Tech Ops Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Tech Ops skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Tech Ops over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 495 641
Rank change year-on-year -25 +146 +46
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 51 293 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.40% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.48% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 32 100 71
10th Percentile £30,925 £38,150 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,227 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £50,000 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% -3.05% +3.66%
75th Percentile £56,750 £67,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £67,250 £72,500 £155,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -2.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Tech Ops 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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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
East of England +60 20 £35,000 - 13
South East +66 15 £45,000 -25.00% 27
Scotland -16 8 £52,000 -15.79% 7
Midlands +27 4 £38,500 -45.00% 17
North of England +13 4 £60,000 +25.00% 17
East Midlands +39 3 £38,500 +10.00% 12
Yorkshire +62 2 £50,000 +19.05% 7
North West -17 2 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Wales +44 1 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands +31 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
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 4 (7.84%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.92%) IIS
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.96%) CICS
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.96%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (11.76%) Azure
2 5 (9.80%) AWS
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.92%) Nutanix
3 2 (3.92%) Sentry
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.96%) GitHub
4 1 (1.96%) Serverless
4 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.69%) DNS
2 4 (7.84%) DHCP
2 4 (7.84%) SAN
2 4 (7.84%) VLAN
3 3 (5.88%) Firewall
3 3 (5.88%) iSCSI
3 3 (5.88%) Network Security
3 3 (5.88%) VPN
4 2 (3.92%) IPsec
5 1 (1.96%) Internet
5 1 (1.96%) LAN
5 1 (1.96%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.96%) Skype
5 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.96%) VSAN
5 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.92%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.96%) Big Data
3 1 (1.96%) DB2
3 1 (1.96%) Impala
3 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.96%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) GitLab
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Law
4 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.73%) Manufacturing
5 6 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (9.80%) Banking
7 4 (7.84%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (5.88%) Billing
9 2 (3.92%) Games
9 2 (3.92%) Marketing
9 2 (3.92%) Retail
10 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.96%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Technical Support
2 10 (19.61%) Senior
2 10 (19.61%) Support Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) IT Manager
4 5 (9.80%) Lead
5 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) QA Specialist
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Service Desk Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.92%) Head of IT Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Kafka
1 2 (3.92%) RESTful
2 1 (1.96%) Spring
2 1 (1.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Biopharmaceutical
1 4 (7.84%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.92%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.92%) iSeries
3 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.92%) PKI
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.96%) IoT
4 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.96%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 7 (13.73%) Linux
3 6 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.88%) CentOS
5 2 (3.92%) VMS
5 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (21.57%) ITIL
3 11 (21.57%) Service Delivery
4 9 (17.65%) Agile
5 8 (15.69%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (11.76%) Customer Service
6 6 (11.76%) Information Security
6 6 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (9.80%) Business Development
7 5 (9.80%) Chemistry
7 5 (9.80%) Manual Testing
7 5 (9.80%) Problem Management
7 5 (9.80%) Project Delivery
7 5 (9.80%) Project Management
7 5 (9.80%) SDLC
7 5 (9.80%) Time Management
8 4 (7.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.80%) Python
1 5 (9.80%) SQL
2 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.92%) Java
4 1 (1.96%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) CCNA
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) CISA
5 1 (1.96%) CISM
5 1 (1.96%) CISMP
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) PhD
5 1 (1.96%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) SLA
2 4 (7.84%) GMP
2 4 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.84%) QA
3 3 (5.88%) GDPR
3 3 (5.88%) GxP
4 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.96%) GRC
5 1 (1.96%) ITGC
5 1 (1.96%) NIST
5 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.88%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.96%) Docker
5 1 (1.96%) KVM
5 1 (1.96%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.84%) Grafana
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.88%) SCCM
3 3 (5.88%) Terraform
4 2 (3.92%) Autotask
4 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.92%) Proxmox
4 2 (3.92%) Puppet
5 1 (1.96%) Ansible
5 1 (1.96%) Netcool
5 1 (1.96%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (1.96%) SCOM
5 1 (1.96%) SCOrch
5 1 (1.96%) SCSM
5 1 (1.96%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) VMware
2 6 (11.76%) Cisco
3 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.84%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.92%) Aruba
5 2 (3.92%) Broadcom
5 2 (3.92%) Datto
5 2 (3.92%) HP
5 2 (3.92%) IBM
5 2 (3.92%) New Relic
5 2 (3.92%) Splunk
6 1 (1.96%) Databricks
6 1 (1.96%) DataCore
6 1 (1.96%) Dell
6 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.96%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) Sage