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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 941 1088
Rank change year-on-year +794 +147 -228
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 1,941 29 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.98% 0.028% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 0.029% 0.098%
Number of salaries quoted 50 14 32
10th Percentile £35,920 £40,125 £36,825
25th Percentile £41,587 £41,063 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £48,250 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.12% -29.82% +6.59%
75th Percentile £67,968 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £155,665 £81,375 £84,875
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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +654 1,926 £62,783 -18.99% 8
Scotland - 1,864 £65,000 - 3
England +169 77 £62,783 -5.23% 15
Work from Home +124 45 £62,783 +17.90% 6
North of England +81 32 £62,783 -10.31% 2
South West - 20 £149,601 -
London +139 15 £149,601 +252.00% 10
Yorkshire +105 13 £62,783 -10.31%
North West +22 11 £62,783 -10.31% 1
North East - 8 £62,783 - 1
Midlands +12 7 £60,000 -25.00% 1
West Midlands +29 6 £61,125 -23.59%
South East +28 3 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £37,500 - 1

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
1 498 (25.66%) Apache Spark
2 117 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (5.98%) Apache
4 52 (2.68%) FileNet
5 21 (1.08%) GemFire
6 20 (1.03%) 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 1,051 (54.15%) AWS
2 144 (7.42%) Azure
3 109 (5.62%) GCP
4 98 (5.05%) Datadog
5 70 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
6 54 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
7 53 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 52 (2.68%) Amazon S3
8 52 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (2.68%) Serverless
9 51 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
9 51 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
11 41 (2.11%) BlazeMeter
12 24 (1.24%) Google Play
13 8 (0.41%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.36%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (0.36%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (0.31%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.22%) Kerberos
2 18 (0.93%) DSL
3 2 (0.10%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 510 (26.28%) NoSQL
2 403 (20.76%) Big Data
3 196 (10.10%) Hadoop
4 131 (6.75%) Apache Hive
5 106 (5.46%) Apache Cassandra
6 102 (5.26%) HBase
7 96 (4.95%) Relational Database
8 92 (4.74%) MongoDB
9 84 (4.33%) Elasticsearch
10 65 (3.35%) Data Lake
10 65 (3.35%) Metadata
11 51 (2.63%) Electronic Patient Records
12 38 (1.96%) CockroachDB
13 37 (1.91%) Qlik Sense
14 29 (1.49%) DB2
15 21 (1.08%) Hazelcast
15 21 (1.08%) Tableau
16 20 (1.03%) Looker
17 17 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (0.82%) Impala
Development Applications
1 201 (10.36%) Jenkins
2 174 (8.96%) Git
3 158 (8.14%) JUnit
4 86 (4.43%) Artifactory
4 86 (4.43%) Bitbucket Server
5 70 (3.61%) Cypress.io
6 65 (3.35%) Bitbucket
7 61 (3.14%) Selenium
8 60 (3.09%) Jasmine
8 60 (3.09%) Karma Test Runner
8 60 (3.09%) Protractor
8 60 (3.09%) WebDriver
9 47 (2.42%) Maven
10 33 (1.70%) GitLab
11 30 (1.55%) Gradle
12 27 (1.39%) JMeter
13 24 (1.24%) Android Studio
14 21 (1.08%) Jaeger
15 20 (1.03%) CircleCI
15 20 (1.03%) Travis CI
General
1 1,908 (98.30%) Finance
2 1,887 (97.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,886 (97.17%) Law
4 977 (50.33%) Marketing
5 522 (26.89%) Legal
6 372 (19.17%) Banking
7 299 (15.40%) Investment Banking
8 130 (6.70%) Influencing Skills
9 110 (5.67%) Social Skills
10 81 (4.17%) Financial Institution
11 69 (3.55%) Private Banking
12 40 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
14 26 (1.34%) Games
15 22 (1.13%) Prime Brokerage
16 21 (1.08%) Public Sector
17 18 (0.93%) Front Office
18 3 (0.15%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,771 (91.24%) Software Engineer
2 679 (34.98%) Java Engineer
2 679 (34.98%) Java Software Engineer
3 677 (34.88%) Lead
4 667 (34.36%) Lead Software Engineer
5 347 (17.88%) Big Data Engineer
5 347 (17.88%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 326 (16.80%) Python Engineer
6 326 (16.80%) Python Software Engineer
7 297 (15.30%) AWS Engineer
7 297 (15.30%) AWS Software Engineer
8 281 (14.48%) Full Stack Engineer
8 281 (14.48%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 261 (13.45%) Lead Java Engineer
10 243 (12.52%) Senior
11 228 (11.75%) Scala Engineer
11 228 (11.75%) Scala Software Engineer
12 196 (10.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 194 (9.99%) Data Engineer
14 148 (7.62%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (24.68%) Spring
2 372 (19.17%) React
3 302 (15.56%) AngularJS
4 287 (14.79%) Kafka
5 201 (10.36%) JSON
6 200 (10.30%) J2EE
7 198 (10.20%) Spring Boot
8 189 (9.74%) CSS
8 189 (9.74%) HTML
9 172 (8.86%) PySpark
10 170 (8.76%) JMS
11 148 (7.62%) Hibernate
12 146 (7.52%) Node.js
13 141 (7.26%) Web Services
14 138 (7.11%) jQuery
15 131 (6.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 130 (6.70%) RESTful
17 109 (5.62%) XML
18 97 (5.00%) REST
19 93 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 672 (34.62%) Algorithms
2 608 (31.32%) Cloud Native
3 274 (14.12%) Public Cloud
4 124 (6.39%) Management Information System
5 123 (6.34%) Reference Data
6 122 (6.29%) Onboarding
7 98 (5.05%) Data Structures
8 70 (3.61%) Product Ownership
9 65 (3.35%) Enterprise Cloud
10 48 (2.47%) Credit Risk
11 29 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
12 27 (1.39%) Private Cloud
13 26 (1.34%) Market Risk
14 21 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
14 21 (1.08%) Replication
15 11 (0.57%) Mainframe
15 11 (0.57%) VSAM
16 10 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 125 (6.44%) Unix
2 74 (3.81%) Linux
3 30 (1.55%) Android
4 24 (1.24%) Windows
5 6 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,873 (96.50%) Software Engineering
2 1,797 (92.58%) Agile
3 1,749 (90.11%) SDLC
4 1,593 (82.07%) CI/CD
5 1,239 (63.83%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,219 (62.80%) Community of Practice
7 1,211 (62.39%) Machine Learning
8 691 (35.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 688 (35.45%) Visualisation
10 561 (28.90%) Risk Management
11 455 (23.44%) Decision-Making
12 414 (21.33%) Architectural Design
13 396 (20.40%) Information Architecture
14 367 (18.91%) Microservices
15 363 (18.70%) Continuous Delivery
16 299 (15.40%) Full Stack Development
17 267 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
18 233 (12.00%) Test Automation
19 201 (10.36%) TDD
20 188 (9.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,298 (66.87%) Java
2 765 (39.41%) SQL
3 763 (39.31%) Python
4 276 (14.22%) Scala
5 266 (13.70%) JavaScript
6 199 (10.25%) TypeScript
7 109 (5.62%) PL/SQL
8 89 (4.59%) Go
9 65 (3.35%) Prolog
9 65 (3.35%) SPARQL
10 36 (1.85%) Kotlin
11 33 (1.70%) 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 1 (0.052%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (1.55%) Degree
2 22 (1.13%) AWS Certification
3 8 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.052%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.35%) SLA
2 52 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 20 (1.03%) PMO
5 12 (0.62%) NIST
6 9 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 102 (5.26%) HDFS
2 67 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.85%) Docker
4 11 (0.57%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.052%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 257 (13.24%) Terraform
2 228 (11.75%) Kubernetes
3 146 (7.52%) 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 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 264 (13.60%) Oracle
2 242 (12.47%) Databricks
3 155 (7.99%) Splunk
4 140 (7.21%) Dynatrace
5 87 (4.48%) Informatica
6 72 (3.71%) Cloudera
7 55 (2.83%) Alteryx
8 46 (2.37%) Google
9 20 (1.03%) Atlassian
9 20 (1.03%) Pega
10 18 (0.93%) Cognos
10 18 (0.93%) SaltStack
10 18 (0.93%) Sybase
11 16 (0.82%) Microsoft
12 9 (0.46%) TOWER Software
13 6 (0.31%) Amplitude
13 6 (0.31%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.31%) Teradata
14 2 (0.10%) Sun
14 2 (0.10%) VMware