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 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 522 149 942
Rank change year-on-year -373 +793 +135
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 192 1,967 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 1.93% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 2.28% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 39 53 17
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,920 £41,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £62,783 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +0.45% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £67,968 £75,000
90th Percentile £140,677 £141,032 £83,000
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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Top 13 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 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
England +198 126 £64,000 +1.94% 71
UK excluding London -366 107 £50,000 -20.36% 60
London +182 84 £64,000 -44.25% 39
Scotland -90 65 - - 24
North of England +35 26 £50,000 -20.36% 11
Work from Home +98 23 £64,000 +1.94% 17
North West +7 17 £45,000 -28.32% 11
South West +110 12 - - 7
Yorkshire +57 8 £122,773 +95.55%
West Midlands +60 2 - - 1
Midlands +53 2 - - 1
East of England - 2 - - 4
North East +41 1 £47,500 -24.34%

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 12 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.08%) Apache
2 4 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.04%) Camunda
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) CICS
4 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) SAS
4 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 69 (35.94%) AWS
2 22 (11.46%) Azure
3 17 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (8.85%) Serverless
4 16 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 14 (7.29%) GCP
6 9 (4.69%) SaaS
7 6 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.08%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.08%) BlazeMeter
10 3 (1.56%) GitHub
10 3 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.04%) Apigee
11 2 (1.04%) npm
11 2 (1.04%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.04%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) FTP
1 3 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (1.04%) PuTTY
2 2 (1.04%) SSL
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) Firewall
3 1 (0.52%) Internet
3 1 (0.52%) LAN
3 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.46%) NoSQL
2 17 (8.85%) DynamoDB
3 16 (8.33%) Power BI
4 15 (7.81%) Big Data
4 15 (7.81%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.65%) KDB
6 7 (3.65%) Kdb+
7 6 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.08%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.56%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.56%) MySQL
10 3 (1.56%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (4.69%) JUnit
2 6 (3.13%) Git
2 6 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (2.60%) Vite
4 3 (1.56%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.56%) Maven
5 2 (1.04%) Gradle
5 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.04%) JIRA
5 2 (1.04%) Mockito
5 2 (1.04%) webpack
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) Selenium
6 1 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 128 (66.67%) Finance
2 101 (52.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 98 (51.04%) Law
4 69 (35.94%) Banking
5 44 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (15.63%) Marketing
7 20 (10.42%) Social Skills
8 17 (8.85%) Publishing
9 16 (8.33%) Health Technology
9 16 (8.33%) Tech for Good
10 13 (6.77%) Front Office
11 11 (5.73%) Investment Banking
12 9 (4.69%) Legal
13 3 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.04%) Back Office
14 2 (1.04%) Billing
14 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.04%) Private Banking
15 1 (0.52%) Games
15 1 (0.52%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (52.08%) Software Engineer
2 70 (36.46%) Lead
3 46 (23.96%) Lead Software Engineer
4 39 (20.31%) Senior
5 34 (17.71%) Java Engineer
6 33 (17.19%) Java Software Engineer
7 30 (15.63%) Developer
8 23 (11.98%) Python Engineer
8 23 (11.98%) Python Software Engineer
9 22 (11.46%) Analyst
10 19 (9.90%) Senior Developer
10 19 (9.90%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (8.85%) Software Developer
12 16 (8.33%) Data Engineer
13 13 (6.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 13 (6.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 11 (5.73%) Senior Software Developer
15 10 (5.21%) Lead Java Engineer
16 9 (4.69%) Java Developer
16 9 (4.69%) Software Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (25.00%) React
2 34 (17.71%) Kafka
2 34 (17.71%) Spring
3 26 (13.54%) RESTful
4 18 (9.38%) Swagger
5 17 (8.85%) Spring Boot
6 11 (5.73%) AngularJS
6 11 (5.73%) PySpark
7 9 (4.69%) Node.js
7 9 (4.69%) REST
8 8 (4.17%) CSS
9 6 (3.13%) .NET
9 6 (3.13%) Express.js
10 5 (2.60%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (2.60%) Jest
10 5 (2.60%) Web Services
11 4 (2.08%) HTML
11 4 (2.08%) OpenAPI
12 3 (1.56%) JPA
12 3 (1.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 35 (18.23%) Algorithms
3 26 (13.54%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (6.25%) Public Cloud
6 10 (5.21%) Derivative
7 6 (3.13%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.60%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.60%) Equities
9 4 (2.08%) Data Structures
9 4 (2.08%) Mainframe
9 4 (2.08%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.08%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.56%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.56%) iSeries
11 2 (1.04%) CMDB
11 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.04%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (1.04%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.21%) Linux
1 10 (5.21%) Unix
2 7 (3.65%) zOS
3 3 (1.56%) Windows
4 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.04%) Solaris
5 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (92.71%) Agile
2 110 (57.29%) CI/CD
2 110 (57.29%) Software Engineering
3 95 (49.48%) SDLC
4 69 (35.94%) Community of Practice
5 66 (34.38%) Continuous Delivery
6 60 (31.25%) Machine Learning
7 58 (30.21%) Artificial Intelligence
8 55 (28.65%) DevOps
9 54 (28.13%) Roadmaps
10 51 (26.56%) Visualisation
11 46 (23.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (20.31%) Data Engineering
13 35 (18.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (17.19%) Continuous Integration
15 32 (16.67%) Risk Management
15 32 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
16 29 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (14.58%) ITIL
18 25 (13.02%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (37.50%) Python
2 68 (35.42%) Java
3 53 (27.60%) SQL
4 38 (19.79%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.85%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.73%) Go
7 10 (5.21%) C#
8 9 (4.69%) PL/SQL
9 8 (4.17%) C++
10 4 (2.08%) C
10 4 (2.08%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.56%) Scala
12 2 (1.04%) Lua
12 2 (1.04%) Rust
13 1 (0.52%) Bash
13 1 (0.52%) PROC SQL
13 1 (0.52%) R
13 1 (0.52%) Smalltalk
13 1 (0.52%) Swift
13 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (4.69%) AWS Certification
2 8 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 8 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.65%) Degree
4 4 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.56%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.04%) CCNA
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.04%) PhD
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 18 (9.38%) QA
3 14 (7.29%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.04%) NIST
4 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (7.81%) Docker
2 3 (1.56%) HDFS
3 2 (1.04%) RACF
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (19.27%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.46%) Terraform
3 9 (4.69%) Grafana
4 2 (1.04%) Ansible
4 2 (1.04%) Mesos
4 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.52%) Argo
5 1 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.52%) Kibana
5 1 (0.52%) logstash
5 1 (0.52%) Netcool
5 1 (0.52%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.52%) Oozie
5 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 22 (11.46%) Oracle
2 15 (7.81%) ServiceNow
3 9 (4.69%) Databricks
3 9 (4.69%) Splunk
4 8 (4.17%) Informatica
5 7 (3.65%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.65%) Google
5 7 (3.65%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.08%) Cisco
7 3 (1.56%) F5
7 3 (1.56%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.04%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.04%) IBM
8 2 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.04%) MKS
8 2 (1.04%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.52%) SAP
9 1 (0.52%) Sybase