Release Management Jobs

Release Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Release Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Release Management over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 433 385
Rank change year-on-year -46 -48 +57
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 249 544 873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.55% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.64% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 157 340 504
10th Percentile £48,450 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,688 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,627 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,450 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,267 £87,500 £89,522
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +0.84% +5.31% +2.73%

All Process and 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 51,711 84,738 96,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.57% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 26,444 59,708 57,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.90% -9.09% +4.76%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Release Management.

Salary trend for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 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 -17 243 £64,627 +3.40% 252
UK excluding London -51 128 £60,000 +0.84% 185
London +113 118 £66,250 +1.92% 115
Work from Home -33 88 £64,627 +3.40% 166
Midlands +5 34 £53,688 -14.10% 25
South East +32 32 £60,000 +1.69% 50
North of England +8 32 £55,000 - 46
West Midlands +17 30 £53,688 -28.42% 17
North West -31 25 £70,000 +27.27% 25
South West +82 20 £64,627 -4.26% 19
East of England +41 7 £70,000 +2.19% 19
Yorkshire +66 5 £35,000 +7.69% 14
East Midlands +14 4 £40,000 - 6
Scotland +84 3 £47,292 -24.33% 16
North East - 2 £55,000 - 7

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (8.43%) Confluence
2 19 (7.63%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.41%) IIS
5 4 (1.61%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.20%) Apache
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Moodle
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.40%) SAS
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (9.24%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.81%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (6.43%) SAP ERP
1 16 (6.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.81%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (2.41%) Infor M3
4 3 (1.20%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.40%) Endur
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (36.55%) Azure
2 52 (20.88%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (17.27%) GitHub
4 34 (13.65%) SaaS
5 30 (12.05%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (10.84%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (10.84%) Power Platform
7 25 (10.04%) AWS
8 23 (9.24%) Power Automate
9 21 (8.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 20 (8.03%) PowerApps
11 17 (6.83%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (6.02%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (4.82%) Azure Functions
14 12 (4.82%) Datadog
14 12 (4.82%) Serverless
15 11 (4.42%) PaaS
16 10 (4.02%) OCI
17 8 (3.21%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.61%) Network Security
2 3 (1.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.40%) BGP
3 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.40%) IPsec
3 1 (0.40%) OpenScape
3 1 (0.40%) OSPF
3 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.40%) SAN
3 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.40%) SSH
3 1 (0.40%) VPN
3 1 (0.40%) WAN
3 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (17.67%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.02%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.22%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (4.42%) Power BI
5 9 (3.61%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.41%) Data Hub
6 6 (2.41%) SQL CLR
7 4 (1.61%) Big Data
7 4 (1.61%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.40%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.40%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.40%) MySQL
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (12.05%) JIRA
2 29 (11.65%) Git
3 22 (8.84%) Selenium
4 19 (7.63%) SonarQube
5 18 (7.23%) Jenkins
6 10 (4.02%) Postman
7 9 (3.61%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.61%) FitNesse
8 4 (1.61%) JMeter
8 4 (1.61%) Locust
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.61%) Robot Framework
8 4 (1.61%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.20%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.80%) Appium
10 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.80%) NUnit
10 2 (0.80%) Xcode
General
1 107 (42.97%) Finance
2 79 (31.73%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (10.84%) Law
3 27 (10.84%) Marketing
4 24 (9.64%) Banking
5 22 (8.84%) Manufacturing
6 14 (5.62%) Police
6 14 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.62%) Retail
7 9 (3.61%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.21%) Back Office
9 7 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.80%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Local Government
11 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.40%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 39 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (12.45%) Analyst
3 27 (10.84%) Developer
4 24 (9.64%) Architect
4 24 (9.64%) Senior
5 21 (8.43%) Enterprise Architect
5 21 (8.43%) Salesforce Architect
6 17 (6.83%) Release Manager
7 16 (6.43%) SAP Manager
7 16 (6.43%) Support Analyst
8 15 (6.02%) Lead
9 14 (5.62%) IT Manager
10 12 (4.82%) Change and Release Manager
10 12 (4.82%) Change Manager
11 9 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.61%) IT Change Manager
11 9 (3.61%) Unix Support
12 8 (3.21%) Applications Support
12 8 (3.21%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 8 (3.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.26%) .NET
2 28 (11.24%) REST
3 27 (10.84%) Middleware
4 23 (9.24%) SOAP
5 21 (8.43%) Lightning Web Components
6 16 (6.43%) SAP Fiori
7 15 (6.02%) .NET Framework
8 12 (4.82%) React
8 12 (4.82%) XML
9 10 (4.02%) CSS
9 10 (4.02%) HTML
10 9 (3.61%) Entity Framework
11 8 (3.21%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.21%) ARM Templates
11 8 (3.21%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (2.81%) Azure Blueprints
12 7 (2.81%) Web Services
13 6 (2.41%) .NET Core
13 6 (2.41%) Dapper ORM
13 6 (2.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.65%) Management Information System
2 25 (10.04%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (7.23%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.61%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.61%) Private Cloud
5 7 (2.81%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (2.01%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.61%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.80%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) Clustering
11 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.24%) Linux
2 20 (8.03%) Unix
3 19 (7.63%) Windows
4 8 (3.21%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.20%) Android
6 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (45.38%) Agile
2 111 (44.58%) DevOps
3 87 (34.94%) CI/CD
4 60 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 59 (23.69%) Change Management
6 53 (21.29%) ITIL
7 48 (19.28%) Computer Science
8 38 (15.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (14.46%) ERP
10 33 (13.25%) Test Automation
11 31 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (12.45%) Software Delivery
12 30 (12.05%) Data Modelling
12 30 (12.05%) Roadmaps
13 29 (11.65%) Microservices
14 28 (11.24%) Data Management
14 28 (11.24%) Data Privacy
14 28 (11.24%) Incident Management
15 27 (10.84%) E-Commerce
15 27 (10.84%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.69%) SQL
2 33 (13.25%) C#
3 27 (10.84%) Java
4 25 (10.04%) T-SQL
5 21 (8.43%) Apex Code
5 21 (8.43%) Python
6 18 (7.23%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.43%) ABAP
8 11 (4.42%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.61%) Bash
9 9 (3.61%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.20%) C++
10 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.20%) R
10 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.80%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.80%) Swift
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (16.06%) Degree
2 27 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (9.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (8.43%) Master's Degree
5 18 (7.23%) Security Cleared
6 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.01%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.01%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.20%) CCSK
10 3 (1.20%) CCSP
10 3 (1.20%) CISA
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.40%) CCNP
11 1 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.45%) QA
2 23 (9.24%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.81%) NCSC
4 6 (2.41%) GxP
5 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (10.04%) Docker
2 11 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.61%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.80%) Firmware
6 1 (0.40%) KVM
6 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 27 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.24%) Terraform
3 14 (5.62%) Ansible
4 6 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.20%) Control-M
6 2 (0.80%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) CFEngine
7 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.40%) Podman
7 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (25.30%) Microsoft
2 37 (14.86%) Oracle
3 27 (10.84%) Salesforce
4 22 (8.84%) SAP
5 21 (8.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 15 (6.02%) VMware
7 14 (5.62%) Databricks
8 6 (2.41%) Infor
8 6 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.61%) Dell
9 4 (1.61%) Google
10 3 (1.20%) Cisco
10 3 (1.20%) Citrix
10 3 (1.20%) IBM
10 3 (1.20%) Isilon
10 3 (1.20%) Trayport
10 3 (1.20%) Workday
11 2 (0.80%) Apple
12 1 (0.40%) Avaya
12 1 (0.40%) Juniper