Operational Stability Jobs

Operational Stability
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 595 147 960
Rank change year-on-year -448 +813 +103
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 97 1,961 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 1.99% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 2.32% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 41 50 14
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,920 £40,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,587 £41,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,783 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +30.12% -31.07%
75th Percentile £76,000 £67,968 £73,750
90th Percentile £140,677 £155,665 £81,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £62,783 £77,500
% change year-on-year -20.36% -18.99% +70.37%

All Process and 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 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability.

Salary trend for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Top 9 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 1 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
England +163 69 £64,000 +1.94% 63
UK excluding London -404 53 £50,000 -20.36% 53
London +136 44 £64,000 -57.22% 36
Scotland -107 28 - - 21
Work from Home +177 27 £70,000 +11.50% 25
North of England +77 24 £50,000 -20.36% 10
North West +39 18 £45,000 -28.32% 9
Yorkshire +69 6 £122,773 +95.55%
South West +88 1 - - 13

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.03%) CICS
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.05%) AWS
2 21 (21.65%) AWS Lambda
2 21 (21.65%) Serverless
3 17 (17.53%) Azure
4 14 (14.43%) Power Platform
5 9 (9.28%) Amazon S3
5 9 (9.28%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (9.28%) SaaS
6 8 (8.25%) GCP
7 5 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.09%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.06%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.25%) SSL
2 3 (3.09%) FTP
2 3 (3.09%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.03%) DNS
3 1 (1.03%) Firewall
3 1 (1.03%) LAN
3 1 (1.03%) PuTTY
3 1 (1.03%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.03%) VPN
3 1 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.43%) Power BI
2 12 (12.37%) DynamoDB
3 10 (10.31%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (2.06%) Big Data
6 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (3.09%) JUnit
3 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 42 (43.30%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (26.80%) Finance
3 19 (19.59%) Health Technology
3 19 (19.59%) Publishing
3 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.59%) Tech for Good
4 9 (9.28%) Influencing Skills
4 9 (9.28%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Banking
6 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.06%) Billing
8 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Games
8 1 (1.03%) Marketing
8 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (37.11%) Analyst
2 20 (20.62%) Developer
2 20 (20.62%) Lead
3 18 (18.56%) Asset Management Analyst
4 15 (15.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 15 (15.46%) Senior
5 12 (12.37%) Data Engineer
5 12 (12.37%) Senior Developer
6 11 (11.34%) Software Engineer
7 10 (10.31%) Lead Software Engineer
8 9 (9.28%) Python Developer
8 9 (9.28%) Software Analyst
8 9 (9.28%) Software Developer
9 8 (8.25%) Project Analyst
10 6 (6.19%) Senior Python Developer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (5.15%) Java Developer
12 4 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Python Engineer
12 4 (4.12%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.59%) React
1 19 (19.59%) RESTful
2 10 (10.31%) Swagger
3 8 (8.25%) Kafka
3 8 (8.25%) Middleware
4 6 (6.19%) .NET
4 6 (6.19%) Express.js
4 6 (6.19%) Node.js
5 5 (5.15%) PySpark
6 3 (3.09%) CSS
6 3 (3.09%) Spring
7 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.28%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.25%) Clustering
4 6 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.15%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.12%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.09%) iSeries
7 3 (3.09%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.06%) CMDB
8 2 (2.06%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (2.06%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.03%) NHS
9 1 (1.03%) PropTech
9 1 (1.03%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.37%) zOS
2 11 (11.34%) Linux
2 11 (11.34%) Unix
3 8 (8.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (8.25%) Solaris
4 3 (3.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (87.63%) Agile
2 59 (60.82%) CI/CD
3 53 (54.64%) Roadmaps
4 52 (53.61%) Continuous Integration
5 51 (52.58%) Continuous Delivery
6 48 (49.48%) DevOps
7 46 (47.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 46 (47.42%) Technology Roadmap
8 39 (40.21%) Customer Service
9 28 (28.87%) Mentoring
10 24 (24.74%) ITIL
11 22 (22.68%) Coaching
12 20 (20.62%) Asset Management
13 19 (19.59%) Pair Programming
13 19 (19.59%) Scrum
13 19 (19.59%) TDD
14 16 (16.49%) Software Engineering
14 16 (16.49%) Software Testing
14 16 (16.49%) Visualisation
15 14 (14.43%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.84%) Python
2 20 (20.62%) SQL
3 19 (19.59%) TypeScript
4 9 (9.28%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.19%) C#
5 6 (6.19%) Java
5 6 (6.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.09%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.09%) Degree
2 3 (3.09%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.06%) CCNA
3 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (34.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 19 (19.59%) Data Quality
2 19 (19.59%) QA
3 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.06%) NIST
3 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) RACF
2 1 (1.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.19%) Terraform
3 3 (3.09%) Grafana
4 1 (1.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (21.65%) ServiceNow
2 15 (15.46%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.25%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.22%) Informatica
5 6 (6.19%) Oracle
6 5 (5.15%) Cisco
7 4 (4.12%) Google
8 3 (3.09%) Dynatrace
8 3 (3.09%) F5
8 3 (3.09%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.09%) Splunk
9 2 (2.06%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (2.06%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.06%) VMware
10 1 (1.03%) IBM
10 1 (1.03%) Mitel