Operational Stability Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 533 443 93
Rank change year-on-year -90 -350 +648
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 32 53 1,875
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.21% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.22% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 27 14 48
10th Percentile £47,673 - £35,920
25th Percentile £48,289 £42,500 £52,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -20.36% -17.66%
75th Percentile £77,500 £140,677 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,000 - £70,423
UK median annual salary £76,000 £75,750 £62,783
% change year-on-year +0.33% +20.65% +30.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Operational Stability 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 43,800 23,580 55,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 73.24% 91.29% 84.50%
Number of salaries quoted 26,768 13,715 40,184
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,822 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Operational Stability
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Operational Stability in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
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 Stability within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 April 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
North of England -89 9 £52,130 +4.26% 9
Midlands - 9 £72,500 - 5
South East - 7 £75,000 - 7
West Midlands - 5 £59,720 - 4
Scotland -35 4 £51,750 -
Yorkshire -62 4 £52,130 -57.54% 2
East Midlands - 4 £75,000 - 1
North West -47 3 £52,130 +15.84% 6
North East - 2 £52,130 - 1
Wales - 2 - - 1
East of England - 1 £67,500 - 4
Operational Stability
UK

Operational Stability
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 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) Azure
2 12 (37.50%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) GCP
4 4 (12.50%) GitHub
4 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.25%) Datadog
6 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.25%) Google Sheets
6 2 (6.25%) SaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (3.13%) IaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (3.13%) DHCP
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) Internet
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) VPN
2 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (25.00%) MySQL
1 8 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 8 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Looker
2 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 10 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Law
5 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Java Engineer
1 8 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 8 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Head of Operations
4 3 (9.38%) Head of Service Operations
4 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Head of Digital
5 2 (6.25%) Incident Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Integration Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Product Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Service Manager
5 2 (6.25%) SIAM Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.13%) Applications Support Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Systems Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) RESTful
2 3 (9.38%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
1 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) CentOS
2 1 (3.13%) Debian
2 1 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Agile
2 11 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (31.25%) Microservices
4 8 (25.00%) BDD
4 8 (25.00%) Coaching
4 8 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 8 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 8 (25.00%) Open Source
4 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (25.00%) TDD
4 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (21.88%) ITIL
6 6 (18.75%) Service Delivery
7 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) Service Management
8 4 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (12.50%) Customer Experience
8 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Java
1 8 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (3.13%) Bash
2 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GRC
1 2 (6.25%) SEPA
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Grafana
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) Opsgenie
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (6.25%) GoldenSource
3 2 (6.25%) PagerDuty
3 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (3.13%) Autodesk
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.13%) Meraki
4 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) Zscaler