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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 127 639
Rank change year-on-year -261 +512 +121
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 218 1,225 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 1.99% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 2.51% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 5 44 4
10th Percentile £41,750 £42,238 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £54,763 £64,945
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,465 £67,950
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% -3.66% +48.54%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,991 £70,954
90th Percentile £49,500 £74,638 -
UK median annual salary £64,000 £65,232 £66,475
% change year-on-year -1.89% -1.87% -14.23%

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 38,689 48,882 42,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.94% 79.23% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 20,026 29,595 25,565
10th Percentile £25,313 £29,580 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £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
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 15 August 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 -35 169 - - 3
South West +81 33 - - 1
North of England -5 12 £47,500 -27.44% 4
North West -10 7 £47,500 -27.44% 4
Midlands +46 3 £42,500 -31.73%
West Midlands +36 3 £42,500 -31.73%
North East +12 3 £47,500 +7.29%
Yorkshire -8 2 - -
East of England - 2 - - 1
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 28 (12.84%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.96%) Apache
3 8 (3.67%) Camunda
3 8 (3.67%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.83%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (1.83%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 82 (37.61%) AWS
2 14 (6.42%) Azure
3 10 (4.59%) GitHub
4 8 (3.67%) GCP
5 7 (3.21%) npm
5 7 (3.21%) Yarn
6 6 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.75%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.29%) BlazeMeter
7 5 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (2.29%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.83%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.38%) Dagster
9 3 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.38%) Prefect
10 2 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.92%) Serverless
11 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.83%) PuTTY
2 3 (1.38%) Internet
3 1 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.46%) LAN
3 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.22%) NoSQL
2 30 (13.76%) Big Data
3 14 (6.42%) Apache Cassandra
3 14 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.42%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.50%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (5.50%) Apache Hive
4 12 (5.50%) KDB
4 12 (5.50%) Kdb+
5 11 (5.05%) Hadoop
6 9 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.13%) Apache Iceberg
7 8 (3.67%) HBase
8 7 (3.21%) Impala
8 7 (3.21%) Oracle Database
8 7 (3.21%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.75%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.75%) InterSystems Cache
9 6 (2.75%) MySQL
10 5 (2.29%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 19 (8.72%) JUnit
2 9 (4.13%) Cypress.io
3 8 (3.67%) webpack
4 7 (3.21%) Vite
5 6 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.75%) Maven
6 5 (2.29%) Gradle
6 5 (2.29%) JIRA
7 4 (1.83%) Git
8 3 (1.38%) Mockito
8 3 (1.38%) Selenium
9 1 (0.46%) Ant
9 1 (0.46%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.46%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.46%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.46%) Protractor
9 1 (0.46%) WebDriver
General
1 195 (89.45%) Finance
2 183 (83.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 180 (82.57%) Law
4 86 (39.45%) Marketing
5 85 (38.99%) Banking
6 26 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (7.80%) Legal
7 17 (7.80%) Social Skills
8 12 (5.50%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.67%) Private Banking
10 4 (1.83%) Front Office
10 4 (1.83%) Publishing
11 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (82.57%) Software Engineer
2 90 (41.28%) Java Engineer
2 90 (41.28%) Java Software Engineer
3 67 (30.73%) Lead
4 52 (23.85%) Lead Software Engineer
5 45 (20.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 45 (20.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 43 (19.72%) Python Engineer
6 43 (19.72%) Python Software Engineer
7 20 (9.17%) Lead Java Engineer
8 18 (8.26%) Developer
9 17 (7.80%) Java Developer
10 10 (4.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 10 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (4.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (4.59%) Senior
10 10 (4.59%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) AWS Software Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (40.83%) Spring
2 61 (27.98%) Kafka
3 60 (27.52%) React
4 49 (22.48%) Spring Boot
5 32 (14.68%) AngularJS
6 29 (13.30%) REST
7 18 (8.26%) RESTful
8 17 (7.80%) CSS
8 17 (7.80%) PySpark
9 14 (6.42%) HTML
10 13 (5.96%) Web Services
11 9 (4.13%) JPA
11 9 (4.13%) Pandas
12 8 (3.67%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (3.67%) JDBC
12 8 (3.67%) OpenAPI
12 8 (3.67%) Swagger
12 8 (3.67%) WSDL
13 7 (3.21%) Jest
14 5 (2.29%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 82 (37.61%) Algorithms
2 50 (22.94%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.88%) Public Cloud
3 15 (6.88%) Reference Data
4 14 (6.42%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.67%) Derivative
5 8 (3.67%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.83%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.38%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.67%) Unix
2 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.92%) zOS
3 1 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (97.25%) Agile
2 190 (87.16%) Software Engineering
3 169 (77.52%) SDLC
4 160 (73.39%) CI/CD
5 129 (59.17%) Artificial Intelligence
5 129 (59.17%) Machine Learning
6 116 (53.21%) Community of Practice
7 95 (43.58%) Visualisation
8 77 (35.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 62 (28.44%) Decision-Making
10 50 (22.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 39 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (17.89%) Risk Management
12 37 (16.97%) Data Engineering
13 35 (16.06%) Architectural Design
13 35 (16.06%) Information Architecture
14 31 (14.22%) DevOps
15 29 (13.30%) Continuous Delivery
16 25 (11.47%) Roadmaps
17 24 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (65.14%) Java
2 70 (32.11%) SQL
3 69 (31.65%) Python
4 29 (13.30%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.84%) TypeScript
6 9 (4.13%) C#
7 8 (3.67%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.83%) Scala
8 4 (1.83%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.38%) Bash
9 3 (1.38%) PROC SQL
9 3 (1.38%) R
10 2 (0.92%) C++
10 2 (0.92%) Swift
11 1 (0.46%) C
11 1 (0.46%) Go
11 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (3.21%) AWS Certification
2 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.96%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.38%) QA
4 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (5.50%) Docker
2 8 (3.67%) HDFS
3 3 (1.38%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.92%) RACF
5 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (21.10%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.63%) Terraform
3 12 (5.50%) Grafana
4 4 (1.83%) Ansible
4 4 (1.83%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (1.83%) Netcool
4 4 (1.83%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 4 (1.83%) Tivoli
5 3 (1.38%) Kibana
5 3 (1.38%) logstash
5 3 (1.38%) Oozie
Vendors
1 40 (18.35%) Oracle
2 20 (9.17%) Splunk
3 19 (8.72%) Databricks
3 19 (8.72%) Dynatrace
4 17 (7.80%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.75%) Microsoft
6 5 (2.29%) Cloudera
6 5 (2.29%) IBM
6 5 (2.29%) Informatica
7 3 (1.38%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (1.38%) Murex
7 3 (1.38%) SAP
8 2 (0.92%) Cisco
9 1 (0.46%) F5
9 1 (0.46%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.46%) Google
9 1 (0.46%) Sybase
9 1 (0.46%) VMware