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Release Engineer Career Market Report 2026

231 active jobs. 105 companies. Median salary $115K. Data from Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, and 14 additional ATS sources. Last computed: 2026-06-01.

231
Active Job Openings
105
Companies Hiring
$115K
Median Salary (US)
76%
With Salary Data

About This Report

The Release Engineer market data on this page is updated daily from 800,000+ active job postings across 20 ATS platforms.

Greenhouse Lever Workday Ashby SmartRecruiters Workable + 14 more ATS sources

Salary: Extracted via NLP. Only USD $5K-$3M included. Skills: Named entity recognition, noise-filtered (generic soft skills excluded). Experience: Inferred from title + description. Coverage: 76% of positions include salary data.

Key Findings

Median salary: $115K in the US

Middle 50% of salaries range from $110K to $179K.

CI/CD is the most-demanded skill at 47%

Generalmotors leads hiring with 20 open positions

Biggest salary jump: Senior → Manager (+$8K, +7%)

Salary increase: +$8K · Sample: Senior → Manager

AI automation risk: medium-high (score 70/100)

Score: 70/100 · AI/LLM demand: 26% of postings

Salary by Experience Level

LevelJobsP25MedianP90
Manager8$90K$128K$207K
Senior4$110K$120K$159K

What jumps out

Senior → Manager: +$8K (7%) — the biggest single-step increase. The salary curve is back-loaded: the largest raises come at transitions where scope changes from executing tasks to owning outcomes, or from owning outcomes to shaping architecture across teams.

Salary by Country

CountryJobsMedianCurrency
United States15$115KUSD

Work Mode

ModeShare
On-Site2.6%
Remote13.9%
Hybrid0.4%

~80% of postings do not specify work mode. Figures show only positions where it is explicitly stated.

Top Skills in Demand

CI/CD
47%
DevOps
32%
Quality Assurance
29%
AI/LLM
26%
AWS
24%
Jenkins
23%
Python
22%
Azure
22%
Docker
18%
Kubernetes
17%
Go
17%
Bash
16%

Top Companies Hiring

CompanyOpeningsShare
Generalmotors208.7%
Airapps114.8%
Altentechnologyusa104.3%
Usm83.5%
Recar73.0%
Collabera73.0%
Alten Mexico73.0%
datamaticstechnologies52.2%

Top Countries by Job Volume

CountryJobs
United States101
India15
Remote8
Mexico8
Canada7
United Kingdom6
Israel3
China2

Education Requirements

LevelSharePositions
Associate Degree57.1%100
Bachelor's Degree16.6%29
Master's Degree16.0%28

Certifications

ITIL (9%)PMP (2%)Certified Scrum Master (1%)PRINCE2 (1%)

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