Operational Technology Job Trends in Derbyshire

Operational Technology (OT)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in permanent job vacancies in Derbyshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 38 38
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +34
Permanent jobs citing Operational Technology 6 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 1.19% 0.75% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.44% 2.06% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £66,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.84% +26.53%
75th Percentile - £66,500 £81,250
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £66,250 £66,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +0.38% -14.84% +26.53%

All Generic Skills
Derbyshire

Operational Technology falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 246 97 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 48.91% 36.60% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 82 53 63
10th Percentile £24,750 £23,950 £22,000
25th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% -10.53% -15.56%
75th Percentile £33,625 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £57,375 £66,200 £68,000
East Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £55,000 £49,990
% change year-on-year -31.82% +10.02% -9.11%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Operational Technology relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

Operational Technology job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Operational Technology
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Operational Technology.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Operational Technology

Operational Technology
Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Technology within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Derby - 6 - - 1
Operational Technology
East Midlands

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) AutoCAD
1 1 (16.67%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Electronics
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) Change Advisory Board
1 4 (66.67%) Coaching
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) SABSA
1 4 (66.67%) Security Operations
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
1 4 (66.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 4 (66.67%) Threat Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 4 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) IEC 61131
2 1 (16.67%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Allen-Bradley
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Rockwell
1 1 (16.67%) VMware