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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 460 434
Rank change year-on-year +76 -26 -114
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 526 215 361
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.44% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.49% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 280 144 232
10th Percentile £38,772 £32,500 £45,680
25th Percentile £48,469 £47,688 £52,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £96,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,475 £48,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year +20.57% -14.20% -

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 86,825 43,614 58,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 88.89% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59,360 24,460 31,261
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +17 400 £68,750 +14.58% 458
UK excluding London +61 350 £58,475 +20.57% 189
Work from Home +42 197 £67,000 -2.55% 178
London -15 147 £83,000 +7.10% 265
Northern Ireland - 97 - - 9
North of England -8 78 £64,500 +43.33% 49
South East +1 74 £60,000 +118.18% 49
North West -1 42 £70,000 +7.69% 34
Midlands -44 37 £52,500 -2.21% 30
Yorkshire -12 29 £55,000 -8.33% 12
South West -55 28 £64,000 +16.36% 20
West Midlands -45 24 £51,250 -4.54% 26
East of England -17 22 £55,000 - 16
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 4
Scotland +9 9 £33,000 +49.13% 10
North East -67 7 £55,000 +57.14% 3
Wales -76 5 £115,000 +137.11% 6

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 25 (4.75%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.28%) Confluence
3 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.14%) Apache
5 5 (0.95%) Camunda
6 4 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.76%) CICS
7 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.57%) IIS
7 3 (0.57%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.76%) Windchill
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (3.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.14%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.57%) Carpe Diem
5 3 (0.57%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Maximo
6 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.38%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.19%) Actimize
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 163 (30.99%) Azure
2 95 (18.06%) Power Platform
3 90 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (10.08%) AWS
5 47 (8.94%) Dynamics 365
5 47 (8.94%) SaaS
6 38 (7.22%) GitHub
6 38 (7.22%) PowerApps
7 34 (6.46%) Power Automate
8 31 (5.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 28 (5.32%) Entra ID
10 21 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (3.80%) Serverless
12 17 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 17 (3.23%) GCP
13 14 (2.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 13 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (2.28%) Azure Functions
16 11 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (2.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.33%) DNS
2 5 (0.95%) ATM
2 5 (0.95%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.95%) VPN
3 3 (0.57%) NAS
3 3 (0.57%) SAN
4 2 (0.38%) FTP
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) Intranet
5 1 (0.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.98%) Power BI
2 27 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.99%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.09%) Metadata
5 11 (2.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.95%) Db2
9 5 (0.95%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.95%) Power Query
9 5 (0.95%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.95%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.76%) GIS
10 4 (0.76%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 56 (10.65%) JIRA
2 51 (9.70%) Git
3 16 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.66%) GitLab
5 6 (1.14%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.95%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.95%) JUnit
6 5 (0.95%) Mockito
7 4 (0.76%) ChangeMan
8 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.38%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.38%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.19%) git-flow
10 1 (0.19%) mountebank
10 1 (0.19%) Postman
10 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.19%) Subversion
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 284 (53.99%) Social Skills
2 186 (35.36%) Analytical Skills
3 174 (33.08%) Finance
4 95 (18.06%) Presentation Skills
5 46 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 35 (6.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (6.65%) Law
7 27 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (4.18%) Banking
9 21 (3.99%) Marketing
10 20 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.85%) Retail
12 14 (2.66%) Investment Banking
12 14 (2.66%) Manufacturing
13 12 (2.28%) Front Office
13 12 (2.28%) Legal
13 12 (2.28%) Local Government
13 12 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 11 (2.09%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 149 (28.33%) Analyst
2 126 (23.95%) Senior
3 104 (19.77%) ITSM Analyst
4 81 (15.40%) Senior Analyst
5 80 (15.21%) Support Analyst
6 70 (13.31%) Process Analyst
7 57 (10.84%) Lead
8 48 (9.13%) Developer
9 47 (8.94%) Senior Process Analyst
10 43 (8.17%) Senior Support Analyst
11 38 (7.22%) IT Analyst
12 37 (7.03%) Service Analyst
13 30 (5.70%) IT Manager
14 27 (5.13%) Service Management Analyst
15 26 (4.94%) Service Manager
16 23 (4.37%) Administrator
17 22 (4.18%) Consultant
17 22 (4.18%) Release Manager
18 21 (3.99%) IT Services Manager
19 19 (3.61%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.56%) REST
2 32 (6.08%) Terraform
3 22 (4.18%) .NET
4 20 (3.80%) Middleware
5 19 (3.61%) Lightning Web Components
5 19 (3.61%) SOAP
6 9 (1.71%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (1.71%) JSON
7 8 (1.52%) OAuth
7 8 (1.52%) OAuth2
7 8 (1.52%) PySpark
7 8 (1.52%) Spring
7 8 (1.52%) Spring Boot
7 8 (1.52%) XML
8 7 (1.33%) ASP.NET
8 7 (1.33%) JWT
8 7 (1.33%) OpenID
8 7 (1.33%) YAML
9 6 (1.14%) Kafka
9 6 (1.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.41%) Management Information System
2 29 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 28 (5.32%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.42%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.28%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.71%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.14%) Life Science
11 5 (0.95%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.95%) CMDB
11 5 (0.95%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.76%) Robotics
12 4 (0.76%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.75%) Linux
2 18 (3.42%) Windows
3 8 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.95%) Unix
5 4 (0.76%) zOS
6 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (58.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 218 (41.44%) ITIL
3 201 (38.21%) Change Management
4 169 (32.13%) DevOps
5 168 (31.94%) Service Management
6 158 (30.04%) Project Delivery
7 155 (29.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 153 (29.09%) Decision-Making
9 144 (27.38%) ITSM
10 143 (27.19%) CI/CD
11 142 (27.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 140 (26.62%) Agile
12 140 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
13 134 (25.48%) Problem Management
13 134 (25.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 133 (25.29%) Risk Management
15 126 (23.95%) User Experience
16 120 (22.81%) Acceptance Criteria
17 111 (21.10%) Logistics
18 104 (19.77%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 82 (15.59%) SQL
2 42 (7.98%) Python
3 27 (5.13%) C#
4 18 (3.42%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.04%) Java
6 15 (2.85%) Apex Code
6 15 (2.85%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.90%) C++
8 9 (1.71%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.52%) COBOL
10 7 (1.33%) SOQL
10 7 (1.33%) SOSL
11 5 (0.95%) Bash
11 5 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.76%) Bicep
12 4 (0.76%) JCL
12 4 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.76%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.57%) C
13 3 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 161 (30.61%) Degree
2 47 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.65%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.61%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.23%) PMP
6 16 (3.04%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.66%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.09%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.19%) CCSK
13 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.19%) CSPO
13 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (13.50%) QA
2 43 (8.17%) Data Quality
3 26 (4.94%) GDPR
4 18 (3.42%) PMO
5 12 (2.28%) SLA
6 11 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.52%) Def Stans
7 8 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.95%) TickIT
9 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.76%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.57%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.38%) GxP
11 2 (0.38%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.38%) SOC 3
System Software
1 18 (3.42%) Docker
2 12 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.76%) Firmware
5 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.57%) IAG
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.09%) Ansible
3 6 (1.14%) Grafana
4 4 (0.76%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.38%) Argo
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.38%) SCCM
6 2 (0.38%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 122 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.98%) ServiceNow
3 41 (7.79%) Salesforce
4 25 (4.75%) SAP
5 19 (3.61%) Oracle
6 17 (3.23%) Google
7 16 (3.04%) Databricks
7 16 (3.04%) HP
8 15 (2.85%) Workday
9 9 (1.71%) FIS
9 9 (1.71%) Pega
9 9 (1.71%) SunGard
10 8 (1.52%) VMware
11 7 (1.33%) Concur
11 7 (1.33%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.14%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.14%) iManage
13 5 (0.95%) NetApp
13 5 (0.95%) Okta