Release Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Release Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 178 203
Rank change year-on-year +22 +25 -2
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 40 69 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.90% 0.95% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.15% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 38 52 59
10th Percentile £52,475 £44,625 £39,310
25th Percentile - £57,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% +50.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,313 £82,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,071 6,019 6,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 83.14% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,532 3,272
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £30,510
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the West Midlands

Release Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Release Management in the West Midlands

Release Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the West Midlands

Release Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Staffordshire +36 23 £53,688 +83.55% 4
Birmingham +19 6 £62,500 -16.67% 8
Warwickshire -34 3 £60,000 -20.00% 1
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 12 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.00%) IIS
4 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (40.00%) Azure
2 16 (40.00%) SaaS
3 12 (30.00%) IaaS
3 12 (30.00%) PaaS
4 10 (25.00%) AWS
4 10 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (22.50%) GitHub
5 9 (22.50%) Power Automate
5 9 (22.50%) Power Platform
6 8 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (20.00%) PowerApps
7 4 (10.00%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.50%) Firebase
8 1 (2.50%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
1 2 (5.00%) Network Security
1 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (5.00%) VPN
1 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.50%) BGP
2 1 (2.50%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.50%) IPsec
2 1 (2.50%) Junos
2 1 (2.50%) OpenScape
2 1 (2.50%) OSPF
2 1 (2.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Data Hub
2 1 (2.50%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 18 (45.00%) Police
2 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Automotive
6 1 (2.50%) Back Office
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 5 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Associate Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Environment And Release Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Integration Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Release Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Applications Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Applications Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) .NET
2 8 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 8 (20.00%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.50%) Flutter
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) Laravel
3 1 (2.50%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (17.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.50%) Clustering
6 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Android
4 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) DevOps
2 11 (27.50%) Data Transformation
2 11 (27.50%) Impact Assessments
2 11 (27.50%) ITIL
2 11 (27.50%) Roadmaps
3 10 (25.00%) Availability Management
3 10 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 9 (22.50%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (22.50%) Project Management
4 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
4 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
5 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 8 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 8 (20.00%) Functional Testing
5 8 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 8 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
5 8 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) C#
2 11 (27.50%) Java
3 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) Dart
4 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) PHP
4 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CCNA
4 1 (2.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) QA
2 8 (20.00%) NCSC
3 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (7.50%) Firmware
5 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Terraform
2 8 (20.00%) Ansible
2 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) VMware
3 4 (10.00%) Citrix
3 4 (10.00%) Dell
4 3 (7.50%) Isilon
5 2 (5.00%) Aruba
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) F5
5 2 (5.00%) IBM
5 2 (5.00%) Juniper
6 1 (2.50%) BMC
6 1 (2.50%) EqualLogic
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Remedy
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow