Release Manager Jobs

Release Manager
UK

The median Release Manager salary in the UK is £64,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
28 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 875 1119
Rank change year-on-year +25 +244 -318
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Manager 64 77 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.079% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.087% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 53 55 86
10th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £50,250 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £58,750 £58,318
Median % change year-on-year +8.94% +0.74% -6.69%
75th Percentile £74,500 £70,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,500 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.50% -2.73% -9.95%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Release Manager in the UK

Release Manager
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Release Manager in the UK

Release Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Manager over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Release Manager in the UK

Release Manager
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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 +61 57 £63,749 +8.51% 17
UK excluding London -35 40 £65,000 +21.50% 7
London +147 20 £61,500 -4.17% 8
Work from Home +53 20 £65,000 +1.28% 7
South West -23 14 £73,000 +98.56% 2
South East -4 8 £38,000 -28.97% 3
North of England +36 7 £62,500 -7.41%
Midlands -1 7 £40,000 -5.88% 2
North West +7 4 £65,000 -
East Midlands -13 4 £40,000 -5.88% 2
West Midlands +12 3 £63,749 +2.00%
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Yorkshire +65 2 £41,500 -38.52%
Scotland -60 1 £75,000 +42.86%
North East - 1 £60,000 -

Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 job ads featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 32 (50.00%) Release Management
2 20 (31.25%) ITIL
3 18 (28.13%) DevOps
3 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
4 16 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 15 (23.44%) Azure
5 15 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (20.31%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (17.19%) Salesforce
7 11 (17.19%) AWS
8 10 (15.63%) Oracle
9 9 (14.06%) Configuration Management
9 9 (14.06%) Change Management
9 9 (14.06%) Agile
9 9 (14.06%) Trend Analysis
9 9 (14.06%) System Integration Testing
9 9 (14.06%) Customer Service
10 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (10.94%) Degree
11 7 (10.94%) Finance
12 6 (9.38%) Service Delivery
12 6 (9.38%) Software Engineering
13 5 (7.81%) Roadmaps
13 5 (7.81%) Police
13 5 (7.81%) Retail
13 5 (7.81%) Service Management
14 4 (6.25%) CMS
14 4 (6.25%) Law
14 4 (6.25%) Validation
14 4 (6.25%) SQL

Release Manager Skill Set
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 4 (6.25%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.56%) SAP HCM
1 1 (1.56%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.44%) Azure
2 11 (17.19%) AWS
3 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.69%) PaaS
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.56%) GCP
5 1 (1.56%) SaaS
5 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.56%) Gradle
2 1 (1.56%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Maven
General
1 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Police
3 5 (7.81%) Retail
4 4 (6.25%) Law
4 4 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Tech for Good
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) CMDB
2 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.56%) IoT
3 1 (1.56%) Life Science
3 1 (1.56%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) Release Management
2 20 (31.25%) ITIL
3 18 (28.13%) DevOps
4 16 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 15 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (20.31%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (14.06%) Agile
7 9 (14.06%) Change Management
7 9 (14.06%) Configuration Management
7 9 (14.06%) Customer Service
7 9 (14.06%) System Integration Testing
7 9 (14.06%) Trend Analysis
8 6 (9.38%) Service Delivery
8 6 (9.38%) Software Engineering
9 5 (7.81%) Roadmaps
9 5 (7.81%) Service Management
10 4 (6.25%) Change Advisory Board
10 4 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (6.25%) Decision-Making
10 4 (6.25%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (1.56%) Python
2 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) Degree
2 3 (4.69%) APMP
2 3 (4.69%) ISEB
2 3 (4.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) QA
1 4 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (1.56%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.56%) Packer
2 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.56%) Puppet
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Salesforce
2 10 (15.63%) Oracle
3 4 (6.25%) Apple
4 2 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.56%) Workday