Operational Technology Job Trends in the East Midlands

Operational Technology (OT)
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in permanent job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 131 118
Rank change year-on-year +20 -13 +35
Permanent jobs citing Operational Technology 22 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.88% 0.089% 0.058%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.85% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £61,125 - -
25th Percentile £62,813 £65,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £66,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -14.84% +40.91%
75th Percentile £70,313 £66,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £72,375 - -
England median annual salary £59,500 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% +7.67% -4.00%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 772 702 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.76% 31.14% 32.67%
Number of salaries quoted 443 305 400
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,050 £25,750
25th Percentile £28,621 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £53,375 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Operational Technology job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Operational Technology
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Operational Technology.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Operational Technology

Operational Technology
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Technology within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Lincolnshire - 8 £66,250 -
Derbyshire -8 7 - -
Leicestershire - 4 - - 1
Northamptonshire - 3 - -
Operational Technology
England

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (4.55%) AutoCAD
1 1 (4.55%) EPLAN
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) NAS
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
1 1 (4.55%) SAN
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
General
1 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Lead
2 2 (9.09%) Security Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Control Systems Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) IT Architect
3 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
3 1 (4.55%) IT Support
3 1 (4.55%) Network Manager
3 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 15 (68.18%) Cyber Threat
1 15 (68.18%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (68.18%) Business Strategy
2 15 (68.18%) Change Advisory Board
2 15 (68.18%) Coaching
2 15 (68.18%) Cyber Intelligence
2 15 (68.18%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 15 (68.18%) ITIL
2 15 (68.18%) Mentoring
2 15 (68.18%) Risk Management
2 15 (68.18%) Roadmaps
2 15 (68.18%) SABSA
2 15 (68.18%) Security Operations
2 15 (68.18%) Technology Roadmap
2 15 (68.18%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 15 (68.18%) Threat Intelligence
2 15 (68.18%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 2 (9.09%) Network Architecture
4 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (68.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (68.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 15 (68.18%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) IEC 61131
2 1 (4.55%) IEC 61508
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Allen-Bradley
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco
1 1 (4.55%) Rockwell
1 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
1 1 (4.55%) VMware