Operational Technology Job Trends in the East of England

Operational Technology (OT)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 165 127
Rank change year-on-year +9 -38 +130
Permanent jobs citing Operational Technology 10 8 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.30% 0.19% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% 0.59% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 12
10th Percentile - £60,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,188 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.50% +27.27%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,188 £75,000
90th Percentile - £76,175 £77,250
England median annual salary £57,200 £61,500 £64,500
% change year-on-year -6.99% -4.65% +3.20%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,270 1,364 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 38.10% 32.53% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 574 594 591
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Operational Technology job vacancy trend in the East of England

Operational Technology
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Operational Technology

Operational Technology
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 October 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +24 9 - -
Suffolk -25 1 £65,000 -
Operational Technology
England

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (10.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) 802.11
1 1 (10.00%) BGP
1 1 (10.00%) CDMA
1 1 (10.00%) GPRS
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) ISDN
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) OSPF
1 1 (10.00%) PPP
1 1 (10.00%) SDH
1 1 (10.00%) SS7
1 1 (10.00%) TACACS
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VoIP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) VRRP
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 9 (90.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 8 (80.00%) Legal
2 8 (80.00%) Organisational Skills
2 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) SCADA
2 8 (80.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (80.00%) Project Delivery
2 8 (80.00%) Project Management
2 8 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (10.00%) DataOps
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Enablement
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) Network Design
3 1 (10.00%) PLM
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bicep
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Scala
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Avaya
1 1 (10.00%) DataCore
1 1 (10.00%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (10.00%) F5