Operational Resilience Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Operational Resilience
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Operational Resilience skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	396	498	564
Rank change year-on-year	+102	+66	-52
Permanent jobs citing Operational Resilience	304	40	40
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	0.34%	0.12%	0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.48%	0.13%	0.10%
Number of salaries quoted	193	32	31
10^th Percentile	£46,250	£47,850	-
25^th Percentile	£51,250	£52,188	£48,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£63,695	£49,000
Median % change year-on-year	-13.65%	+29.99%	-24.69%
75^th Percentile	£88,750	£69,250	£51,250
90^th Percentile	£99,500	£78,750	£60,000
UK median annual salary	£75,000	£77,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-3.23%	+29.17%	-7.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Operational Resilience 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.

	6 months to 22 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	62,943	29,638	38,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	71.04%	86.54%	79.76%
Number of salaries quoted	43,909	16,312	19,420
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£26,750	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£40,000	£32,000	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£46,500	£54,000
Median % change year-on-year	+18.28%	-13.89%	+1.66%
75^th Percentile	£70,000	£63,750	£68,750
90^th Percentile	£87,500	£80,000	£82,500
UK median annual salary	£60,000	£55,000	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	-8.33%	-

Operational Resilience Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Operational Resilience Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Operational Resilience Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Resilience in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Operational Resilience in the UK excluding London

Operational Resilience 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 Operational Resilience within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 October 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	+39	115	£54,521	-9.05%	1
North of England	-9	68	£65,000	-5.11%	2
South West	-	45	£77,500	-	1
Midlands	-13	38	£53,750	-0.46%
North West	-3	37	£83,500	+21.90%	2
Yorkshire	-14	22	£65,000	+23.81%
West Midlands	-34	21	£38,250	-29.17%
Scotland	+29	18	£95,000	+32.45%
East Midlands	-	16	£60,000	-
East of England	-28	13	£82,500	+22.22%
North East	-	9	£51,500	-
Wales	-	5	£51,500	-
Northern Ireland	-79	2	-	-
Operational Resilience UK

Operational Resilience Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 October 2026, job vacancies citing Operational Resilience also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region with a requirement for Operational Resilience.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	52.6%	160
2	Business Continuity	33.2%	101
2	Cybersecurity	33.2%	101
4	Decision-Making	28.0%	85
5	Stakeholder Management	27.6%	84
6	Disaster Recovery	24.3%	74
7	Incident Management	22.7%	69
8	Problem-Solving	19.4%	59
9	Cyber Resilience	18.1%	55
10	Risk Management	17.4%	53
11	Azure	16.4%	50
12	CI/CD	15.5%	47
13	Degree	14.1%	43
14	Scenario Testing	13.8%	42
15	Microsoft	13.5%	41
16	DevOps	13.2%	40
16	ISO 22301	13.2%	40
18	Python	12.5%	38
19	Infrastructure as Code	12.2%	37
19	Mentoring	12.2%	37
21	Terraform	11.8%	36
22	AI	11.5%	35
22	Business Continuity Management	11.5%	35
22	Business Impact Analysis	11.5%	35
22	Firewall	11.5%	35
22	Impact Analysis	11.5%	35
27	Agile	11.2%	34
28	Service Delivery	10.9%	33
29	Incident Response	10.2%	31
29	ISO/IEC 27001	10.2%	31

Operational Resilience Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	52.6%	160
2	Business Continuity	33.2%	101
2	Cybersecurity	33.2%	101
4	Decision-Making	28.0%	85
5	Stakeholder Management	27.6%	84
6	Disaster Recovery	24.3%	74
7	Incident Management	22.7%	69
8	Problem-Solving	19.4%	59
9	Cyber Resilience	18.1%	55
10	Risk Management	17.4%	53
11	CI/CD	15.5%	47
12	Scenario Testing	13.8%	42
13	DevOps	13.2%	40
14	Infrastructure as Code	12.2%	37
14	Mentoring	12.2%	37
16	AI	11.5%	35
16	Business Continuity Management	11.5%	35
16	Business Impact Analysis	11.5%	35
16	Impact Analysis	11.5%	35
20	Agile	11.2%	34