Operational Technology Jobs

Operational Technology (OT)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 568 630
Rank change year-on-year +21 +62 +416
Permanent jobs citing Operational Technology 172 352 383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.35% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 1.00% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 107 218 144
10th Percentile £44,000 £39,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £46,563 £52,401
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,375 £85,625
90th Percentile £93,000 £77,500 £98,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £52,084 £65,000
% change year-on-year +24.80% -19.87% +4.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

Operational Technology falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,704 35,199 43,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.74% 35.47% 43.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,996 23,075 23,477
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £108,133
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in the UK

Operational Technology
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Operational Technology in the UK

Operational Technology
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Operational Technology in the UK

Operational Technology
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Technology within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 -14 145 £65,000 +18.18% 235
UK excluding London +49 141 £65,000 +24.80% 181
North of England +33 57 £65,000 +24.80% 55
Work from Home +85 43 £65,000 +15.18% 196
Yorkshire +88 37 £65,000 +27.45% 31
Midlands +44 33 £67,500 +17.39% 30
West Midlands +44 32 £67,500 +17.39% 18
South East +83 21 £65,000 +10.64% 60
London +70 21 £90,000 +24.14% 74
North East +53 14 £65,000 -8.77% 9
Scotland +103 12 £62,500 +22.55% 9
South West +87 10 £46,000 -3.16% 16
North West -52 6 £85,000 +63.20% 17
Wales +42 4 £75,875 +89.69% 4
East of England +11 4 £59,250 +31.67% 11
East Midlands +35 1 £66,000 +65.00% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Operational Technology
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 (1.16%) IBM Domino
1 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.16%) ThingWorx
2 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.58%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (16.28%) Azure
2 24 (13.95%) AWS
3 12 (6.98%) OCI
4 11 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.07%) SaaS
6 6 (3.49%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.58%) Akamai
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.58%) GCP
9 1 (0.58%) GitHub
9 1 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.58%) IaaS
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.58%) PaaS
9 1 (0.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.79%) Network Security
2 17 (9.88%) Firewall
3 12 (6.98%) WAN
4 10 (5.81%) VPN
5 8 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (4.07%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (2.91%) 5G
8 4 (2.33%) 4G
8 4 (2.33%) Modbus
8 4 (2.33%) MPLS
8 4 (2.33%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.33%) Unified Communications
8 4 (2.33%) VoIP
9 3 (1.74%) LAN
9 3 (1.74%) LoRaWAN
10 2 (1.16%) Cisco Firepower
10 2 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (1.16%) Internet
10 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.16%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (10.47%) JIRA
1 18 (10.47%) Selenium
2 4 (2.33%) Git
3 2 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (29.65%) Manufacturing
2 39 (22.67%) Finance
3 31 (18.02%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.23%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.49%) Banking
6 6 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.91%) Automotive
8 4 (2.33%) Back Office
8 4 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.74%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.74%) Electronics
10 2 (1.16%) Legal
10 2 (1.16%) Police
10 2 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Aviation
11 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (26.74%) Automation Engineer
2 31 (18.02%) Lead
3 26 (15.12%) Architect
4 25 (14.53%) Systems Engineer
5 19 (11.05%) Analyst
6 18 (10.47%) Validation Engineer
7 11 (6.40%) Operations Analyst
8 10 (5.81%) Consultant
8 10 (5.81%) IT Manager
9 8 (4.65%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (4.65%) Infrastructure Architect
9 8 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.07%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 7 (4.07%) Security Consultant
10 7 (4.07%) Security Manager
11 6 (3.49%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.49%) Operations Business Analyst
12 5 (2.91%) Information Manager
12 5 (2.91%) Security Analyst
12 5 (2.91%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.58%) 802.1X
1 1 (0.58%) Middleware
1 1 (0.58%) OAuth
1 1 (0.58%) React
1 1 (0.58%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.58%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (27.91%) SCADA
2 39 (22.67%) Management Information System
3 30 (17.44%) FMCG
4 24 (13.95%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 18 (10.47%) IoT
6 15 (8.72%) Data Centre
7 8 (4.65%) Security Posture
8 7 (4.07%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (2.91%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 5 (2.91%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (2.33%) Life Science
11 4 (2.33%) NHS
12 3 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
13 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
13 2 (1.16%) Driving Licence
13 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
13 2 (1.16%) Self-Driving Car
13 2 (1.16%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.53%) Windows
2 13 (7.56%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.81%) Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (45.35%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (20.35%) Mentoring
4 31 (18.02%) Computer Science
4 31 (18.02%) Risk Management
5 30 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (16.28%) Budgeting
7 24 (13.95%) Data Collection
7 24 (13.95%) Energy Management
7 24 (13.95%) Quality Management
7 24 (13.95%) Validation
8 23 (13.37%) Information Security
9 20 (11.63%) Penetration Testing
10 19 (11.05%) Agile
11 18 (10.47%) Model Validation
11 18 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (10.47%) Test Automation
12 17 (9.88%) TOGAF
13 16 (9.30%) Roadmaps
14 15 (8.72%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.91%) Python
1 5 (2.91%) SQL
2 4 (2.33%) C#
3 3 (1.74%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.58%) Scala
4 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (23.26%) Degree
2 24 (13.95%) HNC
3 18 (10.47%) ISTQB
4 16 (9.30%) Security Cleared
5 12 (6.98%) TOGAF Certification
6 10 (5.81%) CISSP
7 9 (5.23%) SC Cleared
8 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (3.49%) CBAP
9 6 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.33%) CISA
10 4 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (2.33%) MCSA
10 4 (2.33%) MCSE
11 3 (1.74%) CCNA
11 3 (1.74%) CCNP
12 2 (1.16%) CCDA
12 2 (1.16%) CCDP
12 2 (1.16%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.98%) NIST
3 9 (5.23%) GDPR
4 6 (3.49%) GRC
4 6 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 6 (3.49%) NCSC
5 5 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.16%) COBIT
6 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (1.16%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.58%) COSO
7 1 (0.58%) ITGC
System Software
1 11 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.91%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.65%) Terraform
2 6 (3.49%) FortiGate
3 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.74%) Ansible
4 3 (1.74%) SCCM
5 2 (1.16%) CASB
5 2 (1.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.58%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (16.86%) Siemens
2 28 (16.28%) Rockwell
3 21 (12.21%) Microsoft
4 15 (8.72%) VMware
5 12 (6.98%) Oracle
6 9 (5.23%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.49%) Cisco
8 5 (2.91%) SAP
9 4 (2.33%) Okta
10 3 (1.74%) Aruba
10 3 (1.74%) Extreme Networks
10 3 (1.74%) Meraki
11 2 (1.16%) Aerohive Networks
11 2 (1.16%) Apple
11 2 (1.16%) Dell
11 2 (1.16%) Google
11 2 (1.16%) HP
11 2 (1.16%) Juniper
11 2 (1.16%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.16%) Veeam