Release Management Jobs

Release Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Release Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Release Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 370 442
Rank change year-on-year -81 +72 -38
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 557 817 1,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.86% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.90% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 345 483 745
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,500 £39,850
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,250 £57,164 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.65% -0.59% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Release Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England -73 463 £62,500 - 104
UK excluding London -50 420 £59,250 +3.65% 71
Work from Home -28 266 £60,000 -4.00% 41
London +6 124 £65,000 -3.70% 36
South East -24 118 £59,000 -8.88% 26
Midlands +6 91 £63,750 +27.50% 14
North of England -57 78 £52,500 -12.50% 11
West Midlands -7 69 £75,000 +50.00% 11
North West -24 62 £55,000 -3.79% 6
South West -17 40 £67,500 -6.90% 7
Wales +19 37 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Scotland -47 32 £53,614 +19.14% 4
East Midlands -6 22 £40,000 -5.88% 3
Yorkshire -6 16 £39,439 -34.27% 4
East of England -31 12 £68,500 +24.55% 7
Northern Ireland +25 9 £70,000 - 1
Isle of Man - 3 - -

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 64 (11.49%) Apache
2 45 (8.08%) WebLogic
3 43 (7.72%) Oracle Service Bus
4 22 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (2.15%) Confluence
6 10 (1.80%) IIS
7 9 (1.62%) CMS
8 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.90%) nginx
9 5 (0.90%) NServiceBus
10 4 (0.72%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.72%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.54%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.36%) GlassFish
12 2 (0.36%) JCAPS
12 2 (0.36%) Liferay
12 2 (0.36%) Magnolia
12 2 (0.36%) SAS
12 2 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
12 2 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 69 (12.39%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (9.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (7.90%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 46 (8.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 23 (4.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (3.05%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 17 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 13 (2.33%) Infor SunSystems
4 13 (2.33%) iTrent
5 12 (2.15%) PlanetPress Connect
6 3 (0.54%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 3 (0.54%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.36%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 170 (30.52%) Azure
2 57 (10.23%) Amazon S3
3 56 (10.05%) AWS
4 53 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (7.72%) SaaS
6 42 (7.54%) Power Platform
7 33 (5.92%) Entra ID
8 27 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
8 27 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
9 22 (3.95%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (3.77%) PaaS
10 21 (3.77%) PowerApps
11 19 (3.41%) Power Automate
12 17 (3.05%) Azure Storage
12 17 (3.05%) IaaS
13 16 (2.87%) GitHub
14 13 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (1.80%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 87 (15.62%) Firewall
2 60 (10.77%) VPN
3 59 (10.59%) Internet
4 54 (9.69%) IPsec
4 54 (9.69%) SNMP
5 32 (5.75%) DNS
6 30 (5.39%) DHCP
7 15 (2.69%) WAN
8 14 (2.51%) LAN
9 13 (2.33%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.26%) BGP
10 7 (1.26%) EIGRP
10 7 (1.26%) HSRP
10 7 (1.26%) MPLS
10 7 (1.26%) OSPF
10 7 (1.26%) Spanning Tree
10 7 (1.26%) VoIP
10 7 (1.26%) VRRP
10 7 (1.26%) Wireless
10 7 (1.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 57 (10.23%) Elasticsearch
3 54 (9.69%) MongoDB
4 50 (8.98%) Oracle Database
5 43 (7.72%) Oracle Database 10g
5 43 (7.72%) Oracle Database 11g
5 43 (7.72%) VLDB
6 37 (6.64%) Power BI
7 33 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (2.87%) Data Lake
11 13 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
11 13 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (2.15%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.80%) NoSQL
14 8 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.90%) Delta Lake
16 4 (0.72%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 46 (8.26%) JIRA
2 22 (3.95%) Git
3 16 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.69%) TeamCity
5 13 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 12 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 9 (1.62%) JUnit
8 8 (1.44%) GitLab
8 8 (1.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (1.44%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.26%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.26%) Selenium
10 6 (1.08%) AdminStudio
10 6 (1.08%) InstallShield
10 6 (1.08%) Maven
10 6 (1.08%) MSI
10 6 (1.08%) RStudio
11 5 (0.90%) Subversion
12 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 171 (30.70%) Finance
2 138 (24.78%) Social Skills
3 81 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.46%) Retail
5 32 (5.75%) Marketing
6 28 (5.03%) Legal
7 18 (3.23%) Aerospace
7 18 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.23%) Law
8 16 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.51%) Back Office
11 10 (1.80%) Banking
12 8 (1.44%) Electronics
13 7 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.08%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.90%) Local Government
15 5 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 92 (16.52%) Analyst
2 74 (13.29%) Applications Support
2 74 (13.29%) Senior
3 65 (11.67%) Consultant
4 63 (11.31%) Support Analyst
5 62 (11.13%) Applications Support Analyst
6 55 (9.87%) Lead
7 54 (9.69%) NetApp Consultant
8 44 (7.90%) Developer
9 43 (7.72%) Oracle Analyst
9 43 (7.72%) Oracle Support Analyst
9 43 (7.72%) SQL Analyst
9 43 (7.72%) SQL Support Analyst
10 33 (5.92%) Release Manager
11 29 (5.21%) Senior Developer
12 25 (4.49%) Architect
13 23 (4.13%) Active Directory Specialist
13 23 (4.13%) Azure Specialist
14 22 (3.95%) Applications Engineer
14 22 (3.95%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.69%) RabbitMQ
1 54 (9.69%) YAML
2 35 (6.28%) .NET
3 28 (5.03%) ARM Templates
4 21 (3.77%) React
5 18 (3.23%) REST
6 17 (3.05%) XML
7 16 (2.87%) Web Services
8 15 (2.69%) JSON
9 14 (2.51%) GraphQL
10 11 (1.97%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.80%) .NET Framework
11 10 (1.80%) Azure Blueprints
11 10 (1.80%) HTML
12 9 (1.62%) AngularJS
12 9 (1.62%) PySpark
13 8 (1.44%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (1.44%) CSS
13 8 (1.44%) Spring
14 7 (1.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.57%) Data Centre
2 37 (6.64%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.31%) PKI
4 23 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.23%) Client/Server
5 18 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (1.80%) Replication
8 9 (1.62%) IoT
8 9 (1.62%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.44%) Analogue Electronics
9 8 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (1.44%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.26%) Clustering
10 7 (1.26%) FMCG
11 6 (1.08%) Shadow IT
11 6 (1.08%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.90%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 167 (29.98%) Linux
2 129 (23.16%) Windows
3 58 (10.41%) Unix
4 54 (9.69%) Data ONTAP
5 47 (8.44%) Windows Server
6 43 (7.72%) Solaris
7 22 (3.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (3.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (1.80%) Windows 10
9 7 (1.26%) Debian
9 7 (1.26%) Ubuntu
10 6 (1.08%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.72%) VMS
11 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.54%) Windows NT
13 2 (0.36%) AIX
14 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (29.98%) Agile
2 145 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
3 135 (24.24%) ITIL
4 118 (21.18%) Project Management
5 117 (21.01%) DevOps
6 107 (19.21%) Actionable Insight
7 80 (14.36%) CI/CD
8 70 (12.57%) ITSM
9 68 (12.21%) Service Management
10 62 (11.13%) Incident Management
11 59 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (10.59%) Project Planning
12 58 (10.41%) Performance Tuning
13 57 (10.23%) Change Management
14 56 (10.05%) Business Intelligence
14 56 (10.05%) Infrastructure Management
15 54 (9.69%) Storage Management
16 53 (9.52%) Analytics
16 53 (9.52%) Customer Service
17 51 (9.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 142 (25.49%) SQL
2 79 (14.18%) Python
3 64 (11.49%) C#
4 51 (9.16%) PowerShell
5 44 (7.90%) PL/SQL
6 34 (6.10%) VB
7 31 (5.57%) T-SQL
8 28 (5.03%) Java
9 27 (4.85%) JavaScript
10 23 (4.13%) VBScript
11 21 (3.77%) TypeScript
12 17 (3.05%) Bash
12 17 (3.05%) Bicep
13 11 (1.97%) Go
14 10 (1.80%) C
15 9 (1.62%) C++
16 6 (1.08%) R
16 6 (1.08%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.90%) PHP
17 5 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (22.44%) Security Cleared
2 122 (21.90%) Degree
3 92 (16.52%) SC Cleared
4 51 (9.16%) DV Cleared
5 21 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 11 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.62%) CISSP
11 7 (1.26%) CCDP
11 7 (1.26%) CCIE
11 7 (1.26%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 7 (1.26%) CCNP
11 7 (1.26%) CISA
11 7 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.08%) APMP
12 6 (1.08%) ISEB
12 6 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.90%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (15.26%) SLA
2 48 (8.62%) QA
3 19 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.97%) PMO
5 10 (1.80%) NCSC
6 9 (1.62%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.90%) GDPR
9 4 (0.72%) NIST
10 3 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.18%) FISMA
12 1 (0.18%) HITRUST
12 1 (0.18%) IFRS
12 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 89 (15.98%) Docker
2 72 (12.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (9.87%) Active Directory
4 43 (7.72%) Oracle RAC
5 31 (5.57%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (4.67%) Firmware
7 21 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (1.97%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.54%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.54%) vSphere
11 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 125 (22.44%) Kubernetes
2 78 (14.00%) Ansible
3 55 (9.87%) vCenter Server
4 54 (9.69%) Prometheus
5 45 (8.08%) Terraform
6 43 (7.72%) Data Guard
6 43 (7.72%) Oracle RMAN
7 33 (5.92%) SCCM
8 26 (4.67%) WSUS
9 25 (4.49%) SCOM
10 23 (4.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (1.44%) NetBackup
12 8 (1.44%) Progress Chef
12 8 (1.44%) Puppet
13 7 (1.26%) Kibana
14 6 (1.08%) Nessus
15 4 (0.72%) Rancher
16 3 (0.54%) Argo
16 3 (0.54%) logstash
Vendors
1 148 (26.57%) Microsoft
2 94 (16.88%) VMware
3 58 (10.41%) Oracle
4 56 (10.05%) Red Hat
5 54 (9.69%) NetApp
5 54 (9.69%) Palo Alto
5 54 (9.69%) SolidFire
6 46 (8.26%) Remedy
7 45 (8.08%) Sun
8 33 (5.92%) SAP
9 15 (2.69%) Databricks
9 15 (2.69%) ServiceNow
10 13 (2.33%) Infor
11 12 (2.15%) FNZ
12 11 (1.97%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.80%) Cisco
14 9 (1.62%) Atlassian
15 8 (1.44%) Google
15 8 (1.44%) Sybase
16 7 (1.26%) McAfee