Release Management Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Release Management
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Release Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 101 108
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 +48
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 6 1 32
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.33% 0.070% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.079% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 12
10th Percentile £53,125 - -
25th Percentile £55,938 £76,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +55.00% -21.91%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,750 £66,563
90th Percentile - - £67,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,473 1,263 1,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.23% 88.20% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 862 625 1,436
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Release Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Release Management job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Release Management
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Release Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Release Management

Release Management
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Leeds -13 4 £60,000 -22.58%
Bradford - 2 - - 1
Release Management
Yorkshire

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) HCL Notes
2 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (50.00%) dbt
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
1 3 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (50.00%) Data Vault
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Pandas
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (33.33%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Protection
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Debt
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Data Development
2 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
2 3 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 3 (50.00%) People Management
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Lotus
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow