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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 387 451
Rank change year-on-year -60 +64 -62
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 540 846 1,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.85% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.89% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 334 492 748
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,125
Median % change year-on-year - +3.95% +0.21%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,625 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £57,164 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.09% +3.93% -

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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 May 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 18 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 -56 443 £62,500 - 120
UK excluding London -62 409 £59,500 +4.09% 69
Work from Home -16 269 £60,000 -5.16% 54
London -19 120 £65,000 -7.14% 57
South East -28 103 £59,000 -8.53% 30
Midlands -1 88 £65,000 +32.65% 15
North of England -43 75 £55,000 -8.33% 4
West Midlands +8 65 £75,000 +50.00% 11
North West -13 62 £55,000 -10.20% 2
South West -18 45 £67,500 +3.85% 7
Wales +17 37 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Scotland -36 37 £57,500 - 3
East Midlands +5 23 £40,000 -5.88% 4
Yorkshire +1 13 £32,500 -45.83% 2
East of England -25 12 £68,500 +24.55% 9
Northern Ireland +25 9 £70,000 -
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 63 (11.67%) Apache
2 45 (8.33%) WebLogic
3 43 (7.96%) Oracle Service Bus
4 19 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.85%) IIS
6 9 (1.67%) Confluence
7 8 (1.48%) CMS
8 7 (1.30%) SharePoint
9 6 (1.11%) nginx
10 5 (0.93%) NServiceBus
11 4 (0.74%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.56%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.37%) GlassFish
13 2 (0.37%) JCAPS
13 2 (0.37%) Liferay
13 2 (0.37%) Magnolia
13 2 (0.37%) SAS
13 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 67 (12.41%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (10.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (8.15%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 46 (8.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (3.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 17 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (2.96%) PlanetPress Connect
5 13 (2.41%) Infor SunSystems
5 13 (2.41%) iTrent
6 3 (0.56%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 3 (0.56%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.37%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 170 (31.48%) Azure
2 57 (10.56%) Amazon S3
3 55 (10.19%) AWS
4 54 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
6 42 (7.78%) SaaS
7 37 (6.85%) Power Platform
8 30 (5.56%) Entra ID
9 24 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
10 22 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 21 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (3.89%) PaaS
12 18 (3.33%) Power Automate
13 17 (3.15%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.96%) GitHub
14 16 (2.96%) IaaS
15 15 (2.78%) Azure Storage
16 13 (2.41%) GCP
16 13 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 85 (15.74%) Firewall
2 60 (11.11%) VPN
3 59 (10.93%) Internet
4 54 (10.00%) IPsec
4 54 (10.00%) SNMP
5 29 (5.37%) DNS
6 27 (5.00%) DHCP
7 15 (2.78%) WAN
8 14 (2.59%) LAN
9 13 (2.41%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.30%) HSRP
10 7 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (1.30%) MPLS
10 7 (1.30%) OSPF
10 7 (1.30%) Spanning Tree
10 7 (1.30%) VLAN
10 7 (1.30%) VoIP
10 7 (1.30%) Wireless
10 7 (1.30%) Wireshark
10 7 (1.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 57 (10.56%) Elasticsearch
3 54 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 50 (9.26%) Oracle Database
5 43 (7.96%) Oracle Database 10g
5 43 (7.96%) Oracle Database 11g
5 43 (7.96%) VLDB
6 37 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (6.30%) Power BI
8 27 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (2.96%) Data Lake
11 13 (2.41%) BusinessObjects
12 12 (2.22%) NoSQL
12 12 (2.22%) Relational Database
13 11 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.93%) Delta Lake
16 4 (0.74%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 48 (8.89%) JIRA
2 22 (4.07%) Git
3 17 (3.15%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 14 (2.59%) TeamCity
6 13 (2.41%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.67%) Selenium
8 8 (1.48%) GitLab
8 8 (1.48%) JUnit
8 8 (1.48%) Maven
9 7 (1.30%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.30%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (1.11%) RStudio
11 5 (0.93%) Subversion
12 4 (0.74%) AdminStudio
12 4 (0.74%) InstallShield
12 4 (0.74%) MSI
12 4 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.74%) TestNG
General
1 170 (31.48%) Finance
2 125 (23.15%) Social Skills
3 80 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.67%) Retail
5 32 (5.93%) Marketing
6 28 (5.19%) Legal
7 19 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.52%) Law
8 16 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (2.78%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.22%) Back Office
12 10 (1.85%) Banking
13 8 (1.48%) Electronics
13 8 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.74%) Local Government
15 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 93 (17.22%) Analyst
2 77 (14.26%) Applications Support
3 67 (12.41%) Senior
4 66 (12.22%) Applications Support Analyst
4 66 (12.22%) Support Analyst
5 65 (12.04%) Consultant
6 57 (10.56%) Lead
7 54 (10.00%) NetApp Consultant
8 43 (7.96%) Oracle Analyst
8 43 (7.96%) Oracle Support Analyst
8 43 (7.96%) SQL Analyst
8 43 (7.96%) SQL Support Analyst
9 38 (7.04%) Developer
10 32 (5.93%) Release Manager
11 25 (4.63%) Architect
12 24 (4.44%) Senior Developer
13 22 (4.07%) Data Engineer
14 20 (3.70%) Active Directory Specialist
14 20 (3.70%) Azure Specialist
14 20 (3.70%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
1 54 (10.00%) YAML
2 33 (6.11%) .NET
3 23 (4.26%) ARM Templates
4 20 (3.70%) React
5 16 (2.96%) Web Services
6 15 (2.78%) REST
7 14 (2.59%) GraphQL
8 13 (2.41%) JSON
8 13 (2.41%) XML
9 12 (2.22%) ASP.NET
10 11 (2.04%) CSS
10 11 (2.04%) HTML
11 9 (1.67%) PySpark
12 8 (1.48%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.48%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.48%) Azure Blueprints
12 8 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (1.48%) Node.js
12 8 (1.48%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.96%) Data Centre
2 37 (6.85%) Management Information System
3 21 (3.89%) PKI
4 18 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.78%) Client/Server
7 13 (2.41%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.85%) Replication
10 9 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.48%) Analogue Electronics
11 8 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (1.48%) IoT
11 8 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.30%) Clustering
12 7 (1.30%) FMCG
13 6 (1.11%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.93%) CMDB
14 5 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 160 (29.63%) Linux
2 117 (21.67%) Windows
3 56 (10.37%) Unix
4 54 (10.00%) Data ONTAP
5 43 (7.96%) Solaris
6 38 (7.04%) Windows Server
7 16 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (2.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.30%) Debian
8 7 (1.30%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.93%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.74%) VMS
10 4 (0.74%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.19%) AIX
11 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (29.63%) Agile
2 144 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 131 (24.26%) ITIL
4 118 (21.85%) Project Management
5 115 (21.30%) DevOps
6 107 (19.81%) Actionable Insight
7 76 (14.07%) CI/CD
8 73 (13.52%) ITSM
9 63 (11.67%) Service Management
10 61 (11.30%) Incident Management
11 60 (11.11%) Project Planning
12 59 (10.93%) Change Management
13 58 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (10.56%) Performance Tuning
15 56 (10.37%) Infrastructure Management
16 54 (10.00%) Storage Management
17 53 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
18 52 (9.63%) Analytics
19 49 (9.07%) Mentoring
19 49 (9.07%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 134 (24.81%) SQL
2 77 (14.26%) Python
3 59 (10.93%) C#
4 47 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 44 (8.15%) PL/SQL
6 31 (5.74%) T-SQL
7 29 (5.37%) JavaScript
7 29 (5.37%) VB
8 26 (4.81%) Java
9 20 (3.70%) TypeScript
9 20 (3.70%) VBScript
10 18 (3.33%) Bash
11 14 (2.59%) Bicep
12 12 (2.22%) Go
13 10 (1.85%) C
14 8 (1.48%) C++
15 7 (1.30%) PHP
16 6 (1.11%) R
17 5 (0.93%) Shell Script
18 4 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 120 (22.22%) Degree
2 114 (21.11%) Security Cleared
3 83 (15.37%) SC Cleared
4 40 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 14 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.67%) CISSP
10 8 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.30%) CCDP
11 7 (1.30%) CCIE
11 7 (1.30%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 7 (1.30%) CCNP
11 7 (1.30%) CISA
11 7 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.11%) APMP
12 6 (1.11%) ISEB
12 6 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.74%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (15.74%) SLA
2 41 (7.59%) QA
3 18 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.22%) PMO
5 11 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.48%) NCSC
7 6 (1.11%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.93%) GDPR
9 4 (0.74%) NIST
10 3 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.19%) FISMA
12 1 (0.19%) HITRUST
12 1 (0.19%) IFRS
12 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 87 (16.11%) Docker
2 71 (13.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (8.70%) Active Directory
4 43 (7.96%) Oracle RAC
5 28 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (4.26%) Firmware
7 19 (3.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (2.04%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.74%) vSphere
10 3 (0.56%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 122 (22.59%) Kubernetes
2 79 (14.63%) Ansible
3 55 (10.19%) vCenter Server
4 54 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 46 (8.52%) Terraform
6 43 (7.96%) Data Guard
6 43 (7.96%) Oracle RMAN
7 25 (4.63%) SCCM
8 22 (4.07%) SCOM
9 20 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 18 (3.33%) WSUS
11 16 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (1.85%) Progress Chef
12 10 (1.85%) Puppet
13 8 (1.48%) Kibana
13 8 (1.48%) NetBackup
14 6 (1.11%) Nessus
15 5 (0.93%) Argo
15 5 (0.93%) Rancher
16 3 (0.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 142 (26.30%) Microsoft
2 91 (16.85%) VMware
3 57 (10.56%) Oracle
4 56 (10.37%) Red Hat
5 54 (10.00%) NetApp
5 54 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 54 (10.00%) SolidFire
6 46 (8.52%) Remedy
7 44 (8.15%) Sun
8 34 (6.30%) SAP
9 16 (2.96%) FNZ
10 15 (2.78%) Databricks
11 14 (2.59%) ServiceNow
12 13 (2.41%) Infor
13 11 (2.04%) Cisco
13 11 (2.04%) Salesforce
14 8 (1.48%) Google
15 7 (1.30%) Atlassian
15 7 (1.30%) Citrix
15 7 (1.30%) McAfee