Operational Stability Job Trends

Operational Stability
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 315 263
Rank change year-on-year -334 -52 +492
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 152 423 828
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.86% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.96% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 79 44 59
10th Percentile £45,500 £42,500 £42,238
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,750 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £64,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +13.28% -2.24% -3.66%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £71,991
90th Percentile £107,970 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £47,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year +42.11% -27.44% -3.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,630 43,847 63,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.77% 88.67% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57,445 24,695 36,468
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Operational Stability relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in the UK

Operational Stability
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Operational Stability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. 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
England -200 130 £75,000 +17.19% 340
UK excluding London -222 84 £67,500 +42.11% 244
London -186 63 £85,000 +32.81% 247
Work from Home -35 37 £69,305 +8.29% 37
Midlands -28 22 £63,750 +50.00% 10
North of England -44 21 £75,000 +57.89% 14
East Midlands - 14 £67,500 - 2
Scotland -96 13 £107,500 - 147
South West -99 11 £77,500 - 54
North West -9 10 £82,500 +65.00% 12
West Midlands -31 8 £53,750 +26.47% 8
North East -56 8 £75,000 +57.89% 2
South East - 7 £65,000 - 16
East of England -23 5 £55,000 - 6
Wales - 5 £52,500 -
Yorkshire -29 3 £43,000 -

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.66%) Apache
2 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.66%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.66%) Confluence
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.29%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (31.58%) Azure
2 45 (29.61%) AWS
3 13 (8.55%) GCP
4 12 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (7.89%) Serverless
5 11 (7.24%) GitHub
6 7 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (4.61%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.95%) GitHub Copilot
7 6 (3.95%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.29%) SaaS
9 4 (2.63%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.97%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.97%) Azure Databricks
10 3 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.89%) Firewall
1 12 (7.89%) LAN
1 12 (7.89%) WAN
2 7 (4.61%) Network Security
3 6 (3.95%) Wireless
4 5 (3.29%) Internet
5 4 (2.63%) BGP
5 4 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (2.63%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (2.63%) OSPF
5 4 (2.63%) TACACS
5 4 (2.63%) WLAN
6 3 (1.97%) DNS
6 3 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.32%) HTTP
7 2 (1.32%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.32%) SAN
7 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.24%) DynamoDB
2 10 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.95%) KDB
3 6 (3.95%) Power BI
4 5 (3.29%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.29%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.63%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.97%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.97%) Kdb+
6 3 (1.97%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.97%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.32%) Metadata
7 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (7.89%) JIRA
2 3 (1.97%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.32%) Git
3 2 (1.32%) GitLab
4 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.66%) Flyway
4 1 (0.66%) Liquibase
General
1 72 (47.37%) Finance
2 40 (26.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 40 (26.32%) Law
3 34 (22.37%) Social Skills
4 30 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (16.45%) Marketing
6 17 (11.18%) Banking
7 12 (7.89%) Retail
8 10 (6.58%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.61%) Financial Institution
10 6 (3.95%) Front Office
10 6 (3.95%) Investment Banking
11 5 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (3.29%) Legal
11 5 (3.29%) Publishing
12 4 (2.63%) Health Technology
12 4 (2.63%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.63%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (26.32%) Lead
2 28 (18.42%) Software Engineer
3 27 (17.76%) Senior
4 17 (11.18%) Developer
4 17 (11.18%) Lead Software Engineer
5 13 (8.55%) IT Manager
6 12 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.58%) Architect
8 9 (5.92%) Network Engineer
9 8 (5.26%) Service Manager
10 7 (4.61%) AWS Developer
10 7 (4.61%) Data Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) Lead Architect
10 7 (4.61%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.61%) React Developer
10 7 (4.61%) Senior Python Developer
10 7 (4.61%) Senior React Developer
10 7 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) Applications Manager
11 6 (3.95%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.42%) Terraform
2 12 (7.89%) React
3 10 (6.58%) RESTful
3 10 (6.58%) Swagger
4 8 (5.26%) .NET
4 8 (5.26%) Kafka
5 7 (4.61%) PySpark
6 4 (2.63%) 802.1X
6 4 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.97%) A2A Protocol
7 3 (1.97%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.97%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.97%) CrewAI
7 3 (1.97%) LangChain
7 3 (1.97%) LangGraph
7 3 (1.97%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.97%) Ray
7 3 (1.97%) vLLM
8 2 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.92%) AI Agents
3 9 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.92%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.92%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.92%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 8 (5.26%) Taxonomies
5 7 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.29%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.97%) Equities
8 3 (1.97%) Replication
8 3 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.32%) CMDB
9 2 (1.32%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.53%) Linux
2 10 (6.58%) Windows
3 9 (5.92%) Unix
4 7 (4.61%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.66%) CentOS
6 1 (0.66%) Debian
6 1 (0.66%) Solaris
6 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 50 (32.89%) Agile
3 46 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (25.66%) CI/CD
5 36 (23.68%) AI
6 35 (23.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (21.71%) Software Engineering
8 32 (21.05%) Roadmaps
9 26 (17.11%) Root Cause Analysis
10 23 (15.13%) DevOps
10 23 (15.13%) Service Delivery
11 22 (14.47%) SDLC
12 21 (13.82%) Computer Science
12 21 (13.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (13.16%) Analytics
13 20 (13.16%) Mentoring
13 20 (13.16%) Test Automation
14 19 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (12.50%) ITIL
14 19 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.03%) Python
2 17 (11.18%) SQL
3 13 (8.55%) TypeScript
4 11 (7.24%) Java
5 8 (5.26%) C#
6 7 (4.61%) Go
7 5 (3.29%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.29%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.97%) Bash
9 2 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.66%) C
10 1 (0.66%) C++
10 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.66%) Perl
10 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (21.71%) Degree
2 13 (8.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (6.58%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (4.61%) CISSP
6 6 (3.95%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.63%) CCSP
7 4 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.97%) CCNA
8 3 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.97%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.97%) MCSE
8 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.32%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.32%) PMP
9 2 (1.32%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) QA
2 7 (4.61%) SLA
3 5 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.92%) Docker
3 5 (3.29%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.97%) IAG
6 2 (1.32%) Firmware
6 2 (1.32%) ProxySG
6 2 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (15.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.61%) Grafana
3 6 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.29%) Puppet
5 4 (2.63%) Ansible
5 4 (2.63%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.97%) SCCM
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.66%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.92%) Databricks
3 7 (4.61%) Cisco
4 6 (3.95%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.29%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.29%) JD Edwards
5 5 (3.29%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.63%) Veeam
6 4 (2.63%) VMware
7 3 (1.97%) Google
7 3 (1.97%) NVIDIA
7 3 (1.97%) Oracle
8 2 (1.32%) Arista
8 2 (1.32%) Broadcom
8 2 (1.32%) Netskope
8 2 (1.32%) Splunk
8 2 (1.32%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.66%) Meraki
9 1 (0.66%) New Relic