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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 532 456
Rank change year-on-year +77 -76 +316
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 53 63 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.17% 0.29%
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% -6.28%
75th Percentile £93,125 £71,991 £70,954
90th Percentile £119,750 £95,327 £71,582
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 31,877 36,632 27,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.56% 84.44% 93.80%
Number of salaries quoted 18,871 17,705 20,325
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,748 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,500
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 6 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 6 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
Scotland +26 42 - -
South West +28 7 - - 3
North of England +12 3 £47,500 -27.44% 14
North East +6 2 £45,000 +1.64% 2
North West +35 1 £135,000 +106.22% 7
West Midlands +34 1 £42,500 -35.08% 7
Midlands +31 1 £42,500 -35.08% 8
South East - 1 - - 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (16.98%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.66%) Apache
2 3 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.77%) Camunda
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.77%) SAS
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 22 (41.51%) AWS
2 5 (9.43%) Azure
3 4 (7.55%) GitHub
4 3 (5.66%) GCP
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.77%) npm
5 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.77%) Yarn
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.89%) Dagster
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.89%) Prefect
6 1 (1.89%) Serverless
6 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Big Data
1 9 (16.98%) NoSQL
2 5 (9.43%) Apache Hive
2 5 (9.43%) Hadoop
3 4 (7.55%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (7.55%) HBase
3 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.66%) Impala
4 3 (5.66%) KDB
4 3 (5.66%) Kdb+
4 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.77%) Neo4j
5 2 (3.77%) Power BI
5 2 (3.77%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (3.77%) Spark SQL
5 2 (3.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) JUnit
2 3 (5.66%) Git
2 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.66%) Maven
2 3 (5.66%) webpack
3 2 (3.77%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.77%) Gradle
3 2 (3.77%) Vite
4 1 (1.89%) Ant
4 1 (1.89%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.89%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (1.89%) Mockito
4 1 (1.89%) Protractor
4 1 (1.89%) Selenium
4 1 (1.89%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (88.68%) Finance
1 47 (88.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 47 (88.68%) Law
2 24 (45.28%) Marketing
3 21 (39.62%) Banking
4 5 (9.43%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Legal
6 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Private Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.89%) Front Office
8 1 (1.89%) Publishing
8 1 (1.89%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (88.68%) Software Engineer
2 25 (47.17%) Java Engineer
2 25 (47.17%) Java Software Engineer
3 13 (24.53%) Lead
3 13 (24.53%) Lead Software Engineer
4 11 (20.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 11 (20.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 11 (20.75%) Python Engineer
4 11 (20.75%) Python Software Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Lead Java Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Java Software Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (41.51%) Spring
2 16 (30.19%) Kafka
3 14 (26.42%) React
4 10 (18.87%) Spring Boot
5 8 (15.09%) REST
6 7 (13.21%) AngularJS
6 7 (13.21%) PySpark
7 4 (7.55%) CSS
7 4 (7.55%) HTML
7 4 (7.55%) RESTful
7 4 (7.55%) Web Services
8 3 (5.66%) JPA
8 3 (5.66%) Pandas
9 2 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (3.77%) Node.js
9 2 (3.77%) NumPy
9 2 (3.77%) Regular Expression
9 2 (3.77%) scikit-learn
9 2 (3.77%) Swagger
9 2 (3.77%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.74%) Algorithms
2 11 (20.75%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.66%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.77%) Derivative
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Unix
2 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (96.23%) Agile
1 51 (96.23%) Software Engineering
2 45 (84.91%) SDLC
3 40 (75.47%) CI/CD
4 36 (67.92%) AI
4 36 (67.92%) Machine Learning
5 29 (54.72%) Community of Practice
6 24 (45.28%) Visualisation
7 18 (33.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (33.96%) Decision-Making
8 12 (22.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (15.09%) Architectural Design
10 8 (15.09%) Information Architecture
11 6 (11.32%) Data Engineering
11 6 (11.32%) Risk Management
12 5 (9.43%) ETL
13 4 (7.55%) Continuous Delivery
13 4 (7.55%) TDD
13 4 (7.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (69.81%) Java
2 20 (37.74%) SQL
3 19 (35.85%) Python
4 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.32%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.66%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.77%) Bash
7 2 (3.77%) C#
7 2 (3.77%) PROC SQL
7 2 (3.77%) R
8 1 (1.89%) C++
8 1 (1.89%) Go
8 1 (1.89%) Rust
8 1 (1.89%) Scala
8 1 (1.89%) Swift
8 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) HDFS
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Flume
2 2 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.43%) Terraform
3 2 (3.77%) Grafana
3 2 (3.77%) Kibana
3 2 (3.77%) logstash
3 2 (3.77%) Oozie
4 1 (1.89%) Ansible
4 1 (1.89%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (1.89%) Netcool
4 1 (1.89%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (1.89%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Oracle
2 6 (11.32%) Databricks
3 4 (7.55%) Dynatrace
3 4 (7.55%) Splunk
4 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.77%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.77%) Informatica
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.77%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (3.77%) SAP
6 1 (1.89%) Google
6 1 (1.89%) IBM
6 1 (1.89%) Murex