Tech Ops Jobs in the Midlands

Technical Operations (TechOps)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Tech Ops skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Tech Ops over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 285 289
Rank change year-on-year +46 +4 +44
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 16 38 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.23% 0.30% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.38% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 13 34 6
10th Percentile £28,750 - £30,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £43,227 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £70,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +29.03% +23.30%
75th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £76,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 £85,625
England median annual salary £38,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -30.00% -8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,041 10,057 7,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.32% 79.28% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,954 6,494 4,282
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,750 £30,028
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £39,028
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,725
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the Midlands

Tech Ops
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Tech Ops in the Midlands

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in the Midlands

Tech Ops
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tech Ops within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
East Midlands +52 13 £38,500 +10.00% 5
West Midlands +26 3 - - 6
Tech Ops
England

Tech Ops
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
1 6 (37.50%) SAN
2 5 (31.25%) iSCSI
2 5 (31.25%) VLAN
3 1 (6.25%) Broadband
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) Skype
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SAP HANA
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 5 (31.25%) Billing
2 4 (25.00%) Retail
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Electronics
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) 3rd Line Support
1 5 (31.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) IT Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) IT Support
1 5 (31.25%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Project Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Administrator
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (18.75%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) VMWare Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Information Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Driving Licence
2 3 (18.75%) iSeries
3 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) SCADA
4 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
1 6 (37.50%) Windows Server
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (25.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (12.50%) AIX
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Service Delivery
2 5 (31.25%) ITIL
2 5 (31.25%) Migration
2 5 (31.25%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Batch Processing
4 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Korn
3 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) CCNA
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) CISA
4 1 (6.25%) CISM
4 1 (6.25%) CISMP
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) COSHH
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 14001
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
2 4 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (12.50%) Docker
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) SCCM
2 5 (31.25%) Autotask
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (12.50%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 2 (12.50%) ZABBIX
5 1 (6.25%) SCOM
5 1 (6.25%) SCOrch
5 1 (6.25%) SCSM
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Aruba
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) Datto
2 5 (31.25%) HP
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 4 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (12.50%) SAP
5 1 (6.25%) BT