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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 538 540
Rank change year-on-year +167 +2 +233
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 151 62 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.13% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.16% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 3 32 8
10th Percentile £42,250 £42,238 £61,136
25th Percentile £43,750 £54,763 £64,945
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,465 £67,950
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% -3.66% -9.40%
75th Percentile £93,125 £71,991 £70,954
90th Percentile £119,750 £95,327 £71,582
UK median annual salary £67,000 £70,000 £67,950
% change year-on-year -4.29% +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 30,561 39,252 28,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.72% 81.41% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18,580 19,304 21,029
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,837
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,150 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.14% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £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% - -

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +88 122 - - 2
South West +47 22 - - 4
North of England +20 5 £47,500 -27.44% 6
Midlands +65 2 £42,500 -35.08% 1
West Midlands +55 2 £42,500 -35.08% 1
North West +40 2 £135,000 +106.22% 4
North East +14 2 £45,000 +1.64% 1
Yorkshire -1 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 - - 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 21 (13.91%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.96%) Apache
3 6 (3.97%) Camunda
3 6 (3.97%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.99%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (1.99%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.32%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 57 (37.75%) AWS
2 8 (5.30%) Azure
2 8 (5.30%) GitHub
3 6 (3.97%) npm
3 6 (3.97%) Yarn
4 5 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (3.31%) GCP
5 4 (2.65%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.99%) Dagster
6 3 (1.99%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.99%) Prefect
6 3 (1.99%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.32%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.32%) Serverless
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) Internet
1 2 (1.32%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.57%) Big Data
2 21 (13.91%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.62%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.96%) Apache Hive
4 9 (5.96%) Hadoop
4 9 (5.96%) KDB
4 9 (5.96%) Kdb+
4 9 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.30%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (4.64%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.97%) Apache Iceberg
7 6 (3.97%) HBase
8 5 (3.31%) Impala
8 5 (3.31%) InterSystems Cache
8 5 (3.31%) Oracle Database
8 5 (3.31%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.99%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (7.28%) JUnit
2 7 (4.64%) Cypress.io
2 7 (4.64%) webpack
3 6 (3.97%) Vite
4 5 (3.31%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.31%) Maven
5 4 (2.65%) Gradle
6 3 (1.99%) Git
6 3 (1.99%) JIRA
7 2 (1.32%) Mockito
7 2 (1.32%) Selenium
8 1 (0.66%) Ant
8 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.66%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.66%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.66%) Protractor
8 1 (0.66%) WebDriver
General
1 144 (95.36%) Finance
2 138 (91.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 138 (91.39%) Law
3 69 (45.70%) Marketing
4 63 (41.72%) Banking
5 12 (7.95%) Legal
6 11 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.28%) Social Skills
7 9 (5.96%) Investment Banking
8 7 (4.64%) Private Banking
9 3 (1.99%) Front Office
9 3 (1.99%) Publishing
10 2 (1.32%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.66%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 138 (91.39%) Software Engineer
2 70 (46.36%) Java Engineer
2 70 (46.36%) Java Software Engineer
3 47 (31.13%) Lead
4 41 (27.15%) Lead Software Engineer
5 34 (22.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 34 (22.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 32 (21.19%) Python Engineer
6 32 (21.19%) Python Software Engineer
7 16 (10.60%) Lead Java Engineer
8 10 (6.62%) Developer
8 10 (6.62%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Java Software Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Senior
9 7 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Software Developer
10 6 (3.97%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (43.05%) Spring
2 45 (29.80%) Kafka
3 44 (29.14%) React
4 36 (23.84%) Spring Boot
5 24 (15.89%) REST
6 22 (14.57%) AngularJS
7 13 (8.61%) PySpark
7 13 (8.61%) RESTful
8 11 (7.28%) CSS
8 11 (7.28%) HTML
9 10 (6.62%) Web Services
10 7 (4.64%) JPA
10 7 (4.64%) Pandas
11 6 (3.97%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (3.97%) JDBC
11 6 (3.97%) Jest
11 6 (3.97%) OpenAPI
11 6 (3.97%) Swagger
11 6 (3.97%) WSDL
12 5 (3.31%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 58 (38.41%) Algorithms
2 38 (25.17%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.95%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.28%) Reference Data
5 6 (3.97%) Derivative
5 6 (3.97%) Fixed Income
5 6 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.65%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.99%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.99%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.97%) Unix
2 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (97.35%) Agile
2 143 (94.70%) Software Engineering
3 128 (84.77%) SDLC
4 116 (76.82%) CI/CD
5 98 (64.90%) AI
5 98 (64.90%) Machine Learning
6 86 (56.95%) Community of Practice
7 66 (43.71%) Visualisation
8 54 (35.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (32.45%) Decision-Making
10 37 (24.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (18.54%) Architectural Design
12 28 (18.54%) Information Architecture
13 24 (15.89%) Risk Management
14 22 (14.57%) Data Engineering
15 16 (10.60%) Continuous Delivery
16 14 (9.27%) DevOps
17 11 (7.28%) Analytics
17 11 (7.28%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 104 (68.87%) Java
2 52 (34.44%) SQL
3 51 (33.77%) Python
4 20 (13.25%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.25%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.64%) PL/SQL
6 6 (3.97%) C#
7 3 (1.99%) Scala
7 3 (1.99%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.32%) Bash
8 2 (1.32%) PROC SQL
8 2 (1.32%) R
9 1 (0.66%) C++
9 1 (0.66%) Go
9 1 (0.66%) Rust
9 1 (0.66%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (3.31%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.32%) QA
3 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.30%) Docker
2 6 (3.97%) HDFS
3 2 (1.32%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.66%) RACF
Systems Management
1 32 (21.19%) Kubernetes
2 15 (9.93%) Terraform
3 6 (3.97%) Grafana
4 3 (1.99%) Ansible
4 3 (1.99%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (1.99%) Netcool
4 3 (1.99%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 3 (1.99%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.32%) Kibana
5 2 (1.32%) logstash
5 2 (1.32%) Oozie
Vendors
1 28 (18.54%) Oracle
2 13 (8.61%) Databricks
3 12 (7.95%) Dynatrace
3 12 (7.95%) Splunk
4 9 (5.96%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.65%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.99%) IBM
6 3 (1.99%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.99%) Murex
7 2 (1.32%) Informatica
7 2 (1.32%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.32%) SAP
8 1 (0.66%) Google