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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 345 171
Rank change year-on-year -207 -174 +412
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 88 210 815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.61% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.71% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 59 4 42
10th Percentile £45,500 £42,750 £42,238
25th Percentile £51,875 £45,000 £46,413
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -27.44% -3.66%
75th Percentile £81,250 £49,063 £71,991
90th Percentile £90,500 £49,625 £75,394
UK median annual salary £69,305 £64,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +8.29% -2.24% -3.66%

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 57,358 29,781 44,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.17% 86.40% 77.95%
Number of salaries quoted 40,721 16,208 25,443
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.59%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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
Midlands -14 21 £63,750 +50.00% 6
North of England -53 21 £75,000 +57.89% 12
Scotland -91 15 £55,000 - 98
East Midlands - 14 £67,500 - 3
South West -95 11 £77,500 - 46
North West -15 10 £82,500 +65.00% 9
South East - 9 £65,000 - 8
North East -61 8 £75,000 +57.89% 1
West Midlands -28 7 £53,750 +26.47% 3
East of England -25 6 £61,250 - 6
Wales - 5 £52,500 -
Yorkshire -46 3 £43,000 - 2
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 (2.27%) Confluence
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.14%) Apache
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.14%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.36%) Azure
2 25 (28.41%) AWS
3 11 (12.50%) GCP
4 8 (9.09%) GitHub
5 6 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.82%) Serverless
6 5 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.68%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.41%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.41%) Azure Databricks
8 3 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.41%) SaaS
9 2 (2.27%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.27%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.09%) Firewall
1 8 (9.09%) LAN
1 8 (9.09%) WAN
2 3 (3.41%) Internet
2 3 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.27%) Wireless
4 1 (1.14%) Network Security
4 1 (1.14%) SAN
4 1 (1.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) DynamoDB
1 6 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.68%) Data Lake
2 5 (5.68%) Power BI
2 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.41%) Delta Lake
4 3 (3.41%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.41%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.27%) Tableau
6 1 (1.14%) Big Data
6 1 (1.14%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) GitLab
3 1 (1.14%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.14%) Flyway
3 1 (1.14%) Liquibase
General
1 35 (39.77%) Finance
2 21 (23.86%) Social Skills
3 19 (21.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (14.77%) Law
4 13 (14.77%) Marketing
5 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (11.36%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.41%) Banking
9 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.41%) Retail
9 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.27%) Digital Economy
11 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.14%) Games
11 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.14%) Publishing
11 1 (1.14%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 25 (28.41%) Lead
2 15 (17.05%) Senior
2 15 (17.05%) Software Engineer
3 12 (13.64%) IT Manager
4 9 (10.23%) Developer
5 8 (9.09%) Architect
5 8 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.95%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) IT Support
7 6 (6.82%) Lead Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Service Manager
7 6 (6.82%) Support Manager
8 5 (5.68%) IT Support Manager
8 5 (5.68%) Site Manager
9 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (4.55%) IT Services Manager
9 4 (4.55%) Lead Enterprise Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.05%) Terraform
2 8 (9.09%) React
3 7 (7.95%) .NET
4 6 (6.82%) PySpark
4 6 (6.82%) RESTful
4 6 (6.82%) Swagger
5 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.41%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (3.41%) CrewAI
5 3 (3.41%) LangChain
5 3 (3.41%) LangGraph
5 3 (3.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (3.41%) Ray
5 3 (3.41%) vLLM
6 2 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.14%) Kafka
7 1 (1.14%) Memcached
7 1 (1.14%) Middleware
7 1 (1.14%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.95%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.95%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.55%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.55%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.27%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.27%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) CMDB
7 1 (1.14%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.14%) Replication
7 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.14%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.36%) Linux
2 8 (9.09%) Windows
3 6 (6.82%) Unix
3 6 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.14%) CentOS
5 1 (1.14%) Debian
5 1 (1.14%) Solaris
5 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 32 (36.36%) Agile
3 21 (23.86%) CI/CD
4 19 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (18.18%) AI
5 16 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (17.05%) Roadmaps
6 15 (17.05%) Service Delivery
6 15 (17.05%) Software Engineering
7 14 (15.91%) ITIL
8 13 (14.77%) Continuous Delivery
8 13 (14.77%) DevOps
9 12 (13.64%) Incident Management
9 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 11 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (12.50%) Service Management
10 11 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.45%) Python
2 10 (11.36%) SQL
3 8 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.95%) C#
5 6 (6.82%) Java
6 5 (5.68%) Go
7 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.41%) Bash
9 2 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (11.36%) Degree
2 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) CCNA
4 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.41%) CISSP
4 3 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (3.41%) MCSE
4 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.27%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.27%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) SLA
2 4 (4.55%) QA
3 3 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.95%) Docker
3 4 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.27%) Firmware
5 2 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (17.05%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.68%) Grafana
2 5 (5.68%) Puppet
3 4 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.41%) SCCM
5 1 (1.14%) Ansible
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) Databricks
3 5 (5.68%) JD Edwards
3 5 (5.68%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.41%) Google
4 3 (3.41%) NVIDIA
4 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.41%) Veeam
4 3 (3.41%) VMware
5 2 (2.27%) Splunk
6 1 (1.14%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.14%) BroadSoft
6 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.14%) Epicor
6 1 (1.14%) NetApp
6 1 (1.14%) New Relic
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle
6 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds