Target Operating Model Job Trends

Target Operating Model (TOM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Target Operating Model skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 572 684
Rank change year-on-year -66 +112 -44
Permanent jobs citing Target Operating Model 134 115 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.26% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 68 51 105
10th Percentile £59,100 £57,000 £46,713
25th Percentile £68,781 £65,435 £55,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +16.79% +5.38%
75th Percentile £97,500 £113,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,750 £120,000 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £68,750 £58,700
% change year-on-year +12.73% +17.12% -1.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Target Operating Model 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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Target Operating Model
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Target Operating Model relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Target Operating Model job vacancy trend in the UK

Target Operating Model
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Target Operating Model.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Target Operating Model

Target Operating Model
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Target Operating Model over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Target Operating Model in the UK

Target Operating Model
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Target Operating Model within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -68 127 £82,500 +3.13% 67
London -19 91 £82,500 -2.94% 45
UK excluding London -79 35 £77,500 +12.73% 37
North of England -15 29 £85,000 +28.08% 6
North West +18 26 £80,000 +20.54% 2
Work from Home -22 18 £70,000 -6.67% 34
South West -64 3 £70,000 +64.71% 3
West Midlands -22 2 - - 5
Midlands -41 2 - - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £85,000 - 3
East of England - 1 £57,500 - 2
North East - 1 - - 1

Target Operating Model
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 5 (3.73%) Confluence
2 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.24%) NEC Housing
2 3 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.75%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.45%) Power Automate
1 14 (10.45%) Power Platform
2 12 (8.96%) PowerApps
3 8 (5.97%) Azure
3 8 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (5.97%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.73%) Boomi
5 3 (2.24%) AWS
5 3 (2.24%) SaaS
6 2 (1.49%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.49%) GCP
6 2 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.75%) Figma
7 1 (0.75%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.75%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.96%) Power BI
2 1 (0.75%) Big Data
2 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (5.97%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) Balsamiq
General
1 94 (70.15%) Finance
2 62 (46.27%) Social Skills
3 39 (29.10%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (26.12%) Retail
5 34 (25.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (22.39%) Banking
7 28 (20.90%) Local Government
8 22 (16.42%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (8.96%) Public Sector
10 8 (5.97%) Law
11 7 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.49%) Games
12 2 (1.49%) Legal
12 2 (1.49%) Marketing
12 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.49%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.75%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (22.39%) Analyst
1 30 (22.39%) Consultant
2 28 (20.90%) Senior
3 25 (18.66%) Business Analyst
4 21 (15.67%) Architect
5 18 (13.43%) Lead
5 18 (13.43%) Senior Consultant
6 15 (11.19%) Business Architect
7 9 (6.72%) Business Manager
7 9 (6.72%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (6.72%) Senior Business Analyst
8 6 (4.48%) Business Consultant
8 6 (4.48%) Insurance Business Analyst
9 5 (3.73%) Senior Architect
9 5 (3.73%) Senior Business Consultant
10 4 (2.99%) Transformation Consultant
10 4 (2.99%) Transformation Manager
11 3 (2.24%) Applications Support Analyst
11 3 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.24%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.73%) Middleware
1 5 (3.73%) REST
2 2 (1.49%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.75%) .NET
3 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.75%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.90%) Security Posture
2 7 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.73%) Housing Association
4 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.24%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.49%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.75%) CMDB
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.75%) FMCG
7 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.75%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.75%) PMI
7 1 (0.75%) Robotics
7 1 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Windows
1 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.34%) Mentoring
2 36 (26.87%) Risk Management
3 35 (26.12%) Project Management
4 34 (25.37%) Roadmaps
5 33 (24.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (23.88%) Business Development
7 31 (23.13%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (23.13%) Workshop Facilitation
8 29 (21.64%) Business Analysis
9 28 (20.90%) Information Security
10 25 (18.66%) Agile
11 24 (17.91%) Strategic Thinking
12 22 (16.42%) AI
12 22 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (15.67%) Thought Leadership
14 20 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 18 (13.43%) Project Planning
16 17 (12.69%) Decision-Making
16 17 (12.69%) User Acceptance Testing
17 16 (11.94%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.46%) SQL
2 1 (0.75%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (20.90%) CISM
1 28 (20.90%) CISSP
2 25 (18.66%) Degree
3 21 (15.67%) Master's Degree
4 16 (11.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 16 (11.94%) CCSP
4 16 (11.94%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (8.96%) CRISC
5 12 (8.96%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.48%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.49%) CSPO
8 1 (0.75%) ACCA
8 1 (0.75%) APMG
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) CIMA
8 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) MBA
8 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (22.39%) QA
2 29 (21.64%) NIST
3 28 (20.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (8.96%) GRC
4 12 (8.96%) PMO
5 11 (8.21%) NIST 800
6 5 (3.73%) TickIT
7 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
8 3 (2.24%) SLA
9 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.75%) NCSC
10 1 (0.75%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.49%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 25 (18.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.22%) Intapp
2 7 (5.22%) ServiceNow
3 6 (4.48%) Okta
4 5 (3.73%) SAP
5 3 (2.24%) NEC
5 3 (2.24%) Oracle
5 3 (2.24%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.49%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (1.49%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (1.49%) Cognizant
6 2 (1.49%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.49%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.49%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.49%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.49%) UiPath
6 2 (1.49%) Workday
7 1 (0.75%) Aderant
7 1 (0.75%) Concur
7 1 (0.75%) CrowdStrike