Operational Stability Jobs in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Operational Stability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Operational Stability over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 431 104 750
Rank change year-on-year -327 +646 +10
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 146 1,912 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 2.56% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 3.11% 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 15 49 5
10th Percentile - £35,920 £67,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,783 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% -18.99% +70.37%
75th Percentile £140,677 £67,968 £82,500
90th Percentile - - £83,250
UK median annual salary £64,000 £62,783 £63,750
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.52% -15.00%

All Process and 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 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Operational Stability in the UK excluding London

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Scotland -70 95 - - 7
North of England +46 26 £50,000 -20.36% 11
South West +106 21 - - 1
North West +15 17 £45,000 -28.32% 10
Yorkshire +55 8 £122,773 +95.55% 1
Midlands +79 2 - -
West Midlands +54 2 - -
East of England - 2 - - 4
North East +40 1 £47,500 -24.34%
Operational Stability
UK

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (10.27%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.79%) Apache
3 4 (2.74%) Camunda
3 4 (2.74%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.37%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.37%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.68%) CICS
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.68%) SAS
6 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.25%) AWS
2 16 (10.96%) Azure
3 11 (7.53%) GCP
4 9 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.48%) SaaS
6 5 (3.42%) BlazeMeter
7 4 (2.74%) GitHub
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.05%) npm
8 3 (2.05%) Yarn
9 2 (1.37%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.68%) Dagster
10 1 (0.68%) Datadog
10 1 (0.68%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.68%) Prefect
10 1 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (1.37%) FTP
2 2 (1.37%) Internet
2 2 (1.37%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) LAN
3 1 (0.68%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.64%) Big Data
1 17 (11.64%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.85%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (6.16%) Power BI
4 8 (5.48%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.11%) Hadoop
7 5 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.42%) Apache Hive
7 5 (3.42%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (3.42%) KDB
7 5 (3.42%) Kdb+
8 4 (2.74%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.74%) InterSystems Cache
8 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.74%) MySQL
8 4 (2.74%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.05%) Parquet
9 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (8.22%) JUnit
2 6 (4.11%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (3.42%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.05%) JIRA
4 3 (2.05%) Vite
4 3 (2.05%) webpack
5 2 (1.37%) Gradle
5 2 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.37%) Maven
5 2 (1.37%) Mockito
5 2 (1.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 110 (75.34%) Finance
2 91 (62.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 88 (60.27%) Law
4 49 (33.56%) Banking
5 40 (27.40%) Marketing
6 31 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (8.22%) Social Skills
8 9 (6.16%) Legal
9 6 (4.11%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.05%) Private Banking
11 2 (1.37%) Publishing
12 1 (0.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Front Office
12 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 94 (64.38%) Software Engineer
2 47 (32.19%) Lead
3 44 (30.14%) Java Engineer
3 44 (30.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 31 (21.23%) Lead Software Engineer
5 23 (15.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 23 (15.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 20 (13.70%) Python Engineer
6 20 (13.70%) Python Software Engineer
7 16 (10.96%) Analyst
8 11 (7.53%) Developer
9 10 (6.85%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.85%) Lead Java Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.48%) Senior
12 6 (4.11%) Asset Management Analyst
12 6 (4.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 6 (4.11%) Software Analyst
13 5 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (3.42%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (31.51%) Spring
2 38 (26.03%) Kafka
3 37 (25.34%) React
4 27 (18.49%) Spring Boot
5 17 (11.64%) AngularJS
6 14 (9.59%) REST
7 10 (6.85%) CSS
7 10 (6.85%) RESTful
8 8 (5.48%) Node.js
9 7 (4.79%) HTML
10 6 (4.11%) .NET
10 6 (4.11%) Express.js
10 6 (4.11%) PySpark
10 6 (4.11%) Web Services
11 4 (2.74%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (2.74%) JDBC
11 4 (2.74%) OpenAPI
11 4 (2.74%) Pandas
11 4 (2.74%) Swagger
11 4 (2.74%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 45 (30.82%) Algorithms
2 34 (23.29%) Cloud Native
3 20 (13.70%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.85%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (5.48%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.74%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.74%) Mainframe
8 3 (2.05%) Derivative
9 2 (1.37%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.37%) iSeries
9 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.11%) Unix
2 5 (3.42%) zOS
3 3 (2.05%) Linux
4 2 (1.37%) Windows
5 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (93.15%) Agile
2 100 (68.49%) CI/CD
2 100 (68.49%) Software Engineering
3 90 (61.64%) SDLC
4 67 (45.89%) Machine Learning
5 65 (44.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 59 (40.41%) Community of Practice
7 57 (39.04%) Visualisation
8 41 (28.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (28.08%) Roadmaps
9 37 (25.34%) DevOps
10 34 (23.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (21.92%) Data Engineering
12 30 (20.55%) Continuous Delivery
13 29 (19.86%) Decision-Making
14 27 (18.49%) Risk Management
15 25 (17.12%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (15.07%) ITIL
16 22 (15.07%) Technology Roadmap
17 21 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 74 (50.68%) Java
2 47 (32.19%) SQL
3 35 (23.97%) Python
4 22 (15.07%) JavaScript
5 21 (14.38%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.53%) C#
7 9 (6.16%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.37%) Scala
8 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) C
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.68%) PROC SQL
9 1 (0.68%) R
9 1 (0.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (3.42%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (1.37%) Azure Certification
2 2 (1.37%) CCNA
2 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (1.37%) Degree
2 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 11 (7.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (9.59%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) HDFS
3 2 (1.37%) RACF
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (22.60%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.90%) Terraform
3 8 (5.48%) Grafana
4 3 (2.05%) Ansible
5 2 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.37%) Netcool
5 2 (1.37%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 2 (1.37%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.68%) Kibana
6 1 (0.68%) logstash
6 1 (0.68%) Oozie
Vendors
1 28 (19.18%) Oracle
2 14 (9.59%) ServiceNow
3 12 (8.22%) Splunk
4 11 (7.53%) Dynatrace
5 10 (6.85%) Databricks
6 8 (5.48%) Informatica
7 5 (3.42%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.74%) Cisco
9 3 (2.05%) F5
9 3 (2.05%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.05%) IBM
10 2 (1.37%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.37%) Google
10 2 (1.37%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (1.37%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.68%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.68%) Murex
11 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.68%) SAP
11 1 (0.68%) Sybase