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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 377 439
Rank change year-on-year -65 +62 -45
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 544 887 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.88% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.92% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 341 515 760
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,852 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,500 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.31% +2.73% -

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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
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 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 -51 446 £62,500 - 101
UK excluding London -59 414 £59,500 +5.31% 64
Work from Home -12 272 £62,500 -1.21% 63
London -34 119 £65,000 -7.14% 41
South East -34 104 £59,000 -1.67% 17
Midlands -3 90 £62,500 +25.00% 16
North of England -43 76 £55,000 -8.33% 8
West Midlands +8 67 £75,000 +50.00% 11
North West -7 62 £55,000 - 6
South West -18 45 £67,500 +3.85% 7
Scotland -40 38 £62,500 +5.93% 7
Wales +16 37 £55,000 +22.22% 2
East Midlands -5 23 £40,000 -5.88% 5
Yorkshire +11 14 £32,500 -45.83% 2
East of England -10 12 £68,500 +24.55% 7
Northern Ireland +31 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 63 (11.58%) Apache
2 45 (8.27%) WebLogic
3 43 (7.90%) Oracle Service Bus
4 20 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.65%) Confluence
5 9 (1.65%) IIS
6 8 (1.47%) CMS
6 8 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.29%) nginx
8 5 (0.92%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.74%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.55%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.37%) GlassFish
11 2 (0.37%) JCAPS
11 2 (0.37%) Liferay
11 2 (0.37%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.37%) SAS
11 2 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 66 (12.13%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (7.90%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 46 (8.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 30 (5.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (3.68%) PlanetPress Connect
4 17 (3.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 17 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (2.39%) Infor SunSystems
5 13 (2.39%) iTrent
6 3 (0.55%) PeopleSoft Financials
6 3 (0.55%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.37%) Adaptiv
7 2 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 170 (31.25%) Azure
2 57 (10.48%) Amazon S3
3 56 (10.29%) AWS
3 56 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (7.72%) SaaS
6 39 (7.17%) Power Platform
7 29 (5.33%) Entra ID
8 24 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (3.68%) PaaS
12 19 (3.49%) Power Automate
13 18 (3.31%) PowerApps
14 16 (2.94%) GitHub
15 15 (2.76%) Azure Storage
15 15 (2.76%) IaaS
16 13 (2.39%) GCP
16 13 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 86 (15.81%) Firewall
2 60 (11.03%) VPN
3 59 (10.85%) Internet
4 54 (9.93%) IPsec
4 54 (9.93%) SNMP
5 28 (5.15%) DNS
6 25 (4.60%) DHCP
7 15 (2.76%) WAN
8 14 (2.57%) LAN
9 13 (2.39%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.29%) BGP
10 7 (1.29%) EIGRP
10 7 (1.29%) HSRP
10 7 (1.29%) MPLS
10 7 (1.29%) OSPF
10 7 (1.29%) Spanning Tree
10 7 (1.29%) VoIP
10 7 (1.29%) VRRP
10 7 (1.29%) Wireless
10 7 (1.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 57 (10.48%) Elasticsearch
3 54 (9.93%) MongoDB
4 49 (9.01%) Oracle Database
5 43 (7.90%) Oracle Database 10g
5 43 (7.90%) Oracle Database 11g
5 43 (7.90%) VLDB
6 41 (7.54%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (6.43%) Power BI
8 27 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (4.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (2.94%) Data Lake
11 13 (2.39%) BusinessObjects
12 12 (2.21%) NoSQL
12 12 (2.21%) Relational Database
13 11 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.92%) Delta Lake
16 4 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (0.74%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 53 (9.74%) JIRA
2 21 (3.86%) Git
3 20 (3.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 17 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.57%) TeamCity
6 13 (2.39%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.84%) GitLab
7 10 (1.84%) Selenium
8 8 (1.47%) JUnit
8 8 (1.47%) Maven
9 7 (1.29%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.29%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (1.10%) RStudio
11 5 (0.92%) Subversion
12 4 (0.74%) AdminStudio
12 4 (0.74%) InstallShield
12 4 (0.74%) MSI
12 4 (0.74%) TestNG
13 3 (0.55%) IntelliJ
General
1 175 (32.17%) Finance
2 125 (22.98%) Social Skills
3 81 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.62%) Retail
5 34 (6.25%) Marketing
6 27 (4.96%) Legal
7 21 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (3.31%) Law
9 16 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.21%) Aerospace
12 11 (2.02%) Back Office
13 10 (1.84%) Banking
14 8 (1.47%) Electronics
14 8 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.92%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.74%) Local Government
16 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 97 (17.83%) Analyst
2 81 (14.89%) Applications Support
3 70 (12.87%) Applications Support Analyst
3 70 (12.87%) Support Analyst
4 68 (12.50%) Consultant
5 67 (12.32%) Senior
6 56 (10.29%) Lead
7 54 (9.93%) NetApp Consultant
8 43 (7.90%) Oracle Analyst
8 43 (7.90%) Oracle Support Analyst
8 43 (7.90%) SQL Analyst
8 43 (7.90%) SQL Support Analyst
9 38 (6.99%) Developer
10 32 (5.88%) Release Manager
11 25 (4.60%) Architect
12 24 (4.41%) Senior Developer
13 22 (4.04%) Data Engineer
14 21 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.68%) Active Directory Specialist
15 20 (3.68%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (9.93%) RabbitMQ
1 54 (9.93%) YAML
2 34 (6.25%) .NET
3 23 (4.23%) ARM Templates
4 20 (3.68%) React
5 16 (2.94%) Web Services
6 14 (2.57%) GraphQL
7 13 (2.39%) ASP.NET
7 13 (2.39%) REST
7 13 (2.39%) XML
8 11 (2.02%) CSS
8 11 (2.02%) HTML
8 11 (2.02%) JSON
9 9 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (1.65%) PySpark
10 8 (1.47%) .NET Framework
10 8 (1.47%) Azure Blueprints
10 8 (1.47%) Node.js
10 8 (1.47%) RESTful
11 7 (1.29%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 70 (12.87%) Data Centre
2 37 (6.80%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.68%) PKI
4 18 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.57%) Cloud Native
5 14 (2.57%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.39%) Client/Server
7 11 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 11 (2.02%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.84%) Replication
9 9 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.47%) Analogue Electronics
10 8 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (1.47%) IoT
10 8 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.29%) FMCG
11 7 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.10%) Clustering
13 5 (0.92%) CMDB
13 5 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 159 (29.23%) Linux
2 114 (20.96%) Windows
3 55 (10.11%) Unix
4 54 (9.93%) Data ONTAP
5 43 (7.90%) Solaris
6 35 (6.43%) Windows Server
7 15 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (1.29%) Debian
8 7 (1.29%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.74%) VMS
9 4 (0.74%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.74%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.18%) AIX
11 1 (0.18%) CentOS
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (28.86%) Agile
2 144 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
3 134 (24.63%) ITIL
4 122 (22.43%) DevOps
5 118 (21.69%) Project Management
6 108 (19.85%) Actionable Insight
7 78 (14.34%) CI/CD
8 77 (14.15%) ITSM
9 66 (12.13%) Service Management
10 61 (11.21%) Incident Management
11 60 (11.03%) Project Planning
12 59 (10.85%) Change Management
13 57 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 57 (10.48%) Performance Tuning
14 55 (10.11%) Infrastructure Management
15 54 (9.93%) Business Intelligence
15 54 (9.93%) Storage Management
16 52 (9.56%) Analytics
17 49 (9.01%) Mentoring
17 49 (9.01%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 132 (24.26%) SQL
2 79 (14.52%) Python
3 60 (11.03%) C#
4 47 (8.64%) PowerShell
5 44 (8.09%) PL/SQL
6 31 (5.70%) T-SQL
7 29 (5.33%) VB
8 28 (5.15%) JavaScript
9 25 (4.60%) Java
10 21 (3.86%) VBScript
11 20 (3.68%) TypeScript
12 19 (3.49%) Bash
13 14 (2.57%) Bicep
14 12 (2.21%) Go
15 10 (1.84%) C
16 8 (1.47%) C++
17 7 (1.29%) PHP
18 6 (1.10%) R
19 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
20 4 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 119 (21.88%) Degree
2 114 (20.96%) Security Cleared
3 82 (15.07%) SC Cleared
4 37 (6.80%) DV Cleared
5 19 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 14 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.65%) CISSP
10 8 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.29%) CCDP
11 7 (1.29%) CCIE
11 7 (1.29%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 7 (1.29%) CCNP
11 7 (1.29%) CISA
11 7 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.10%) APMP
12 6 (1.10%) ISEB
12 6 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 4 (0.74%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (15.63%) SLA
2 41 (7.54%) QA
3 17 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.39%) PMO
5 11 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.47%) NCSC
7 6 (1.10%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.92%) GDPR
9 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.55%) NIST
9 3 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.18%) FISMA
11 1 (0.18%) HITRUST
11 1 (0.18%) IFRS
11 1 (0.18%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 87 (15.99%) Docker
2 70 (12.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (8.46%) Active Directory
4 43 (7.90%) Oracle RAC
5 28 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (4.04%) Firmware
7 19 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (1.84%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.55%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.55%) vSphere
11 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 124 (22.79%) Kubernetes
2 81 (14.89%) Ansible
3 54 (9.93%) Prometheus
3 54 (9.93%) vCenter Server
4 48 (8.82%) Terraform
5 43 (7.90%) Data Guard
5 43 (7.90%) Oracle RMAN
6 25 (4.60%) SCCM
7 21 (3.86%) SCOM
8 20 (3.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (3.31%) WSUS
10 16 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (2.02%) Puppet
12 10 (1.84%) Progress Chef
13 9 (1.65%) Kibana
14 8 (1.47%) NetBackup
15 7 (1.29%) Rancher
16 6 (1.10%) Nessus
17 5 (0.92%) Argo
18 3 (0.55%) logstash
Vendors
1 147 (27.02%) Microsoft
2 89 (16.36%) VMware
3 56 (10.29%) Oracle
3 56 (10.29%) Red Hat
4 54 (9.93%) NetApp
4 54 (9.93%) Palo Alto
4 54 (9.93%) SolidFire
5 46 (8.46%) Remedy
6 44 (8.09%) Sun
7 34 (6.25%) SAP
8 20 (3.68%) FNZ
9 15 (2.76%) Databricks
10 14 (2.57%) ServiceNow
11 13 (2.39%) Infor
12 11 (2.02%) Cisco
12 11 (2.02%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.47%) Google
14 7 (1.29%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.29%) Citrix
14 7 (1.29%) McAfee