19
Yorkshire -17 30 £77,500 +44.86% 6
Midlands -47 27 £52,500 -2.21% 18
Northern Ireland - 26 - - 4
South West -62 21 £42,000 -25.98% 11
East of England -3 18 £57,500 -6.12% 18
West Midlands -49 18 £52,500 -2.21% 13
Scotland +20 9 £33,000 +1.54% 2
East Midlands -13 9 £70,000 - 5
North East -57 4 £63,750 +82.14% 4
Wales -62 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 (3.58%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.32%) Confluence
3 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.28%) Camunda
4 5 (1.28%) IIS
5 4 (1.02%) 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 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.02%) Windchill
5 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (3.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.81%) 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
1 142 (36.32%) Azure
2 82 (20.97%) Azure DevOps
3 67 (17.14%) Power Platform
4 47 (12.02%) Dynamics 365
5 41 (10.49%) SaaS
6 39 (9.97%) AWS
7 35 (8.95%) GitHub
8 27 (6.91%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (6.39%) Power Automate
10 24 (6.14%) Entra ID
11 23 (5.88%) PowerApps
12 19 (4.86%) GCP
13 18 (4.60%) Serverless
14 15 (3.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 14 (3.58%) Boomi
15 14 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (3.07%) Azure Key Vault
16 12 (3.07%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 11 (2.81%) Azure Functions
18 10 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.79%) DNS
2 6 (1.53%) VPN
3 5 (1.28%) ATM
3 5 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.51%) NAS
4 2 (0.51%) SAN
5 1 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.26%) DHCP
5 1 (0.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.25%) Power BI
2 27 (6.91%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.30%) Spark SQL
6 9 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (2.05%) Data Lake
8 7 (1.79%) Metadata
9 6 (1.53%) Tableau
10 5 (1.28%) Db2
10 5 (1.28%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.02%) MySQL
11 4 (1.02%) 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 (14.83%) JIRA
2 36 (9.21%) Git
3 16 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.58%) GitLab
5 6 (1.53%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.28%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.28%) JUnit
6 5 (1.28%) Mockito
7 4 (1.02%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.51%) Postman
8 2 (0.51%) Subversion
8 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.26%) mountebank
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.26%) Selenium
9 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 197 (50.38%) Social Skills
2 138 (35.29%) Finance
3 96 (24.55%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (11.51%) Law
5 28 (7.16%) Banking
6 25 (6.39%) Marketing
6 25 (6.39%) Public Sector
7 24 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (5.63%) Legal
9 21 (5.37%) Retail
10 17 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (3.84%) Investment Banking
13 12 (3.07%) Front Office
13 12 (3.07%) Local Government
14 11 (2.81%) Legal Technology
15 10 (2.56%) Manufacturing
16 8 (2.05%) Financial Institution
16 8 (2.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (17.14%) Senior
2 62 (15.86%) Analyst
3 52 (13.30%) Lead
4 41 (10.49%) Developer
5 39 (9.97%) Support Analyst
6 26 (6.65%) ITSM Analyst
6 26 (6.65%) Process Analyst
7 25 (6.39%) Consultant
7 25 (6.39%) Senior Developer
8 24 (6.14%) Administrator
9 19 (4.86%) Systems Administrator
10 18 (4.60%) Release Manager
11 16 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (3.84%) Applications Support
12 15 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (3.84%) IT Manager
12 15 (3.84%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (3.84%) Senior Support Analyst
12 15 (3.84%) Service Manager
13 14 (3.58%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (12.79%) REST
2 36 (9.21%) Terraform
3 25 (6.39%) Middleware
3 25 (6.39%) SOAP
4 16 (4.09%) .NET
4 16 (4.09%) JSON
5 15 (3.84%) Lightning Web Components
6 13 (3.32%) React
7 12 (3.07%) EDI
7 12 (3.07%) XML
8 11 (2.81%) CSS
8 11 (2.81%) HTML
9 10 (2.56%) PySpark
10 9 (2.30%) ARM Templates
10 9 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (2.05%) YAML
12 7 (1.79%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.53%) Visualforce
14 5 (1.28%) OAuth
14 5 (1.28%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.51%) Management Information System
2 32 (8.18%) Onboarding
3 29 (7.42%) Product Ownership
4 23 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (5.63%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.84%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.30%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.79%) Culture of Ownership
10 7 (1.79%) Podcast
11 6 (1.53%) Life Science
12 5 (1.28%) CMDB
13 4 (1.02%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.02%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.02%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.39%) Linux
2 17 (4.35%) Windows
3 9 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.53%) Unix
5 4 (1.02%) 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 (41.18%) DevOps
2 155 (39.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 136 (34.78%) CI/CD
4 129 (32.99%) Agile
5 121 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
6 110 (28.13%) ITIL
7 101 (25.83%) Change Management
8 95 (24.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 76 (19.44%) Decision-Making
10 66 (16.88%) Collaborative Working
10 66 (16.88%) Project Delivery
11 65 (16.62%) Service Management
12 63 (16.11%) ITSM
12 63 (16.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 60 (15.35%) Root Cause Analysis
14 58 (14.83%) Roadmaps
15 52 (13.30%) Mentoring
15 52 (13.30%) Scrum
16 50 (12.79%) Test Automation
17 49 (12.53%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (23.27%) SQL
2 50 (12.79%) Python
3 27 (6.91%) JavaScript
4 17 (4.35%) Java
5 15 (3.84%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.07%) C#
7 10 (2.56%) C++
8 9 (2.30%) Apex Code
8 9 (2.30%) SOQL
8 9 (2.30%) SOSL
9 8 (2.05%) COBOL
10 7 (1.79%) Bash
10 7 (1.79%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.28%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.28%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.02%) JCL
13 3 (0.77%) C
13 3 (0.77%) Perl
13 3 (0.77%) PHP
14 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 81 (20.72%) Degree
2 34 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 29 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (4.86%) PMI Certification
5 17 (4.35%) PMP
6 9 (2.30%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.77%) AWS Certification
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 68 (17.39%) QA
2 38 (9.72%) Data Quality
3 27 (6.91%) GDPR
4 20 (5.12%) PMO
5 16 (4.09%) Accessibility
6 13 (3.32%) GRC
7 12 (3.07%) TickIT
8 11 (2.81%) SLA
9 9 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (2.05%) Def Stans
11 5 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (1.02%) ISO 9000
12 4 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 3 (0.77%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 16 (4.09%) Docker
2 15 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.77%) Firmware
4 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.77%) IAG
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 16 (4.09%) Ansible
2 14 (3.58%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.02%) CA Endevor
3 4 (1.02%) Grafana
4 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.51%) Argo
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.51%) SCCM
5 2 (0.51%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.26%) Packer
6 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 103 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.95%) Salesforce
3 23 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 17 (4.35%) Databricks
5 16 (4.09%) Oracle
6 15 (3.84%) SAP
7 10 (2.56%) Google
8 9 (2.30%) FIS
8 9 (2.30%) SunGard
9 8 (2.05%) VMware
10 7 (1.79%) HP
10 7 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
10 7 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.53%) Intapp
12 5 (1.28%) iManage
13 4 (1.02%) Cisco
13 4 (1.02%) Dell
13 4 (1.02%) NetApp
13 4 (1.02%) VocaLink
14 3 (0.77%) Splunk