AIOps Job Trends in the UK excluding London

AIOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AIOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 559 626
Rank change year-on-year +42 +67 +144
Permanent jobs citing AIOps 3 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.017% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.019% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £56,000 -
25th Percentile £87,500 £61,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +42.86% -48.26%
75th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £56,250
90th Percentile - £98,000 -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +42.86% -32.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

AIOps 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34,813 31,284 39,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 77.56% 90.05% 87.42%
Number of salaries quoted 20,218 13,926 30,438
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%

AIOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AIOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AIOps job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AIOps
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AIOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AIOps

AIOps
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AIOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East +24 1 - - 5
North of England +4 1 £90,000 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £90,000 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 1
AIOps
UK

AIOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (33.33%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Intelligent Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Anywhere
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Pega
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) UiPath