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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 159 138
Rank change year-on-year -4 -21 +140
Permanent jobs citing Operational Technology 11 10 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.33% 0.23% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 0.78% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 15
10th Percentile £52,825 £45,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £54,438 £50,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £64,438 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,275 £74,500 £76,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +0.78%

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 1,268 1,281 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 37.47% 29.09% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 535 712 626
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,025 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Operational Technology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology 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
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Operational Technology in the East of England

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 15 September 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 - 9 - -
Hertfordshire +13 1 £53,500 -28.67%
Suffolk -30 1 £65,000 - 2
Operational Technology
England

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) AutoCAD
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) 802.11
1 1 (9.09%) BGP
1 1 (9.09%) CDMA
1 1 (9.09%) GPRS
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
1 1 (9.09%) IPsec
1 1 (9.09%) ISDN
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) MPLS
1 1 (9.09%) OSPF
1 1 (9.09%) PPP
1 1 (9.09%) SDH
1 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
1 1 (9.09%) SS7
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) VoIP
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (9.09%) Wireless
General
1 9 (81.82%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (72.73%) Legal
2 8 (72.73%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Project Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) SCADA
2 8 (72.73%) Driving Licence
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (9.09%) IoT
3 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (81.82%) Project Delivery
2 8 (72.73%) Project Management
2 8 (72.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Community of Practice
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) DataOps
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Enablement
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Presales
4 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bicep
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) Scala
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Avaya
1 1 (9.09%) DataCore
1 1 (9.09%) Extreme Networks
1 1 (9.09%) F5