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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 463 448
Rank change year-on-year +59 -15 -114
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 494 226 367
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.52% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 288 155 236
10th Percentile £38,772 £32,500 £45,680
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £52,902
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 £78,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £88,750 £93,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,525
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.08% +1.77%

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 85,591 43,838 62,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.74% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 59,105 24,621 34,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
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% -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 25 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 25 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 +17 393 £70,000 +22.54% 517
UK excluding London +34 321 £60,000 +20.00% 286
Work from Home +46 189 £67,500 +12.50% 230
London -13 143 £85,000 +9.68% 271
North of England -9 84 £72,500 +33.64% 72
Northern Ireland - 73 - - 21
South East -11 72 £60,000 +118.18% 73
North West +8 47 £73,500 +17.60% 45
Midlands -41 36 £52,500 -2.21% 37
Yorkshire -16 28 £72,500 +27.75% 23
South West -63 25 £54,000 -4.84% 26
West Midlands -56 23 £51,875 -3.38% 23
East of England -5 19 £56,250 +2.27% 24
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 14
Scotland +14 9 £33,000 +49.13% 24
North East -67 9 £55,000 +57.14% 4
Wales -75 3 £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 (4.86%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.43%) Confluence
4 5 (1.01%) Camunda
5 4 (0.81%) CICS
6 3 (0.61%) Apache
6 3 (0.61%) IIS
6 3 (0.61%) WordPress
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.81%) Windchill
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.01%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.61%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.61%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.40%) Maximo
5 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.40%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.20%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 164 (33.20%) Azure
2 99 (20.04%) Power Platform
3 94 (19.03%) Azure DevOps
4 60 (12.15%) Dynamics 365
5 46 (9.31%) SaaS
6 42 (8.50%) AWS
7 40 (8.10%) GitHub
8 36 (7.29%) PowerApps
9 32 (6.48%) Power Automate
10 31 (6.28%) Azure Logic Apps
11 30 (6.07%) Entra ID
12 19 (3.85%) Serverless
13 18 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (3.44%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (2.83%) GCP
15 14 (2.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 13 (2.63%) Azure Functions
17 12 (2.43%) Boomi
17 12 (2.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.42%) DNS
2 6 (1.21%) VPN
3 5 (1.01%) ATM
3 5 (1.01%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.61%) NAS
4 3 (0.61%) SAN
5 1 (0.20%) DHCP
5 1 (0.20%) Firewall
5 1 (0.20%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.36%) Power BI
2 24 (4.86%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.25%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.02%) Metadata
6 10 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.42%) Spark SQL
9 6 (1.21%) Tableau
10 5 (1.01%) Db2
10 5 (1.01%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.81%) GIS
11 4 (0.81%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.81%) Redis
11 4 (0.81%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 58 (11.74%) JIRA
2 52 (10.53%) Git
3 17 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.02%) GitLab
5 6 (1.21%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.01%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.01%) JUnit
6 5 (1.01%) Mockito
7 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.81%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.40%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.20%) git-flow
9 1 (0.20%) mountebank
9 1 (0.20%) Postman
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.20%) Subversion
9 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 263 (53.24%) Social Skills
2 162 (32.79%) Finance
3 160 (32.39%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (14.17%) Presentation Skills
5 40 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.69%) Law
7 26 (5.26%) Marketing
7 26 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (4.66%) Banking
10 22 (4.45%) Retail
11 18 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (2.83%) Investment Banking
13 13 (2.63%) Legal
14 12 (2.43%) Front Office
14 12 (2.43%) Local Government
14 12 (2.43%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.82%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.82%) Military
16 8 (1.62%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 121 (24.49%) Senior
2 119 (24.09%) Analyst
3 79 (15.99%) ITSM Analyst
4 67 (13.56%) Senior Analyst
5 61 (12.35%) Support Analyst
6 57 (11.54%) Lead
7 52 (10.53%) Process Analyst
8 51 (10.32%) Developer
9 40 (8.10%) Senior Process Analyst
10 36 (7.29%) Senior Support Analyst
11 30 (6.07%) Service Analyst
12 29 (5.87%) IT Manager
13 28 (5.67%) Service Manager
14 26 (5.26%) Consultant
14 26 (5.26%) IT Analyst
15 24 (4.86%) Administrator
16 23 (4.66%) Senior Developer
17 21 (4.25%) IT Services Manager
18 20 (4.05%) Service Management Analyst
18 20 (4.05%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.73%) REST
2 35 (7.09%) Terraform
3 27 (5.47%) Middleware
4 26 (5.26%) SOAP
5 19 (3.85%) .NET
5 19 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
6 18 (3.64%) JSON
7 13 (2.63%) XML
8 12 (2.43%) EDI
9 10 (2.02%) PySpark
10 9 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (1.62%) YAML
12 7 (1.42%) ARM Templates
12 7 (1.42%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.42%) OAuth
12 7 (1.42%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.42%) React
13 6 (1.21%) JWT
13 6 (1.21%) Spring
13 6 (1.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.74%) Management Information System
2 28 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 25 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
5 19 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.83%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.82%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.21%) Life Science
11 6 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.01%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.01%) CMDB
12 5 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.81%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.81%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.26%) Linux
2 17 (3.44%) Windows
3 8 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.01%) Unix
5 4 (0.81%) zOS
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (49.60%) Continuous Improvement
2 182 (36.84%) ITIL
3 172 (34.82%) Change Management
3 172 (34.82%) DevOps
4 143 (28.95%) CI/CD
5 139 (28.14%) Service Management
6 132 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (26.52%) Decision-Making
8 129 (26.11%) Agile
9 127 (25.71%) Project Delivery
10 125 (25.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 122 (24.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 120 (24.29%) ITSM
13 114 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
14 108 (21.86%) Problem Management
15 101 (20.45%) Risk Management
16 99 (20.04%) User Experience
17 95 (19.23%) Acceptance Criteria
18 85 (17.21%) Logistics
19 79 (15.99%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 89 (18.02%) SQL
2 49 (9.92%) Python
3 25 (5.06%) C#
4 20 (4.05%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.24%) Java
5 16 (3.24%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.83%) Apex Code
7 10 (2.02%) C++
8 8 (1.62%) Bash
8 8 (1.62%) COBOL
9 7 (1.42%) SOQL
9 7 (1.42%) SOSL
9 7 (1.42%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.21%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.81%) JCL
11 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.61%) Bicep
12 3 (0.61%) C
12 3 (0.61%) Perl
12 3 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 129 (26.11%) Degree
2 49 (9.92%) Security Cleared
3 38 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.44%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.04%) PMP
6 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.23%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.20%) CISA
11 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.20%) CISM
11 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (14.57%) QA
2 43 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 28 (5.67%) GDPR
4 20 (4.05%) PMO
5 13 (2.63%) SLA
6 12 (2.43%) TickIT
7 11 (2.23%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.62%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.81%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.61%) GRC
11 3 (0.61%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.40%) GxP
12 2 (0.40%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.40%) SOC 3
System Software
1 16 (3.24%) Docker
2 14 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.81%) Firmware
5 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.61%) IAG
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (3.24%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.04%) Ansible
3 5 (1.01%) Grafana
4 4 (0.81%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.40%) Argo
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.40%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.20%) Packer
7 1 (0.20%) Puppet
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 126 (25.51%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.50%) Salesforce
3 38 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 24 (4.86%) SAP
5 18 (3.64%) Oracle
6 16 (3.24%) Databricks
6 16 (3.24%) HP
7 14 (2.83%) Workday
8 13 (2.63%) Google
9 9 (1.82%) FIS
9 9 (1.82%) SunGard
10 8 (1.62%) VMware
11 7 (1.42%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.21%) Concur
12 6 (1.21%) LogicMonitor
13 5 (1.01%) Alteryx
13 5 (1.01%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.01%) iManage
13 5 (1.01%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.01%) NetApp