Operational Stability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Operational Stability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Stability over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 931 1072
Rank change year-on-year +783 +141 -194
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 1,939 21 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 0.022% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 0.023% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53 16 35
10th Percentile £35,920 £41,125 £37,050
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £63,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -15.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67,968 £75,938 £83,750
90th Percentile £141,032 £83,125 £86,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £77,500 £45,488
% change year-on-year -18.99% +70.37% -15.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Operational Stability 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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability.

Salary trend for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Stability 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
UK excluding London +647 1,914 £62,783 -18.99% 8
Scotland - 1,849 £65,000 - 4
England +144 90 £62,783 -3.41% 9
Work from Home +103 46 £62,783 -3.41% 7
North of England +78 32 £62,783 -10.31% 2
London +158 25 £114,800 +83.68% 3
South West - 20 £149,601 -
Yorkshire +91 13 £62,783 -10.31%
North West +16 11 £62,783 -10.31% 1
Midlands +1 9 £37,500 -53.13%
North East - 8 £62,783 - 1
West Midlands +13 6 £61,125 -23.59%
South East - 4 - - 2
East Midlands - 3 £37,500 -

Operational Stability
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
1 488 (25.17%) Apache Spark
2 115 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
3 114 (5.88%) Apache
4 53 (2.73%) FileNet
5 21 (1.08%) GemFire
6 19 (0.98%) Camunda
7 17 (0.88%) Cloud Foundry
8 11 (0.57%) CICS
9 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.26%) Confluence
10 5 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.10%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.052%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 1 (0.052%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 1,042 (53.74%) AWS
2 145 (7.48%) Azure
3 114 (5.88%) GCP
4 98 (5.05%) Datadog
5 68 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
6 53 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
6 53 (2.73%) Amazon S3
7 52 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 51 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 51 (2.63%) Serverless
9 50 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
9 50 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
9 50 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (2.17%) BlazeMeter
10 42 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
11 25 (1.29%) Google Play
12 8 (0.41%) Entra ID
13 7 (0.36%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (0.36%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (0.31%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.23%) Kerberos
2 17 (0.88%) DSL
3 2 (0.10%) DHCP
3 2 (0.10%) DNS
3 2 (0.10%) SMTP
4 1 (0.052%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 503 (25.94%) NoSQL
2 392 (20.22%) Big Data
3 192 (9.90%) Hadoop
4 128 (6.60%) Apache Hive
5 107 (5.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 100 (5.16%) HBase
7 92 (4.74%) Relational Database
8 90 (4.64%) MongoDB
9 85 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
10 66 (3.40%) Data Lake
11 65 (3.35%) Metadata
12 50 (2.58%) Electronic Patient Records
13 39 (2.01%) Qlik Sense
14 38 (1.96%) CockroachDB
15 28 (1.44%) DB2
16 22 (1.13%) Tableau
17 21 (1.08%) Hazelcast
18 19 (0.98%) Looker
19 17 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
20 16 (0.83%) Flink
Development Applications
1 198 (10.21%) Jenkins
2 173 (8.92%) Git
3 159 (8.20%) JUnit
4 86 (4.44%) Artifactory
5 85 (4.38%) Bitbucket Server
6 70 (3.61%) Cypress.io
7 65 (3.35%) Bitbucket
8 61 (3.15%) Selenium
9 60 (3.09%) Jasmine
9 60 (3.09%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (3.09%) Protractor
9 60 (3.09%) WebDriver
10 48 (2.48%) Maven
11 33 (1.70%) GitLab
12 29 (1.50%) Gradle
13 28 (1.44%) JMeter
14 25 (1.29%) Android Studio
15 21 (1.08%) Jaeger
16 19 (0.98%) CircleCI
16 19 (0.98%) Travis CI
General
1 1,902 (98.09%) Finance
2 1,880 (96.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,879 (96.91%) Law
4 967 (49.87%) Marketing
5 525 (27.08%) Legal
6 368 (18.98%) Banking
7 297 (15.32%) Investment Banking
8 128 (6.60%) Influencing Skills
9 111 (5.72%) Social Skills
10 79 (4.07%) Financial Institution
11 67 (3.46%) Private Banking
12 40 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
14 27 (1.39%) Games
15 22 (1.13%) Prime Brokerage
16 21 (1.08%) Public Sector
17 18 (0.93%) Front Office
18 3 (0.15%) Aviation
19 1 (0.052%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,765 (91.03%) Software Engineer
2 677 (34.91%) Lead
3 676 (34.86%) Java Engineer
3 676 (34.86%) Java Software Engineer
4 667 (34.40%) Lead Software Engineer
5 340 (17.53%) Big Data Engineer
5 340 (17.53%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 328 (16.92%) Python Engineer
6 328 (16.92%) Python Software Engineer
7 293 (15.11%) AWS Engineer
7 293 (15.11%) AWS Software Engineer
8 278 (14.34%) Full Stack Engineer
8 278 (14.34%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 260 (13.41%) Lead Java Engineer
10 244 (12.58%) Senior
11 224 (11.55%) Scala Engineer
11 224 (11.55%) Scala Software Engineer
12 197 (10.16%) Senior Software Engineer
13 194 (10.01%) Data Engineer
14 146 (7.53%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (24.50%) Spring
2 368 (18.98%) React
3 298 (15.37%) AngularJS
4 287 (14.80%) Kafka
5 202 (10.42%) JSON
6 199 (10.26%) J2EE
7 194 (10.01%) Spring Boot
8 188 (9.70%) CSS
8 188 (9.70%) HTML
9 172 (8.87%) PySpark
10 171 (8.82%) JMS
11 148 (7.63%) Hibernate
12 147 (7.58%) Node.js
13 140 (7.22%) Web Services
14 139 (7.17%) jQuery
15 132 (6.81%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 129 (6.65%) RESTful
17 109 (5.62%) XML
18 95 (4.90%) REST
19 93 (4.80%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 672 (34.66%) Algorithms
2 612 (31.56%) Cloud Native
3 266 (13.72%) Public Cloud
4 123 (6.34%) Onboarding
4 123 (6.34%) Reference Data
5 122 (6.29%) Management Information System
6 97 (5.00%) Data Structures
7 68 (3.51%) Product Ownership
8 65 (3.35%) Enterprise Cloud
9 51 (2.63%) Credit Risk
10 30 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
11 27 (1.39%) Market Risk
12 26 (1.34%) Private Cloud
13 21 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
13 21 (1.08%) Replication
14 11 (0.57%) Mainframe
14 11 (0.57%) VSAM
15 10 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 124 (6.40%) Unix
2 77 (3.97%) Linux
3 31 (1.60%) Android
4 29 (1.50%) Windows
5 6 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,866 (96.24%) Software Engineering
2 1,789 (92.26%) Agile
3 1,739 (89.69%) SDLC
4 1,586 (81.79%) CI/CD
5 1,242 (64.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,219 (62.87%) Community of Practice
7 1,213 (62.56%) Machine Learning
8 697 (35.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 689 (35.53%) Visualisation
10 564 (29.09%) Risk Management
11 450 (23.21%) Decision-Making
12 413 (21.30%) Architectural Design
13 395 (20.37%) Information Architecture
14 366 (18.88%) Microservices
15 356 (18.36%) Continuous Delivery
16 296 (15.27%) Full Stack Development
17 269 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
18 230 (11.86%) Test Automation
19 201 (10.37%) TDD
20 185 (9.54%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,289 (66.48%) Java
2 763 (39.35%) Python
3 754 (38.89%) SQL
4 270 (13.92%) Scala
5 266 (13.72%) JavaScript
6 199 (10.26%) TypeScript
7 109 (5.62%) PL/SQL
8 94 (4.85%) Go
9 65 (3.35%) Prolog
9 65 (3.35%) SPARQL
10 43 (2.22%) Kotlin
11 32 (1.65%) C#
12 22 (1.13%) Groovy
13 20 (1.03%) Ruby
14 11 (0.57%) COBOL
14 11 (0.57%) JCL
15 7 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.31%) Swift
17 3 (0.15%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (1.55%) Degree
2 27 (1.39%) AWS Certification
3 9 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (0.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.052%) CCNA
6 1 (0.052%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.052%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (3.25%) SLA
2 50 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 33 (1.70%) Data Quality
4 19 (0.98%) PMO
5 12 (0.62%) NIST
6 9 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 100 (5.16%) HDFS
2 69 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.81%) Docker
4 11 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.10%) vSphere
7 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.052%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 260 (13.41%) Terraform
2 232 (11.96%) Kubernetes
3 146 (7.53%) Grafana
4 60 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.08%) Ansible
5 21 (1.08%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.08%) Kibana
5 21 (1.08%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.36%) Graphite
7 3 (0.15%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.052%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.052%) Nagios
9 1 (0.052%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.052%) Puppet
Vendors
1 263 (13.56%) Oracle
2 237 (12.22%) Databricks
3 157 (8.10%) Splunk
4 141 (7.27%) Dynatrace
5 86 (4.44%) Informatica
6 70 (3.61%) Cloudera
7 56 (2.89%) Alteryx
8 53 (2.73%) Google
9 23 (1.19%) Microsoft
10 19 (0.98%) Atlassian
10 19 (0.98%) Pega
11 18 (0.93%) SaltStack
12 17 (0.88%) Cognos
12 17 (0.88%) Sybase
13 9 (0.46%) TOWER Software
14 6 (0.31%) Amplitude
14 6 (0.31%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.31%) Teradata
15 5 (0.26%) VMware
16 3 (0.15%) SolarWinds