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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 507 297
Rank change year-on-year -3 -210 +448
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 6 63 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.16% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.19% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 32 7
10th Percentile - £42,238 £59,867
25th Percentile £57,299 £54,763 £64,945
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,720 £65,465 £67,950
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% -3.66% -6.28%
75th Percentile £99,821 £71,991 £70,954
90th Percentile £122,428 £95,327 £71,792
UK median annual salary £76,000 £70,000 £67,950
% change year-on-year +8.57% +3.02% +0.67%

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 33,768 33,949 26,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.05% 87.16% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 19,235 16,050 19,763
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,696 £41,220 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,924 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.05% +4.76% -2.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.93%

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 16 December 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 16 December 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
Midlands +25 2 £59,720 -8.77% 5
West Midlands +23 2 £59,720 -8.77% 4
South West +15 2 - - 2
North West +15 1 £135,000 +106.22% 4
North of England -5 1 £135,000 +106.22% 7
South East - 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Junior
1 2 (33.33%) Junior Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Junior Java Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Operations
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Services Director
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Director
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) ERP
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft