Tech Ops Jobs in the South East

Technical Operations (TechOps)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 360 355
Rank change year-on-year +62 -5 +94
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 14 36 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.15% 0.21% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.25% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 17 35
10th Percentile - £31,250 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £63,750 £155,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £70,000 -
England median annual salary £46,250 £53,903 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.20% +2.67% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,818 14,215 13,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.86% 84.35% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,870 7,861
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the South East

Tech Ops
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Tech Ops in the South East

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in the South East

Tech Ops
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tech Ops within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Surrey +50 6 £86,250 +165.38% 3
Hampshire +68 5 £42,500 -32.00% 2
Thames Valley +40 3 £45,000 -35.71% 12
Berkshire +34 2 £45,000 - 5
Oxfordshire +30 1 £72,500 -
Tech Ops
England

Tech Ops
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
1 3 (21.43%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) IPsec
2 2 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (7.14%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) iSCSI
3 1 (7.14%) LAN
3 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) VSAN
3 1 (7.14%) WAN
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Service Desk Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Service Manager
3 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Cybersecurity
3 2 (14.29%) Head of IT
3 2 (14.29%) Head of IT Operations
3 2 (14.29%) Head of IT Security
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Operations
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Security
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Technical Operations
3 2 (14.29%) Head of Technology
3 2 (14.29%) IT Director
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Director
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Director
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Operations Director
3 2 (14.29%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Presales
3 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Experience
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) ITSM
4 3 (21.43%) Major Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Value Proposition
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (14.29%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco
1 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Broadcom
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft