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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 135 688
Rank change year-on-year -233 +553 +100
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 234 1,469 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.96% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 2.43% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 13 62 5
10th Percentile - £42,238 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £57,597 £64,945
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,783 £67,950
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% -7.60% +49.38%
75th Percentile £140,677 £71,250 £70,954
90th Percentile - £71,991 £78,632
UK median annual salary £64,000 £62,783 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.41% -7.14%

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 37,921 60,453 48,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.79% 80.49% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 19,528 40,416 27,929
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,951 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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 16 July 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 July 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 -37 175 - - 6
South West +106 32 - - 1
North of England +32 23 £50,000 -20.36% 5
North West +14 14 £47,500 -24.34% 5
Yorkshire +30 6 £122,773 +95.55%
Midlands +67 3 £42,500 -31.73% 2
West Midlands +65 3 £42,500 -31.73% 2
North East +34 3 £47,500 -24.34%
East of England - 2 - -
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 29 (12.39%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.56%) Apache
3 8 (3.42%) Camunda
3 8 (3.42%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.71%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (1.71%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.28%) SAS
7 1 (0.43%) CICS
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 86 (36.75%) AWS
2 19 (8.12%) Azure
3 12 (5.13%) GCP
4 10 (4.27%) GitHub
5 8 (3.42%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.99%) npm
6 7 (2.99%) Yarn
7 6 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.56%) SaaS
8 5 (2.14%) BlazeMeter
8 5 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.71%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.28%) Dagster
10 3 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.28%) Prefect
11 2 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.85%) Serverless
12 1 (0.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.71%) PuTTY
2 3 (1.28%) Internet
3 2 (0.85%) FTP
3 2 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) SSL
4 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.68%) NoSQL
2 31 (13.25%) Big Data
3 14 (5.98%) Apache Cassandra
3 14 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.98%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (5.13%) Apache Hive
4 12 (5.13%) Hadoop
4 12 (5.13%) KDB
4 12 (5.13%) Kdb+
5 9 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.85%) Apache Iceberg
6 8 (3.42%) HBase
6 8 (3.42%) Power BI
7 7 (2.99%) Impala
7 7 (2.99%) Oracle Database
7 7 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.56%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.56%) InterSystems Cache
8 6 (2.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.12%) JUnit
2 9 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 8 (3.42%) webpack
4 7 (2.99%) Vite
5 6 (2.56%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.56%) Maven
6 5 (2.14%) Gradle
6 5 (2.14%) JIRA
7 4 (1.71%) Git
7 4 (1.71%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (1.28%) Mockito
8 3 (1.28%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) Ant
9 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.43%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.43%) Protractor
9 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 199 (85.04%) Finance
2 183 (78.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 180 (76.92%) Law
4 89 (38.03%) Banking
5 86 (36.75%) Marketing
6 34 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (8.55%) Social Skills
8 17 (7.26%) Legal
9 12 (5.13%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.42%) Private Banking
11 4 (1.71%) Front Office
11 4 (1.71%) Publishing
12 3 (1.28%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 184 (78.63%) Software Engineer
2 90 (38.46%) Java Engineer
2 90 (38.46%) Java Software Engineer
3 72 (30.77%) Lead
4 56 (23.93%) Lead Software Engineer
5 45 (19.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 45 (19.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 43 (18.38%) Python Engineer
6 43 (18.38%) Python Software Engineer
7 20 (8.55%) Lead Java Engineer
8 17 (7.26%) Developer
9 16 (6.84%) Java Developer
10 14 (5.98%) Analyst
11 11 (4.70%) Senior
12 10 (4.27%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 10 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (4.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (4.27%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.85%) Java Software Developer
13 9 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (38.03%) Spring
2 65 (27.78%) Kafka
3 64 (27.35%) React
4 49 (20.94%) Spring Boot
5 32 (13.68%) AngularJS
6 29 (12.39%) REST
7 18 (7.69%) RESTful
8 17 (7.26%) CSS
8 17 (7.26%) PySpark
9 14 (5.98%) HTML
10 13 (5.56%) Web Services
11 9 (3.85%) JPA
11 9 (3.85%) Node.js
11 9 (3.85%) Pandas
12 8 (3.42%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (3.42%) JDBC
12 8 (3.42%) OpenAPI
12 8 (3.42%) Swagger
12 8 (3.42%) WSDL
13 7 (2.99%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 83 (35.47%) Algorithms
2 55 (23.50%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 15 (6.41%) Public Cloud
4 15 (6.41%) Reference Data
5 9 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.42%) Derivative
6 8 (3.42%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.71%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.71%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.71%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.71%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.85%) iSeries
10 1 (0.43%) CMDB
10 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.43%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.70%) Unix
2 5 (2.14%) zOS
3 4 (1.71%) Linux
4 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.85%) Windows
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (95.30%) Agile
2 193 (82.48%) Software Engineering
3 172 (73.50%) SDLC
4 171 (73.08%) CI/CD
5 130 (55.56%) Machine Learning
6 129 (55.13%) Artificial Intelligence
7 116 (49.57%) Community of Practice
8 99 (42.31%) Visualisation
9 77 (32.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 62 (26.50%) Decision-Making
11 50 (21.37%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (17.52%) Data Engineering
13 40 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (16.67%) DevOps
14 39 (16.67%) Risk Management
15 37 (15.81%) Continuous Delivery
15 37 (15.81%) Roadmaps
16 35 (14.96%) Architectural Design
16 35 (14.96%) Information Architecture
17 32 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (60.26%) Java
2 78 (33.33%) SQL
3 70 (29.91%) Python
4 33 (14.10%) JavaScript
5 32 (13.68%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.56%) C#
7 12 (5.13%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.71%) Scala
8 4 (1.71%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.28%) Bash
9 3 (1.28%) PROC SQL
9 3 (1.28%) R
10 2 (0.85%) C++
10 2 (0.85%) Swift
11 1 (0.43%) C
11 1 (0.43%) Go
11 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (3.42%) AWS Certification
2 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.43%) CCNA
4 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.43%) Degree
4 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.41%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.28%) QA
4 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (6.84%) Docker
2 8 (3.42%) HDFS
3 3 (1.28%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.85%) RACF
5 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (21.37%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.40%) Terraform
3 12 (5.13%) Grafana
4 5 (2.14%) Ansible
5 4 (1.71%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (1.71%) Netcool
5 4 (1.71%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (1.71%) Tivoli
6 3 (1.28%) Kibana
6 3 (1.28%) logstash
6 3 (1.28%) Oozie
Vendors
1 44 (18.80%) Oracle
2 20 (8.55%) ServiceNow
2 20 (8.55%) Splunk
3 19 (8.12%) Databricks
3 19 (8.12%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.42%) Informatica
5 6 (2.56%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.14%) Cloudera
6 5 (2.14%) IBM
7 3 (1.28%) Cisco
7 3 (1.28%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (1.28%) Murex
7 3 (1.28%) SAP
8 2 (0.85%) F5
8 2 (0.85%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.85%) Google
9 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.43%) Sybase
9 1 (0.43%) VMware