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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 489 549
Rank change year-on-year +151 +60 +190
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 202 120 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.25% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.31% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 4 35 8
10th Percentile £42,750 - £61,136
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,238 £64,945
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,465 £67,950
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% -3.66% +8.72%
75th Percentile £70,938 £71,991 £70,954
90th Percentile £110,875 £88,809 £71,582
UK median annual salary £64,000 £67,500 £67,950
% change year-on-year -5.19% -0.66% -12.32%

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 29,671 38,902 30,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.51% 79.80% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16,362 19,353 22,218
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £54,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +1.89% +0.95%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +40 158 - - 1
South West +63 32 - - 3
North of England +8 8 £47,500 -27.44% 4
West Midlands +43 3 £42,500 -35.08% 1
Midlands +42 3 £42,500 -17.45% 1
North East +9 3 £47,500 +7.29%
North West -6 3 £135,000 +106.22% 4
Yorkshire -2 2 - -
East of England - 2 - - 3
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 28 (13.86%) Apache Spark
2 13 (6.44%) Apache
3 8 (3.96%) Camunda
3 8 (3.96%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.98%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (1.98%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.49%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 78 (38.61%) AWS
2 12 (5.94%) Azure
3 10 (4.95%) GitHub
4 8 (3.96%) GCP
5 7 (3.47%) npm
5 7 (3.47%) Yarn
6 6 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.97%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.98%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.49%) Dagster
8 3 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.49%) Prefect
9 2 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.99%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (0.99%) Serverless
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) Internet
1 3 (1.49%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.50%) Firewall
2 1 (0.50%) LAN
2 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.85%) Big Data
2 28 (13.86%) NoSQL
3 14 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.93%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.94%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (5.94%) Apache Hive
4 12 (5.94%) KDB
4 12 (5.94%) Kdb+
5 11 (5.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 11 (5.45%) Hadoop
6 9 (4.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.46%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (3.96%) HBase
8 7 (3.47%) Impala
8 7 (3.47%) Oracle Database
8 7 (3.47%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.97%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.97%) InterSystems Cache
9 6 (2.97%) MySQL
10 5 (2.48%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 16 (7.92%) JUnit
2 9 (4.46%) Cypress.io
3 8 (3.96%) webpack
4 7 (3.47%) Vite
5 6 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.97%) Maven
6 5 (2.48%) Gradle
6 5 (2.48%) JIRA
7 4 (1.98%) Git
8 3 (1.49%) Mockito
8 3 (1.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) Ant
9 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.50%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.50%) Protractor
9 1 (0.50%) WebDriver
General
1 192 (95.05%) Finance
2 180 (89.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 180 (89.11%) Law
3 86 (42.57%) Marketing
4 85 (42.08%) Banking
5 17 (8.42%) Legal
6 15 (7.43%) Social Skills
7 14 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.94%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.96%) Private Banking
10 4 (1.98%) Front Office
10 4 (1.98%) Publishing
11 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.50%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (89.11%) Software Engineer
2 90 (44.55%) Java Engineer
2 90 (44.55%) Java Software Engineer
3 65 (32.18%) Lead
4 52 (25.74%) Lead Software Engineer
5 45 (22.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 45 (22.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 43 (21.29%) Python Engineer
6 43 (21.29%) Python Software Engineer
7 20 (9.90%) Lead Java Engineer
8 14 (6.93%) Developer
9 13 (6.44%) Java Developer
10 10 (4.95%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 10 (4.95%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.46%) AWS Software Engineer
11 9 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (4.46%) Senior
11 9 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (42.57%) Spring
2 61 (30.20%) Kafka
3 57 (28.22%) React
4 49 (24.26%) Spring Boot
5 30 (14.85%) AngularJS
6 29 (14.36%) REST
7 18 (8.91%) RESTful
8 17 (8.42%) PySpark
9 14 (6.93%) CSS
9 14 (6.93%) HTML
10 13 (6.44%) Web Services
11 9 (4.46%) JPA
11 9 (4.46%) Pandas
12 8 (3.96%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (3.96%) JDBC
12 8 (3.96%) OpenAPI
12 8 (3.96%) Swagger
12 8 (3.96%) WSDL
13 7 (3.47%) Jest
14 5 (2.48%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 80 (39.60%) Algorithms
2 49 (24.26%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.43%) Public Cloud
3 15 (7.43%) Reference Data
4 12 (5.94%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.96%) Derivative
5 8 (3.96%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.98%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.98%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.96%) Unix
2 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.50%) Linux
3 1 (0.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (97.52%) Agile
2 187 (92.57%) Software Engineering
3 165 (81.68%) SDLC
4 149 (73.76%) CI/CD
5 127 (62.87%) AI
5 127 (62.87%) Machine Learning
6 114 (56.44%) Community of Practice
7 91 (45.05%) Visualisation
8 75 (37.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 61 (30.20%) Decision-Making
10 49 (24.26%) Full-Stack Development
11 38 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (18.32%) Risk Management
13 35 (17.33%) Architectural Design
13 35 (17.33%) Data Engineering
13 35 (17.33%) Information Architecture
14 24 (11.88%) DevOps
15 20 (9.90%) Continuous Delivery
16 16 (7.92%) ETL
16 16 (7.92%) KYC
Programming Languages
1 138 (68.32%) Java
2 68 (33.66%) Python
2 68 (33.66%) SQL
3 26 (12.87%) JavaScript
4 25 (12.38%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.46%) C#
6 8 (3.96%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.98%) Scala
7 4 (1.98%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.49%) Bash
8 3 (1.49%) PROC SQL
8 3 (1.49%) R
9 2 (0.99%) C++
9 2 (0.99%) Swift
10 1 (0.50%) C
10 1 (0.50%) Go
10 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (3.47%) AWS Certification
2 3 (1.49%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.49%) QA
3 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (5.94%) Docker
2 8 (3.96%) HDFS
3 3 (1.49%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.50%) RACF
4 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (21.78%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.40%) Terraform
3 9 (4.46%) Grafana
4 4 (1.98%) Ansible
4 4 (1.98%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.98%) Netcool
4 4 (1.98%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (1.98%) Tivoli
5 3 (1.49%) Kibana
5 3 (1.49%) logstash
5 3 (1.49%) Oozie
Vendors
1 40 (19.80%) Oracle
2 19 (9.41%) Databricks
3 17 (8.42%) Splunk
4 16 (7.92%) Dynatrace
5 13 (6.44%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.48%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.98%) IBM
7 4 (1.98%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.49%) Informatica
8 3 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.49%) Murex
8 3 (1.49%) SAP
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco
9 1 (0.50%) F5
9 1 (0.50%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.50%) Google
9 1 (0.50%) Sybase
9 1 (0.50%) VMware