Operational Technology Jobs in the UK excluding London

Operational Technology (OT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Technology over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 553 755
Rank change year-on-year +50 +202 -109
Permanent jobs citing Operational Technology 270 208 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.35% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 0.84% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 182 79 56
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £65,000 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year -19.87% +2.77% -9.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,125 £82,813
90th Percentile £74,750 £85,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -6.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Operational Technology is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,010 24,691 30,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.86% 41.05% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,230 11,255 15,729
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Operational Technology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in the UK excluding London

Operational Technology
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operational Technology in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Operational Technology in the UK excluding London

Operational Technology
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operational Technology in the UK excluding London

Operational Technology
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Technology within the UK excluding London region 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
North of England +71 86 £52,084 -19.87% 8
North West +29 60 £52,084 -26.90% 4
Midlands +5 59 £57,500 +6.25% 31
West Midlands +18 49 £57,500 +6.25% 28
East of England +47 39 £45,000 -35.71% 7
South East -3 36 £60,000 +14.29% 16
South West -21 28 £40,000 -42.86% 9
Scotland -59 21 £51,000 -28.42% 5
Yorkshire +85 19 £51,000 +13.33% 4
East Midlands -9 8 £40,000 - 3
North East - 7 £71,250 -
Wales +4 3 £40,000 -59.60% 2
Operational Technology
UK

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.96%) CMS
3 7 (2.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (9.63%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.44%) AutoCAD
3 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.48%) EPLAN
5 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.37%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (5.56%) Azure
3 11 (4.07%) Power Platform
3 11 (4.07%) SaaS
4 7 (2.59%) IaaS
4 7 (2.59%) PaaS
5 6 (2.22%) AWS
6 2 (0.74%) GCP
7 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.04%) Firewall
2 17 (6.30%) WAN
3 12 (4.44%) Network Security
4 11 (4.07%) TCP/IP
5 10 (3.70%) MPLS
6 8 (2.96%) SD-WAN
6 8 (2.96%) VSAN
7 7 (2.59%) LAN
8 5 (1.85%) NAS
8 5 (1.85%) SAN
8 5 (1.85%) VoIP
9 4 (1.48%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (1.11%) Wireless
11 2 (0.74%) DMZ
11 2 (0.74%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.74%) Internet
11 2 (0.74%) Modbus
11 2 (0.74%) SDH
12 1 (0.37%) Broadband
12 1 (0.37%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.07%) Power BI
2 6 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.85%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.74%) Metadata
4 2 (0.74%) Tableau
5 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.37%) GIS
5 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Burp Suite
1 3 (1.11%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.37%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.37%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (17.41%) Manufacturing
2 26 (9.63%) Social Skills
3 19 (7.04%) Finance
4 17 (6.30%) Legal
4 17 (6.30%) Marketing
5 15 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 13 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.07%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.70%) Games
9 9 (3.33%) Retail
10 7 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.85%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.11%) Law
14 2 (0.74%) Advertising
14 2 (0.74%) Automotive
15 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (13.70%) Analyst
2 27 (10.00%) SCADA Engineer
3 23 (8.52%) Consultant
3 23 (8.52%) Lead
3 23 (8.52%) Security Consultant
4 20 (7.41%) Senior
4 20 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 18 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 16 (5.93%) Data Engineer
7 15 (5.56%) SCADA Software Engineer
7 15 (5.56%) Security Specialist
8 14 (5.19%) Hardware Engineer
8 14 (5.19%) Security Operations Specialist
9 13 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 13 (4.81%) Security Analyst
9 13 (4.81%) Systems Analyst
10 12 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
11 11 (4.07%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 11 (4.07%) Managing Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.22%) Middleware
1 6 (2.22%) Web Services
2 2 (0.74%) REST
3 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.37%) Node-RED
3 1 (0.37%) XML
3 1 (0.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (24.07%) SCADA
2 34 (12.59%) Management Information System
3 33 (12.22%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 14 (5.19%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (4.44%) Cyber Defence
6 10 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
7 9 (3.33%) IoT
8 8 (2.96%) Clustering
9 7 (2.59%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.59%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.59%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.22%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.85%) Smart Energy
11 5 (1.85%) Smart Meter
12 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.11%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
14 2 (0.74%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.78%) Windows
2 35 (12.96%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.81%) Linux
4 8 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.11%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (62.59%) Cybersecurity
2 74 (27.41%) Risk Management
3 51 (18.89%) Incident Response
4 39 (14.44%) Change Management
5 35 (12.96%) Information Security
6 30 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (8.89%) Mentoring
8 22 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (8.15%) Project Delivery
8 22 (8.15%) Security Architecture
8 22 (8.15%) Vulnerability Management
9 21 (7.78%) Software Engineering
10 20 (7.41%) Penetration Testing
10 20 (7.41%) Systems Engineering
11 18 (6.67%) ITIL
11 18 (6.67%) User Experience
12 17 (6.30%) Data Acquisition
13 16 (5.93%) UX Design
13 16 (5.93%) Value Proposition
14 15 (5.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.19%) Python
2 13 (4.81%) SQL
3 12 (4.44%) Bash
4 6 (2.22%) Java
4 6 (2.22%) VB
5 3 (1.11%) C#
5 3 (1.11%) C++
5 3 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.74%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 71 (26.30%) Security Cleared
2 70 (25.93%) Degree
3 46 (17.04%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.78%) CISSP
5 17 (6.30%) CISM
6 15 (5.56%) CRISC
7 12 (4.44%) CASP
7 12 (4.44%) CEH
8 8 (2.96%) A+ Certification
8 8 (2.96%) HND
9 6 (2.22%) Chartered Engineer
9 6 (2.22%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.22%) MCSE
9 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.85%) CCNA
10 5 (1.85%) CISA
10 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.85%) HNC
11 4 (1.48%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.59%) NIST
2 27 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (10.00%) NCSC
3 10 (3.70%) SLA
4 9 (3.33%) COBIT
5 7 (2.59%) QA
6 6 (2.22%) GDPR
6 6 (2.22%) GRC
6 6 (2.22%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.85%) NIST 800
8 4 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.74%) COSO
9 2 (0.74%) IEC 61131
9 2 (0.74%) ITGC
10 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.37%) PMO
10 1 (0.37%) TickIT
System Software
1 32 (11.85%) Hyper-V
2 24 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.41%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (2.96%) Failover Clustering
1 8 (2.96%) Nessus
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.11%) Nmap
4 2 (0.74%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.37%) QRadar
5 1 (0.37%) SCCM
5 1 (0.37%) SCOM
5 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.89%) VMware
3 10 (3.70%) Qualys
4 8 (2.96%) Meraki
5 6 (2.22%) Oracle
5 6 (2.22%) Siemens
6 5 (1.85%) Allen-Bradley
7 4 (1.48%) EMC
7 4 (1.48%) Rockwell
8 3 (1.11%) OneTrust
9 2 (0.74%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.74%) Forcepoint
9 2 (0.74%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.74%) LogRhythm
9 2 (0.74%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.74%) SAP
9 2 (0.74%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.74%) Varonis
10 1 (0.37%) MathWorks
10 1 (0.37%) SonicWALL