Tech Ops Job Trends in Dorset

Technical Operations (TechOps)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Tech Ops skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.14% - 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £51,250
75th Percentile £63,750 - £60,000
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £29,500 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

Tech Ops falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 534 308 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 75.74% 84.15% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 301 165 587
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,000 £65,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,396
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.57% -3.37%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Tech Ops relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Tech Ops job vacancy trend in Dorset

Tech Ops
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Tech Ops.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tech Ops within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Bournemouth - 1 £62,500 -
Tech Ops
South West

Tech Ops
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash