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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 407 341
Rank change year-on-year -59 -66 +6
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 183 335 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.61% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.67% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 122 207 329
10th Percentile £26,250 £48,925 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,688 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -19.17% +4.35% +4.55%

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 48,662 49,693 47,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.06% 89.92% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,549 24,753 35,968
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,565 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 -59 166 £62,500 +4.17% 537
UK excluding London -37 90 £48,500 -19.17% 519
London +1 86 £82,500 +26.92% 67
Work from Home +23 73 £72,500 +20.83% 143
South East +23 29 £27,500 -54.17% 122
Midlands -26 21 £57,500 +4.55% 110
West Midlands -22 19 £53,688 -6.63% 57
North of England +4 17 £52,500 -6.67% 104
Wales +7 8 £48,500 - 15
South West +4 8 £52,500 -14.02% 57
Yorkshire -2 8 £60,000 +14.29% 49
Scotland +12 6 £22,129 - 29
North West +11 5 £60,000 -11.11% 46
North East - 4 £35,000 - 9
East of England +17 3 - - 85
East Midlands -18 2 £70,000 +64.71% 48

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 18 (9.84%) WebSphere
2 16 (8.74%) Tomcat
2 16 (8.74%) WebSphere Application Server
3 14 (7.65%) Apache Spark
4 11 (6.01%) Confluence
5 8 (4.37%) SharePoint
6 6 (3.28%) IIS
7 5 (2.73%) Apache
7 5 (2.73%) CMS
7 5 (2.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (1.09%) HCL Notes
8 2 (1.09%) JBoss
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (10.93%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (7.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (7.10%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Maya
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.64%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.64%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (1.09%) Endur
3 2 (1.09%) EuroRunner
3 2 (1.09%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (1.09%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.09%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.09%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.09%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (26.23%) AWS
2 47 (25.68%) Azure
3 18 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (7.65%) GCP
4 14 (7.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 11 (6.01%) Amazon EMR
6 10 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.46%) Serverless
7 9 (4.92%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (4.92%) SaaS
8 8 (4.37%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 6 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.28%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.28%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.28%) Route 53
9 6 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.73%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.93%) SSL
2 5 (2.73%) Internet
3 4 (2.19%) LAN
3 4 (2.19%) SAN
3 4 (2.19%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.19%) VoIP
3 4 (2.19%) WAN
3 4 (2.19%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.55%) HTTP
4 1 (0.55%) Intranet
4 1 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.13%) SQL Server
2 27 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (11.48%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.74%) DB2
4 16 (8.74%) MySQL
5 15 (8.20%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.20%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (7.65%) DynamoDB
7 13 (7.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (6.01%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (6.01%) Big Data
8 11 (6.01%) DataStage
8 11 (6.01%) Hadoop
8 11 (6.01%) Neo4j
8 11 (6.01%) Pentaho
8 11 (6.01%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.19%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (13.11%) JIRA
2 13 (7.10%) Git
3 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.09%) Ant
4 2 (1.09%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.09%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.09%) JMeter
4 2 (1.09%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.09%) Maven
4 2 (1.09%) NeoLoad
4 2 (1.09%) NUnit
4 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.55%) Moq
5 1 (0.55%) MSTest
5 1 (0.55%) Postman
5 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 84 (45.90%) Social Skills
2 80 (43.72%) Finance
3 41 (22.40%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.39%) Banking
5 20 (10.93%) Investment Banking
6 18 (9.84%) Law
7 11 (6.01%) Front Office
8 9 (4.92%) Retail
9 6 (3.28%) Legal
9 6 (3.28%) Marketing
10 4 (2.19%) Local Government
10 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.55%) Back Office
13 1 (0.55%) Games
13 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (21.86%) Analyst
2 39 (21.31%) Applications Support
3 33 (18.03%) Support Analyst
4 28 (15.30%) Lead
5 19 (10.38%) Applications Support Analyst
5 19 (10.38%) Technical Support
6 17 (9.29%) Senior
7 15 (8.20%) Linux Support
8 13 (7.10%) IT Analyst
8 13 (7.10%) IT Support
8 13 (7.10%) IT Support Analyst
8 13 (7.10%) Support Engineer
8 13 (7.10%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (7.10%) Technical Support Analyst
9 11 (6.01%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (6.01%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (5.46%) Developer
10 10 (5.46%) IT Manager
10 10 (5.46%) Service Manager
10 10 (5.46%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.11%) .NET
2 16 (8.74%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (8.74%) LDAP
2 16 (8.74%) WebSphere MQ
3 6 (3.28%) React
4 5 (2.73%) .NET Framework
4 5 (2.73%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.73%) REST
5 4 (2.19%) CSS
5 4 (2.19%) HTML
6 3 (1.64%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.64%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.64%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (1.64%) Middleware
6 3 (1.64%) Pandas
6 3 (1.64%) RESTful
7 2 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.09%) Kafka
7 2 (1.09%) Next.js
7 2 (1.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 50 (27.32%) Management Information System
2 17 (9.29%) Onboarding
2 17 (9.29%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.74%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.92%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.83%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.19%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.19%) Clustering
7 4 (2.19%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.64%) Derivative
8 3 (1.64%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.64%) Equities
8 3 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.09%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.58%) Windows
2 22 (12.02%) Linux
3 18 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (9.29%) Unix
5 10 (5.46%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 60 (32.79%) Agile
3 55 (30.05%) Problem-Solving
4 50 (27.32%) CI/CD
5 46 (25.14%) ITIL
6 40 (21.86%) DevOps
7 38 (20.77%) Change Management
8 32 (17.49%) Roadmaps
9 29 (15.85%) Analytics
9 29 (15.85%) Service Management
9 29 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (12.02%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (11.48%) SDLC
13 20 (10.93%) ETL
13 20 (10.93%) Migration
13 20 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (10.38%) Data Migration
14 19 (10.38%) Mentoring
15 18 (9.84%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 51 (27.87%) SQL
2 41 (22.40%) Python
3 18 (9.84%) C#
4 17 (9.29%) Java
5 11 (6.01%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.37%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.19%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.64%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.64%) Bash
8 3 (1.64%) Bicep
8 3 (1.64%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.09%) C++
9 2 (1.09%) Groovy
9 2 (1.09%) PHP
9 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.55%) Go
10 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 32 (17.49%) Degree
2 21 (11.48%) ITIL Certification
3 19 (10.38%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.28%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.64%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.09%) MBA
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.30%) SLA
2 22 (12.02%) QA
3 6 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.09%) GAAP
5 2 (1.09%) IFRS
5 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.28%) Active Directory
1 6 (3.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.73%) Terraform
3 4 (2.19%) Ansible
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
4 2 (1.09%) Podman
4 2 (1.09%) Puppet
4 2 (1.09%) SCOM
5 1 (0.55%) Argo
5 1 (0.55%) Control-M
5 1 (0.55%) Kibana
5 1 (0.55%) SCCM
5 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 29 (15.85%) ServiceNow
3 26 (14.21%) Salesforce
4 23 (12.57%) Oracle
5 19 (10.38%) IBM
6 16 (8.74%) Red Hat
7 11 (6.01%) Informatica
7 11 (6.01%) Talend
8 4 (2.19%) BMC
8 4 (2.19%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.19%) Remedy
8 4 (2.19%) SAP
9 2 (1.09%) Databricks
9 2 (1.09%) Dell
9 2 (1.09%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.09%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.09%) Lotus
9 2 (1.09%) Trayport
9 2 (1.09%) VMware
10 1 (0.55%) Gemalto