Release Manager Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Release Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Release Manager salary for remote or hybrid work is £56,745 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 415 563 626
Rank change year-on-year +148 +63 +160
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Manager 17 20 36
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.059% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.062% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 19
10th Percentile £50,200 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,172 £45,813 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,745 £65,000 £64,179
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +1.28% +6.97%
75th Percentile £67,051 £74,063 £67,745
90th Percentile £68,568 £77,500 £75,500
UK median annual salary £56,745 £64,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -11.34% +8.94% +0.74%

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 14,908 32,504 40,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.86% 96.00% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,956 24,955 28,926
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,005 £36,679
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Release Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Release Manager
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Release Manager salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Release Manager
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Release Manager over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Release Manager salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, 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 Release Manager in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) DevOps
2 13 (76.47%) Agile
3 12 (70.59%) ITIL
3 12 (70.59%) Release Management
4 11 (64.71%) Service Management
5 9 (52.94%) ITSM
6 8 (47.06%) Retail
6 8 (47.06%) Service Delivery
6 8 (47.06%) Product Management
6 8 (47.06%) QA
6 8 (47.06%) Project Delivery
7 7 (41.18%) AWS
8 5 (29.41%) Azure
8 5 (29.41%) Change Management
9 4 (23.53%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
9 4 (23.53%) Degree
9 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
9 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
9 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
9 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
9 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (17.65%) Static Application Security Testing
10 3 (17.65%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 3 (17.65%) Application Security
10 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
10 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
10 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
10 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) AppScan
1 3 (17.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
1 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (47.06%) Retail
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) DevOps
2 13 (76.47%) Agile
3 12 (70.59%) ITIL
3 12 (70.59%) Release Management
4 11 (64.71%) Service Management
5 9 (52.94%) ITSM
6 8 (47.06%) Product Management
6 8 (47.06%) Project Delivery
6 8 (47.06%) Service Delivery
7 5 (29.41%) Change Management
8 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
9 3 (17.65%) Application Security
9 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
9 3 (17.65%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (17.65%) RAD
9 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (17.65%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
1 4 (23.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) QA
2 3 (17.65%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Ansible
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
1 3 (17.65%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Atlassian
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow