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 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 169 186 198
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 -1
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 30 67 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.70% 0.91% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.10% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 28 50 58
10th Percentile £53,482 £52,500 £39,490
25th Percentile - £60,000 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% +50.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,125 £82,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,775 £63,750
England median annual salary £64,627 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.40% - -

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 3,916 6,106 6,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.18% 82.86% 96.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,639 4,548 3,220
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.85% +5.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,108 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
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 14 May 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 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
Staffordshire +35 17 £53,688 - 5
Birmingham +32 4 £62,500 -16.67% 13
Warwickshire -21 2 £58,000 -22.67% 5
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 8 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) SaaS
3 9 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (26.67%) AWS
4 8 (26.67%) GitHub
4 8 (26.67%) Power Automate
4 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
4 8 (26.67%) PowerApps
5 7 (23.33%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (23.33%) IaaS
5 7 (23.33%) PaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) BGP
1 1 (3.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) IPsec
1 1 (3.33%) Network Security
1 1 (3.33%) OpenScape
1 1 (3.33%) OSPF
1 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.33%) VPN
1 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Data Hub
2 1 (3.33%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 12 (40.00%) Police
2 10 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Automotive
5 1 (3.33%) Back Office
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 7 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Power Platform Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Associate Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Environment And Release Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Release Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Applications Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Communications Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Integration Architect
7 1 (3.33%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.33%) IT Services Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Service Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) .NET
2 7 (23.33%) ARM Templates
2 7 (23.33%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.33%) CSS
3 1 (3.33%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.33%) Flutter
3 1 (3.33%) HTML
3 1 (3.33%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Management Information System
2 7 (23.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.33%) Android
3 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Data Transformation
1 10 (33.33%) DevOps
1 10 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 9 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
3 8 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (26.67%) ITIL
3 8 (26.67%) Software Engineering
3 8 (26.67%) Test Automation
3 8 (26.67%) User Experience
4 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
4 7 (23.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (23.33%) DevSecOps
4 7 (23.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 7 (23.33%) Functional Testing
4 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
4 7 (23.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 7 (23.33%) Performance Analysis
4 7 (23.33%) Project Management
4 7 (23.33%) Static Application Security Testing
5 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) C#
2 10 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) Dart
4 1 (3.33%) PHP
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) CCNP
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (33.33%) QA
2 7 (23.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Firmware
4 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 7 (23.33%) Ansible
2 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) VMware
3 3 (10.00%) Citrix
3 3 (10.00%) Dell
3 3 (10.00%) Isilon
4 1 (3.33%) Aruba
4 1 (3.33%) BMC
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) F5
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) IBM
4 1 (3.33%) Juniper
4 1 (3.33%) Remedy
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow