Tech Ops Job Trends in England

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Tech Ops skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 609 600
Rank change year-on-year +105 -9 +174
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 98 70 69
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.19% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.16% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 60 36 42
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £32,875
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,938 £43,770
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,755 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -12.55% +4.21%
75th Percentile £71,563 £69,063 £65,938
90th Percentile £82,241 £120,000 £117,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,750
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.31% +2.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,581 44,028 42,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.75% 90.38% 90.78%
Number of salaries quoted 25,429 21,729 32,838
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Tech Ops job vacancy trend in England

Tech Ops
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Tech Ops.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in England

Tech Ops
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tech Ops within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +49 32 £63,750 +21.43% 11
South East +33 27 £38,500 -9.41% 16
North of England +32 18 £50,000 +27.39% 11
East of England - 12 £30,000 - 5
Yorkshire -3 10 £155,000 - 2
Midlands +26 9 £29,500 -41.00% 5
North West +23 7 £47,500 +21.02% 8
South West +12 6 £50,000 +33.33% 5
West Midlands +24 5 £80,000 +60.00% 2
East Midlands - 4 £29,500 - 3
North East - 1 £77,217 - 1
Tech Ops
UK

Tech Ops
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.06%) HCL Domino
2 3 (3.06%) HCL Notes
3 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.04%) CINEMA 4D
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.35%) Azure
2 14 (14.29%) AWS
2 14 (14.29%) SaaS
3 13 (13.27%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.20%) PaaS
5 8 (8.16%) GCP
6 6 (6.12%) IaaS
6 6 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.04%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (2.04%) Algolia
8 2 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.04%) Firebase
8 2 (2.04%) GitHub
8 2 (2.04%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.04%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.04%) Sentry
8 2 (2.04%) Serverless
8 2 (2.04%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.22%) Wireless
2 6 (6.12%) Firewall
3 5 (5.10%) VLAN
3 5 (5.10%) VPN
4 4 (4.08%) WAN
5 3 (3.06%) DNS
5 3 (3.06%) VoIP
6 2 (2.04%) DHCP
6 2 (2.04%) NAS
6 2 (2.04%) SAN
6 2 (2.04%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.02%) FTP
7 1 (1.02%) Intranet
7 1 (1.02%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.04%) BigQuery
1 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.04%) Power BI
2 1 (1.02%) GIS
2 1 (1.02%) Metadata
2 1 (1.02%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Git
1 2 (2.04%) Storybook
2 1 (1.02%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.02%) GitLab
2 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.02%) JIRA
General
1 28 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.41%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.12%) Advertising
5 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.06%) Billing
6 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.04%) Aviation
7 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Legal
7 2 (2.04%) Marketing
7 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.02%) Banking
8 1 (1.02%) Environmental Health
8 1 (1.02%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
8 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (13.27%) IT Manager
2 12 (12.24%) Analyst
3 11 (11.22%) Support Supervisor
3 11 (11.22%) Technical Support
3 11 (11.22%) Technical Support Supervisor
4 9 (9.18%) Support Analyst
4 9 (9.18%) Support Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (8.16%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 8 (8.16%) Operations Manager
5 8 (8.16%) Service Manager
5 8 (8.16%) Technical Manager
6 7 (7.14%) Lead
7 6 (6.12%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Cloud Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) GCP Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) EDI
2 3 (3.06%) OAuth
3 2 (2.04%) .NET
3 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.04%) CSS
3 2 (2.04%) CSS3
3 2 (2.04%) Express.js
3 2 (2.04%) HTML
3 2 (2.04%) HTML5
3 2 (2.04%) Jest
3 2 (2.04%) JWT
3 2 (2.04%) Node.js
3 2 (2.04%) RESTful
3 2 (2.04%) RxJS
3 2 (2.04%) Sass
3 2 (2.04%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.02%) OpenID
4 1 (1.02%) REST
4 1 (1.02%) SAML
4 1 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 7 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.12%) Hedge funds
2 6 (6.12%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.10%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.08%) IoT
4 4 (4.08%) iSeries
4 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.06%) Reinsurance
5 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.06%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.04%) CCTV
6 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.02%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.02%) Equities
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.22%) Windows
2 6 (6.12%) Unix
3 5 (5.10%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.06%) Linux
5 2 (2.04%) Android
5 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.04%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.02%) CentOS
6 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (21.43%) Service Delivery
4 20 (20.41%) ITIL
5 17 (17.35%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (17.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (16.33%) Service Management
7 15 (15.31%) DevOps
7 15 (15.31%) ITSM
7 15 (15.31%) Problem Management
8 13 (13.27%) Roadmaps
9 11 (11.22%) Computer Science
9 11 (11.22%) High Availability
10 10 (10.20%) Change Management
10 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (9.18%) Agile
11 9 (9.18%) Data Protection
11 9 (9.18%) Decision-Making
11 9 (9.18%) Performance Monitoring
11 9 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (11.22%) Python
2 9 (9.18%) SQL
3 7 (7.14%) Bash
4 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.04%) C#
5 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.04%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.02%) ABAP
6 1 (1.02%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) Degree
2 11 (11.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.18%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (6.12%) CCSK
4 6 (6.12%) CISSP
4 6 (6.12%) DBS Check
5 5 (5.10%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.08%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) CCIE
7 1 (1.02%) CCNP
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) HND
7 1 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.10%) QA
3 4 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.06%) ISO 9001
5 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.04%) GDPR
5 2 (2.04%) GRC
5 2 (2.04%) SLA
5 2 (2.04%) WCAG
6 1 (1.02%) COBIT
6 1 (1.02%) MiFID
6 1 (1.02%) NIST
6 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.02%) Docker
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (10.20%) Terraform
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.04%) SCCM
3 2 (2.04%) SmoothWall
4 1 (1.02%) Ansible
4 1 (1.02%) Control-M
4 1 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.02%) Kibana
4 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.20%) Google
3 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.06%) Adobe
4 3 (3.06%) IBM
4 3 (3.06%) Lotus
4 3 (3.06%) Polycom
5 2 (2.04%) SendGrid
5 2 (2.04%) VMware
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco
6 1 (1.02%) Citrix
6 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.02%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle
6 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.02%) SAP
6 1 (1.02%) Splunk