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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 428 477
Rank change year-on-year -53 +49 -87
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 242 241 467
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.55% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.59% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 159 161 341
10th Percentile £50,700 £48,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £64,627 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £85,375 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £113,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +0.84% +3.48%

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 66,794 40,810 82,365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.22%
Number of salaries quoted 42,940 22,598 59,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 15 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 12 May 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 -66 217 £72,500 +12.18% 105
UK excluding London -33 124 £70,000 +16.67% 84
London -43 88 £75,000 +15.38% 39
Work from Home +6 81 £71,250 +13.10% 73
North of England -7 45 £73,500 +33.64% 21
South East -16 26 £60,000 - 29
North West +7 22 £73,500 +5.00% 15
East of England -2 20 £59,450 -15.07% 7
Yorkshire -39 20 £82,500 +135.71% 6
South West -50 16 £62,500 -3.29% 8
Midlands -51 16 £75,000 +39.70% 12
West Midlands -44 13 £70,000 +30.38% 7
North East -35 3 £77,500 +40.91%
East Midlands -33 2 £75,000 +87.50% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 11 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.72%) Confluence
3 6 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.65%) IIS
5 3 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.83%) Apache
6 2 (0.83%) CICS
6 2 (0.83%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.83%) Windchill
4 1 (0.41%) Maya
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.83%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.41%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 107 (44.21%) Azure
2 66 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (16.94%) Power Platform
4 27 (11.16%) Dynamics 365
5 25 (10.33%) Entra ID
6 23 (9.50%) AWS
7 18 (7.44%) GitHub
8 17 (7.02%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (6.61%) GCP
10 15 (6.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 14 (5.79%) Boomi
12 13 (5.37%) Power Automate
12 13 (5.37%) PowerApps
12 13 (5.37%) SaaS
13 11 (4.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 10 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (4.13%) Serverless
15 9 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
16 8 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (3.31%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.48%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.41%) Broadband
2 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.33%) Power BI
2 16 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (5.79%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (4.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (3.31%) Spark SQL
6 8 (3.31%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.89%) Big Data
8 6 (2.48%) Metadata
8 6 (2.48%) MySQL
8 6 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.07%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (2.07%) DataStage
9 5 (2.07%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.07%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.07%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.07%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.07%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.07%) Pentaho
9 5 (2.07%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (14.88%) JIRA
2 21 (8.68%) Git
3 10 (4.13%) Eclipse
4 7 (2.89%) GitLab
5 6 (2.48%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.83%) ChangeMan
7 2 (0.83%) Subversion
7 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.41%) JMeter
8 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.41%) Postman
8 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.41%) Selenium
8 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 94 (38.84%) Social Skills
2 79 (32.64%) Finance
3 40 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.92%) Law
5 21 (8.68%) Marketing
6 13 (5.37%) Banking
6 13 (5.37%) Retail
7 12 (4.96%) Legal
8 11 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.31%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.89%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.24%) Games
11 3 (1.24%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.83%) Environmental Health
12 2 (0.83%) Military
12 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Billing
13 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (22.73%) Lead
2 48 (19.83%) Senior
3 36 (14.88%) Developer
4 26 (10.74%) Senior Developer
5 21 (8.68%) Analyst
6 16 (6.61%) Administrator
7 14 (5.79%) Software Manager
8 13 (5.37%) Applications Support
8 13 (5.37%) Technical Leader
9 12 (4.96%) Data Engineer
9 12 (4.96%) Systems Administrator
10 11 (4.55%) Architect
10 11 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
10 11 (4.55%) Release Manager
10 11 (4.55%) Salesforce Developer
10 11 (4.55%) Software Engineering Manager
11 10 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.72%) Applications Support Analyst
12 9 (3.72%) Consultant
12 9 (3.72%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.46%) REST
2 21 (8.68%) Middleware
2 21 (8.68%) SOAP
3 19 (7.85%) .NET
4 17 (7.02%) React
5 16 (6.61%) JSON
6 13 (5.37%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (4.96%) EDI
7 12 (4.96%) XML
8 11 (4.55%) PySpark
9 10 (4.13%) ARM Templates
9 10 (4.13%) CSS
9 10 (4.13%) HTML
10 7 (2.89%) .NET Core
11 6 (2.48%) Visualforce
12 3 (1.24%) YAML
13 2 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
13 2 (0.83%) Swagger
14 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
14 1 (0.41%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.92%) Data Structures
2 23 (9.50%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.37%) Enterprise Cloud
3 13 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.55%) Reinsurance
5 10 (4.13%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.89%) Culture of Ownership
7 7 (2.89%) Podcast
8 6 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.65%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.83%) CMDB
12 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.37%) Windows
2 9 (3.72%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.83%) Android
3 2 (0.83%) Linux
3 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (0.83%) zOS
4 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (50.83%) DevOps
2 94 (38.84%) CI/CD
3 92 (38.02%) Agile
4 68 (28.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 63 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (22.73%) Roadmaps
7 51 (21.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (19.01%) Incident Management
9 42 (17.36%) ITIL
10 36 (14.88%) Data Modelling
10 36 (14.88%) Integration Patterns
11 35 (14.46%) AI
11 35 (14.46%) Test Automation
12 34 (14.05%) Change Management
12 34 (14.05%) Scrum
13 31 (12.81%) Service Management
13 31 (12.81%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (12.40%) ERP
14 30 (12.40%) Software Engineering
15 28 (11.57%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 82 (33.88%) SQL
2 33 (13.64%) Python
3 18 (7.44%) JavaScript
4 17 (7.02%) PowerShell
5 11 (4.55%) Apex Code
6 10 (4.13%) Java
7 9 (3.72%) SOQL
8 8 (3.31%) SOSL
9 7 (2.89%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.48%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.24%) Bash
11 3 (1.24%) C#
12 2 (0.83%) Bicep
12 2 (0.83%) COBOL
12 2 (0.83%) JCL
12 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) Korn
13 1 (0.41%) Perl
13 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (15.29%) Degree
2 13 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (5.37%) PMI Certification
2 13 (5.37%) PMP
2 13 (5.37%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.72%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.07%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.65%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.24%) MBA
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.41%) CCSK
8 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (19.42%) QA
2 25 (10.33%) Data Quality
3 19 (7.85%) GDPR
4 13 (5.37%) GRC
5 12 (4.96%) TickIT
6 11 (4.55%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.89%) PMO
8 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.65%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.24%) SLA
10 2 (0.83%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.83%) ISO 9000
10 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.41%) NIST
11 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (4.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.65%) Docker
3 3 (1.24%) IAG
3 3 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.41%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 22 (9.09%) Terraform
2 14 (5.79%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.31%) Ansible
4 3 (1.24%) Grafana
5 2 (0.83%) CA Endevor
5 2 (0.83%) SCCM
5 2 (0.83%) SCOM
6 1 (0.41%) Argo
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.41%) Packer
6 1 (0.41%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.81%) Salesforce
3 29 (11.98%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.20%) Databricks
5 12 (4.96%) Oracle
6 7 (2.89%) SAP
7 5 (2.07%) Informatica
7 5 (2.07%) Talend
8 4 (1.65%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.65%) VMware
9 3 (1.24%) Google
9 3 (1.24%) Intapp
9 3 (1.24%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.24%) Remedy
10 2 (0.83%) BMC
10 2 (0.83%) Citrix
10 2 (0.83%) Dell
10 2 (0.83%) Infor
10 2 (0.83%) Isilon
11 1 (0.41%) Juniper