Tech Ops Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Tech Ops skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Tech Ops over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 648 671
Rank change year-on-year +160 +23 -99
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 280 106 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 91 71 113
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,298 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -11.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £86,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £155,000 £80,750
UK median annual salary £52,653 £50,500 £54,550
% change year-on-year +4.26% -7.42% +3.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Tech Ops is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58,967 59,586 66,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.56% 95.62% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 41,027 30,487 41,555
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
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 Tech Ops within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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 +75 157 £61,750 +11.76% 2
North of England +57 40 £48,000 +6.91% 5
Midlands +48 35 £50,000 +3.55% 6
West Midlands +57 30 £70,000 +133.33% 3
South East +9 30 £45,000 +16.13% 11
North West +23 26 £50,000 +14.94% 3
North East +11 11 £46,382 +0.18%
South West -29 11 £55,000 +27.91% 10
East Midlands -10 5 £40,250 -43.31% 3
Wales +4 4 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Yorkshire +76 3 £39,750 +51.43% 2
East of England +33 3 £35,000 -46.15% 7
Tech Ops
UK

Tech Ops
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 84 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 17 (6.07%) FileNet
3 16 (5.71%) Cloud Foundry
4 7 (2.50%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.43%) CMS
5 4 (1.43%) Umbraco
6 3 (1.07%) IIS
6 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 90 (32.14%) AWS
2 73 (26.07%) Azure
3 32 (11.43%) GCP
4 17 (6.07%) Amazon S3
5 12 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.14%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.43%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.36%) Boomi
10 1 (0.36%) Datadog
10 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.71%) Kerberos
2 14 (5.00%) Firewall
3 7 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.14%) DNS
4 6 (2.14%) Network Security
4 6 (2.14%) VSAN
5 5 (1.79%) VPN
5 5 (1.79%) WAN
6 4 (1.43%) DHCP
7 3 (1.07%) LAN
8 2 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.71%) Internet
8 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.71%) VLAN
8 2 (0.71%) VoIP
9 1 (0.36%) SAN
9 1 (0.36%) SSH
9 1 (0.36%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (24.64%) NoSQL
2 51 (18.21%) Big Data
3 17 (6.07%) Apache Cassandra
3 17 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (5.71%) CockroachDB
5 9 (3.21%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.79%) MaxDB
6 5 (1.79%) SAP HANA
7 4 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.43%) Power BI
8 3 (1.07%) GIS
8 3 (1.07%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.07%) MySQL
9 2 (0.71%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.07%) JUnit
2 7 (2.50%) Git
3 4 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.43%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.07%) JIRA
General
1 179 (63.93%) Finance
2 165 (58.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 158 (56.43%) Law
4 143 (51.07%) Marketing
5 53 (18.93%) Influencing Skills
6 41 (14.64%) Analytical Skills
7 36 (12.86%) Social Skills
8 12 (4.29%) Banking
8 12 (4.29%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.29%) Legal
9 10 (3.57%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (3.21%) Police
11 8 (2.86%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.14%) Games
13 5 (1.79%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.43%) Military
15 3 (1.07%) Retail
15 3 (1.07%) Social Housing
16 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (62.50%) Lead
2 167 (59.64%) Senior
3 146 (52.14%) Lead Software Engineer
3 146 (52.14%) Senior Software Engineer
3 146 (52.14%) Software Engineer
4 72 (25.71%) Java Engineer
4 72 (25.71%) Java Software Engineer
4 72 (25.71%) Lead Java Engineer
4 72 (25.71%) Senior Java Engineer
4 72 (25.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 50 (17.86%) Big Data Engineer
5 50 (17.86%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 50 (17.86%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 50 (17.86%) Scala Engineer
5 50 (17.86%) Scala Software Engineer
5 50 (17.86%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 50 (17.86%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 50 (17.86%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
6 44 (15.71%) Java Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (8.21%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.14%) PySpark
2 33 (11.79%) GraphQL
2 33 (11.79%) Kafka
2 33 (11.79%) Spring
3 20 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 20 (7.14%) HTML
3 20 (7.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 17 (6.07%) CSS
4 17 (6.07%) Hibernate
4 17 (6.07%) J2EE
4 17 (6.07%) JMS
4 17 (6.07%) jQuery
4 17 (6.07%) JSON
4 17 (6.07%) Node.js
4 17 (6.07%) React
4 17 (6.07%) Spring Integration
5 16 (5.71%) OAuth
5 16 (5.71%) REST
6 8 (2.86%) .NET
7 5 (1.79%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.43%) Cloud Native
2 28 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.21%) Biopharmaceutical
4 9 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.21%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.14%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.79%) CMDB
6 5 (1.79%) Cyberattack
7 4 (1.43%) PKI
7 4 (1.43%) Tandem
8 3 (1.07%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.07%) Housing Association
8 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.36%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.36%) PropTech
9 1 (0.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.64%) Windows
2 22 (7.86%) Windows Server
3 17 (6.07%) Linux
4 5 (1.79%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.43%) Android
6 2 (0.71%) Debian
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.36%) Solaris
7 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (67.14%) Problem-Solving
2 172 (61.43%) Agile
3 156 (55.71%) Software Engineering
4 152 (54.29%) Operational Stability
5 151 (53.93%) SDLC
6 132 (47.14%) Machine Learning
7 131 (46.79%) Artificial Intelligence
8 106 (37.86%) Decision-Making
9 57 (20.36%) Microservices
10 55 (19.64%) Performance Tuning
11 40 (14.29%) Computer Science
12 39 (13.93%) ITIL
13 38 (13.57%) ETL
14 35 (12.50%) Customer Service
15 34 (12.14%) Data Engineering
15 34 (12.14%) Quality Management
16 33 (11.79%) CI/CD
16 33 (11.79%) Mathematics
17 29 (10.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 27 (9.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 151 (53.93%) Java
2 86 (30.71%) SQL
3 59 (21.07%) Python
4 50 (17.86%) Scala
5 20 (7.14%) C#
5 20 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.07%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.79%) ABAP
9 4 (1.43%) C
10 1 (0.36%) C++
10 1 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 26 (9.29%) Degree
2 12 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.21%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.50%) A+ Certification
5 7 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.79%) CCNA
8 4 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.43%) MCSA
8 4 (1.43%) MRICS
8 4 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.07%) MCITP
10 2 (0.71%) CCNP
10 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.36%) HNC
11 1 (0.36%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.14%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.43%) QA
3 7 (2.50%) PMO
3 7 (2.50%) SLA
4 5 (1.79%) GxP
4 5 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.43%) GDPR
5 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.07%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.36%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 28 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.14%) vSphere
4 5 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (12.14%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.00%) Terraform
3 4 (1.43%) Grafana
3 4 (1.43%) SCCM
4 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.36%) Autotask
5 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.07%) Oracle
3 16 (5.71%) Cisco
3 16 (5.71%) Google
3 16 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 13 (4.64%) VMware
5 11 (3.93%) SAP
6 6 (2.14%) Meraki
7 5 (1.79%) Dell
7 5 (1.79%) Sybase
8 4 (1.43%) Databricks
8 4 (1.43%) HP
9 3 (1.07%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.07%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.07%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.07%) Sophos
10 2 (0.71%) Citrix
10 2 (0.71%) ForeScout
10 2 (0.71%) Mitel