Tech Ops Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Tech Ops skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Tech Ops 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 484 650 674
Rank change year-on-year +166 +24 -89
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 291 111 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 96 70 114
10th Percentile £35,625 £28,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,298 £48,625
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -4.79% +8.06%
75th Percentile £67,500 £87,188 £63,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £155,000 £71,375
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year +8.91% -6.65% +8.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Tech Ops 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
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 Tech Ops 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
Scotland +79 165 £61,750 +22.28% 3
North of England +70 37 £49,000 +5.84% 9
Midlands +19 36 £60,000 +16.34% 9
South East -9 34 £50,000 +25.00% 13
West Midlands +41 32 £70,000 +133.33% 3
North West +33 24 £50,000 -12.78% 7
South West -38 12 £55,000 +27.91% 4
North East +3 10 £46,382 +0.18%
Wales +7 4 £65,000 +13.04% 2
East Midlands -16 4 £37,625 -47.01% 6
Yorkshire +80 3 £39,750 +51.43% 2
East of England +18 3 £35,000 -34.88% 10
Tech Ops
UK

Tech Ops
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 85 (29.21%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.19%) FileNet
3 17 (5.84%) Cloud Foundry
4 7 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.37%) CMS
5 4 (1.37%) Umbraco
6 3 (1.03%) IIS
6 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.72%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 94 (32.30%) AWS
2 73 (25.09%) Azure
3 33 (11.34%) GCP
4 18 (6.19%) Amazon S3
5 13 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.06%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.37%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.34%) Boomi
10 1 (0.34%) Datadog
10 1 (0.34%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.34%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.34%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.34%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.84%) Kerberos
2 15 (5.15%) Firewall
3 7 (2.41%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.06%) DNS
4 6 (2.06%) Network Security
4 6 (2.06%) VSAN
5 5 (1.72%) VPN
5 5 (1.72%) WAN
6 4 (1.37%) DHCP
7 3 (1.03%) HTTP
7 3 (1.03%) LAN
8 2 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.69%) Internet
8 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.69%) VLAN
8 2 (0.69%) VoIP
9 1 (0.34%) SAN
9 1 (0.34%) SSH
9 1 (0.34%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (24.40%) NoSQL
2 52 (17.87%) Big Data
3 20 (6.87%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (6.19%) Apache Cassandra
5 17 (5.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (5.84%) CockroachDB
6 9 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.72%) MaxDB
7 5 (1.72%) SAP HANA
8 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.37%) InfluxDB
8 4 (1.37%) Power BI
9 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.03%) GIS
9 3 (1.03%) MySQL
10 2 (0.69%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.19%) JUnit
2 7 (2.41%) Git
3 4 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.03%) JIRA
5 2 (0.69%) Maven
General
1 185 (63.57%) Finance
2 174 (59.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 163 (56.01%) Law
4 150 (51.55%) Marketing
5 56 (19.24%) Influencing Skills
6 38 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (12.71%) Social Skills
8 14 (4.81%) Banking
9 12 (4.12%) Investment Banking
10 10 (3.44%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (3.09%) Police
12 8 (2.75%) Legal
12 8 (2.75%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.06%) Games
13 6 (2.06%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.72%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.37%) Military
16 3 (1.03%) Retail
16 3 (1.03%) Social Housing
17 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 184 (63.23%) Lead
2 176 (60.48%) Senior
3 155 (53.26%) Lead Software Engineer
3 155 (53.26%) Senior Software Engineer
3 155 (53.26%) Software Engineer
4 78 (26.80%) Java Engineer
4 78 (26.80%) Java Software Engineer
4 78 (26.80%) Lead Java Engineer
4 78 (26.80%) Senior Java Engineer
4 78 (26.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 51 (17.53%) Big Data Engineer
5 51 (17.53%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 51 (17.53%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 51 (17.53%) Scala Engineer
5 51 (17.53%) Scala Software Engineer
5 51 (17.53%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 51 (17.53%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 51 (17.53%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
6 45 (15.46%) Java Scala Software Engineer
7 22 (7.56%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.71%) Kafka
1 37 (12.71%) Spring
2 35 (12.03%) GraphQL
3 34 (11.68%) PySpark
4 21 (7.22%) AngularJS
4 21 (7.22%) HTML
4 21 (7.22%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 18 (6.19%) CSS
5 18 (6.19%) Hibernate
5 18 (6.19%) J2EE
5 18 (6.19%) JMS
5 18 (6.19%) jQuery
5 18 (6.19%) JSON
5 18 (6.19%) Node.js
5 18 (6.19%) React
5 18 (6.19%) Spring Integration
6 17 (5.84%) OAuth
6 17 (5.84%) REST
7 8 (2.75%) .NET
8 5 (1.72%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.18%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.65%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.50%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.44%) Biopharmaceutical
4 10 (3.44%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.72%) CMDB
6 5 (1.72%) Cyberattack
7 4 (1.37%) PKI
7 4 (1.37%) Tandem
8 3 (1.03%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.03%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.69%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.34%) CCTV
10 1 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.34%) EPoS
10 1 (0.34%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.09%) Windows
2 24 (8.25%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.87%) Linux
4 5 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.72%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.37%) Android
6 2 (0.69%) Debian
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (68.04%) Problem-Solving
2 181 (62.20%) Agile
3 165 (56.70%) Software Engineering
4 161 (55.33%) Operational Stability
5 160 (54.98%) SDLC
6 137 (47.08%) Machine Learning
7 136 (46.74%) Artificial Intelligence
8 108 (37.11%) Decision-Making
9 58 (19.93%) Microservices
10 56 (19.24%) Performance Tuning
11 41 (14.09%) Computer Science
12 39 (13.40%) ITIL
13 38 (13.06%) ETL
14 36 (12.37%) CI/CD
15 34 (11.68%) Customer Service
15 34 (11.68%) Data Engineering
15 34 (11.68%) Mathematics
15 34 (11.68%) Quality Management
16 30 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 158 (54.30%) Java
2 91 (31.27%) SQL
3 62 (21.31%) Python
4 51 (17.53%) Scala
5 21 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.87%) C#
7 18 (6.19%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.44%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.72%) ABAP
10 4 (1.37%) C
11 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.34%) C++
12 1 (0.34%) Go
12 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (7.90%) Degree
2 12 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (3.44%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.44%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.09%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.41%) A+ Certification
5 7 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.06%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.72%) CCNA
8 4 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.37%) MCSA
8 4 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.03%) MCITP
10 2 (0.69%) CCNP
10 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.34%) CASP
11 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.68%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.53%) QA
3 7 (2.41%) SLA
4 6 (2.06%) GxP
4 6 (2.06%) PMO
4 6 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.37%) GDPR
5 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.03%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.34%) GRC
7 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
7 1 (0.34%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 29 (9.97%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.06%) vSphere
4 5 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (14.09%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.31%) Terraform
3 5 (1.72%) Grafana
4 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.37%) SCCM
5 3 (1.03%) Puppet
6 1 (0.34%) Autotask
6 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.87%) Oracle
3 17 (5.84%) Google
3 17 (5.84%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.50%) Cisco
5 14 (4.81%) VMware
6 12 (4.12%) SAP
7 6 (2.06%) Meraki
8 5 (1.72%) Dell
8 5 (1.72%) Sybase
9 4 (1.37%) Databricks
9 4 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.37%) HP
9 4 (1.37%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.03%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.03%) Sophos
11 2 (0.69%) Citrix
11 2 (0.69%) ForeScout
11 2 (0.69%) Mitel