Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 571 795 890
Rank change year-on-year +224 +95 -132
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 344 175 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 131 125 183
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £39,200
25th Percentile £42,864 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.58% +3.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £114,000 £87,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +13.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 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%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops.

Salary trend for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Top 16 Job Locations

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 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 +174 284 £50,000 +11.11% 40
England +132 172 £50,000 +3.84% 56
Scotland +74 162 £61,750 +22.28% 2
Work from Home +110 75 £50,000 -37.50% 24
London +141 53 £60,000 +11.63% 22
North of England +67 39 £48,000 +6.91% 5
Midlands +35 35 £60,000 +24.26% 6
West Midlands +53 31 £70,000 +133.33% 4
South East +20 30 £45,000 +16.13% 11
North West +30 25 £50,000 +14.94% 3
North East +6 11 £46,382 +0.18%
South West -17 11 £55,000 +27.91% 8
Wales +16 4 £65,000 +13.04% 1
East Midlands -14 4 £37,625 -47.01% 2
Yorkshire +83 3 £39,750 +51.43% 2
East of England +12 3 £35,000 -46.15% 7

Tech Ops
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 85 (24.71%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.23%) FileNet
3 17 (4.94%) Cloud Foundry
4 9 (2.62%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.16%) CMS
6 4 (1.16%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.87%) IIS
8 1 (0.29%) Apache
8 1 (0.29%) nginx
8 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.45%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 90 (26.16%) AWS
2 82 (23.84%) Azure
3 33 (9.59%) GCP
4 24 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.23%) Amazon S3
6 9 (2.62%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.74%) IaaS
7 6 (1.74%) PaaS
8 4 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.16%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.58%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.29%) Boomi
11 1 (0.29%) Datadog
11 1 (0.29%) SaaS
11 1 (0.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.94%) Firewall
1 17 (4.94%) Kerberos
2 9 (2.62%) Network Security
2 9 (2.62%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.74%) DNS
3 6 (1.74%) VSAN
4 5 (1.45%) VPN
4 5 (1.45%) WAN
4 5 (1.45%) WebEx
5 4 (1.16%) DHCP
6 3 (0.87%) LAN
6 3 (0.87%) SSH
6 3 (0.87%) Telnet
7 2 (0.58%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.58%) Internet
7 2 (0.58%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.58%) VLAN
7 2 (0.58%) VoIP
8 1 (0.29%) HTTP
8 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (20.64%) NoSQL
2 52 (15.12%) Big Data
3 19 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (5.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 17 (4.94%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (4.94%) CockroachDB
6 10 (2.91%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.45%) MaxDB
7 5 (1.45%) SAP HANA
8 4 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.16%) InfluxDB
8 4 (1.16%) MySQL
8 4 (1.16%) Power BI
9 3 (0.87%) GIS
10 2 (0.58%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.23%) JUnit
2 7 (2.03%) Git
3 6 (1.74%) JIRA
4 4 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 214 (62.21%) Finance
2 184 (53.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 164 (47.67%) Law
4 147 (42.73%) Marketing
5 74 (21.51%) Influencing Skills
6 50 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (11.63%) Social Skills
8 13 (3.78%) Banking
8 13 (3.78%) Legal
9 12 (3.49%) Investment Banking
10 11 (3.20%) Police
10 11 (3.20%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.74%) Games
13 6 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.45%) Multimedia
15 4 (1.16%) Military
16 3 (0.87%) Retail
16 3 (0.87%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 196 (56.98%) Lead
2 174 (50.58%) Senior
3 154 (44.77%) Software Engineer
4 151 (43.90%) Lead Software Engineer
4 151 (43.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 75 (21.80%) Java Engineer
5 75 (21.80%) Java Software Engineer
5 75 (21.80%) Lead Java Engineer
5 75 (21.80%) Senior Java Engineer
5 75 (21.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 51 (14.83%) Big Data Engineer
6 51 (14.83%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 51 (14.83%) Lead Big Data Engineer
6 51 (14.83%) Scala Engineer
6 51 (14.83%) Scala Software Engineer
6 51 (14.83%) Senior Big Data Engineer
6 51 (14.83%) Senior Scala Engineer
6 51 (14.83%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
7 45 (13.08%) Java Scala Software Engineer
8 30 (8.72%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.17%) GraphQL
1 35 (10.17%) HTML
1 35 (10.17%) Kafka
1 35 (10.17%) Spring
2 34 (9.88%) PySpark
3 21 (6.10%) AngularJS
3 21 (6.10%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 18 (5.23%) CSS
4 18 (5.23%) Hibernate
4 18 (5.23%) J2EE
4 18 (5.23%) JMS
4 18 (5.23%) jQuery
4 18 (5.23%) JSON
4 18 (5.23%) Node.js
4 18 (5.23%) React
4 18 (5.23%) Spring Integration
5 17 (4.94%) OAuth
5 17 (4.94%) REST
6 8 (2.33%) .NET
7 5 (1.45%) BREW
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.24%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.43%) Public Cloud
3 23 (6.69%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.81%) Management Information System
5 19 (5.52%) Cyberattack
6 9 (2.62%) Biopharmaceutical
6 9 (2.62%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.62%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.45%) CMDB
7 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.16%) PKI
8 4 (1.16%) Tandem
9 3 (0.87%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.87%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.58%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.58%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.29%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.79%) Windows
2 22 (6.40%) Windows Server
3 20 (5.81%) Linux
4 6 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.16%) Android
6 2 (0.58%) Debian
6 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.58%) Unix
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Solaris
7 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (62.21%) Problem-Solving
2 193 (56.10%) Agile
3 165 (47.97%) Software Engineering
4 159 (46.22%) SDLC
5 157 (45.64%) Operational Stability
6 136 (39.53%) Machine Learning
7 134 (38.95%) Artificial Intelligence
8 124 (36.05%) Decision-Making
9 58 (16.86%) Microservices
10 56 (16.28%) Performance Tuning
11 47 (13.66%) ITIL
12 44 (12.79%) Computer Science
13 39 (11.34%) Customer Service
14 38 (11.05%) ETL
15 36 (10.47%) CI/CD
16 34 (9.88%) Data Engineering
16 34 (9.88%) Mathematics
16 34 (9.88%) Quality Management
17 33 (9.59%) Roadmaps
18 30 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 157 (45.64%) Java
2 90 (26.16%) SQL
3 61 (17.73%) Python
4 51 (14.83%) Scala
5 21 (6.10%) C#
5 21 (6.10%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.23%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.45%) ABAP
9 4 (1.16%) C
10 2 (0.58%) C++
10 2 (0.58%) Go
11 1 (0.29%) Bash
11 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (10.76%) Degree
2 26 (7.56%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.27%) DV Cleared
4 16 (4.65%) CISSP
5 15 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.49%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.03%) A+ Certification
8 7 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.45%) CCNA
10 5 (1.45%) HNC
10 5 (1.45%) MCSA
11 4 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.16%) HND
11 4 (1.16%) MRICS
11 4 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.87%) MCITP
13 2 (0.58%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.40%) QA
3 10 (2.91%) SLA
4 7 (2.03%) PMO
5 5 (1.45%) GxP
5 5 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.16%) GDPR
7 3 (0.87%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.58%) GRC
8 2 (0.58%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (9.01%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.74%) vSphere
4 5 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.58%) Docker
6 2 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.72%) Terraform
3 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.74%) SCCM
4 5 (1.45%) Grafana
5 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) Ansible
6 1 (0.29%) Autotask
6 1 (0.29%) Cacti
6 1 (0.29%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.29%) Icinga
6 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.69%) ServiceNow
3 21 (6.10%) Cisco
4 18 (5.23%) Oracle
5 17 (4.94%) Google
6 13 (3.78%) VMware
7 11 (3.20%) SAP
8 6 (1.74%) Meraki
9 5 (1.45%) Dell
9 5 (1.45%) Sybase
10 4 (1.16%) Databricks
10 4 (1.16%) HP
11 3 (0.87%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.87%) PagerDuty
11 3 (0.87%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.87%) Sophos
12 2 (0.58%) Adobe
12 2 (0.58%) Citrix
12 2 (0.58%) Mitel