Change and Release Manager Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Change and Release Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Change and Release Manager salary for remote or hybrid work is £56,745 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 587 663
Rank change year-on-year +183 +76 +168
Permanent jobs requiring a Change and Release Manager 9 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.006% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.006% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £55,996 £63,724 £51,250
25th Percentile - £67,270 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,745 £74,374 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.70% -2.46% +27.08%
75th Percentile £68,568 £80,284 £91,250
90th Percentile - £83,114 -
UK median annual salary £58,373 £40,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +45.93% -31.03% -3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Change and Release Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Change and Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Change and Release Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Change and Release Manager
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Change and Release Manager.

Change and Release Manager salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Change and Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Change and Release Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Change and Release Manager in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
1 9 (100.00%) Service Management
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) ITSM
1 9 (100.00%) Release Management
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) QA
2 8 (88.89%) Project Delivery
2 8 (88.89%) Product Management
2 8 (88.89%) Retail
2 8 (88.89%) Service Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) Change Management
3 4 (44.44%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Degree
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 1 (11.11%) Workload Management
4 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow

Change and Release Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
General
1 8 (88.89%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
1 9 (100.00%) ITSM
1 9 (100.00%) Release Management
1 9 (100.00%) Service Management
2 8 (88.89%) Product Management
2 8 (88.89%) Project Delivery
2 8 (88.89%) Service Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) Change Management
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Workload Management
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Certification
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow