Tech Ops Job Trends

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Tech Ops skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 630 596
Rank change year-on-year +108 -34 +230
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 129 81 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 79 42 47
10th Percentile £29,350 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £42,864
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.38%
75th Percentile £76,375 £66,875 £68,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £119,905 £102,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.32% +13.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Tech Ops 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 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Tech Ops job vacancy trend in the UK

Tech Ops
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tech Ops.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tech Ops within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 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 +102 97 £50,000 +1.94% 70
UK excluding London +109 86 £52,500 +10.53% 52
Work from Home +82 31 £61,250 +26.39% 17
London +21 31 £62,500 -9.09% 22
South East +41 26 £38,500 -9.41% 16
North of England +34 19 £50,000 +27.39% 13
Yorkshire +1 11 £155,000 - 3
East of England - 11 £30,000 - 7
Midlands +25 10 £29,500 -41.00% 9
Scotland +11 9 £75,859 +40.48%
North West +29 7 £47,500 +21.02% 10
South West +11 6 £50,000 +33.33% 9
Wales +11 6 £85,000 +30.77%
Northern Ireland - 6 £77,217 -
West Midlands +17 5 £80,000 +60.00% 5
East Midlands - 5 £29,500 - 4
North East - 1 £77,217 - 1

Tech Ops
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 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.33%) Confluence
2 3 (2.33%) HCL Domino
2 3 (2.33%) HCL Notes
3 2 (1.55%) CICS
3 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.55%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (11.63%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (8.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.55%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.93%) Azure
2 22 (17.05%) AWS
3 21 (16.28%) SaaS
4 16 (12.40%) GCP
5 14 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (10.08%) PaaS
7 6 (4.65%) IaaS
7 6 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.33%) Smartsheet
10 2 (1.55%) Algolia
10 2 (1.55%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (1.55%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.55%) Firebase
10 2 (1.55%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.55%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.55%) Sentry
10 2 (1.55%) Serverless
10 2 (1.55%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.08%) Wireless
2 10 (7.75%) Firewall
3 9 (6.98%) WAN
4 8 (6.20%) DNS
5 6 (4.65%) VLAN
5 6 (4.65%) VPN
6 4 (3.10%) LAN
6 4 (3.10%) SSL
7 3 (2.33%) BGP
7 3 (2.33%) DHCP
7 3 (2.33%) MPLS
7 3 (2.33%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.55%) NAS
8 2 (1.55%) SAN
8 2 (1.55%) VoIP
9 1 (0.78%) Broadband
9 1 (0.78%) FTP
9 1 (0.78%) Intranet
9 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.55%) BigQuery
1 2 (1.55%) DB2
1 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
1 2 (1.55%) Power BI
2 1 (0.78%) GIS
2 1 (0.78%) Metadata
2 1 (0.78%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 10 (7.75%) JIRA
2 2 (1.55%) Git
2 2 (1.55%) Storybook
3 1 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.83%) Finance
3 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.20%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.65%) Advertising
5 6 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (4.65%) Retail
6 3 (2.33%) Billing
6 3 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.33%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.55%) Aviation
7 2 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Legal
7 2 (1.55%) Marketing
7 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Environmental Health
8 1 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (10.08%) Analyst
1 13 (10.08%) IT Manager
2 10 (7.75%) Lead
3 9 (6.98%) Service Manager
3 9 (6.98%) Support Analyst
3 9 (6.98%) Support Engineer
3 9 (6.98%) Support Supervisor
3 9 (6.98%) Technical Support
3 9 (6.98%) Technical Support Supervisor
4 8 (6.20%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (6.20%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 8 (6.20%) Operations Engineer
4 8 (6.20%) Technical Engineer
4 8 (6.20%) Technical Manager
4 8 (6.20%) Technical Operations Engineer
5 7 (5.43%) Lead Product Manager
5 7 (5.43%) Operations Manager
5 7 (5.43%) Product Manager
6 6 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.10%) EDI
2 3 (2.33%) OAuth
3 2 (1.55%) .NET
3 2 (1.55%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.55%) CSS
3 2 (1.55%) CSS3
3 2 (1.55%) Express.js
3 2 (1.55%) HTML
3 2 (1.55%) HTML5
3 2 (1.55%) Jest
3 2 (1.55%) JWT
3 2 (1.55%) Node.js
3 2 (1.55%) RESTful
3 2 (1.55%) RxJS
3 2 (1.55%) Sass
3 2 (1.55%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.78%) OpenID
4 1 (0.78%) REST
4 1 (0.78%) SAML
4 1 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.08%) Cloud Native
1 13 (10.08%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.20%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.20%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.65%) Hedge funds
4 6 (4.65%) Security Posture
5 5 (3.88%) iSeries
6 4 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.10%) Digital Media
6 4 (3.10%) IoT
6 4 (3.10%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.33%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.55%) CCTV
8 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.55%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.78%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.63%) Windows
2 7 (5.43%) Unix
3 6 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.10%) Linux
5 2 (1.55%) Android
5 2 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.55%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.78%) CentOS
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (20.93%) ITIL
3 27 (20.93%) Roadmaps
4 25 (19.38%) DevOps
5 24 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
5 24 (18.60%) Service Delivery
6 21 (16.28%) Agile
7 18 (13.95%) Problem Management
7 18 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (13.18%) Service Management
9 16 (12.40%) ITSM
10 15 (11.63%) Computer Science
11 13 (10.08%) Data Protection
11 13 (10.08%) IT Strategy
11 13 (10.08%) Product Roadmap
11 13 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
12 12 (9.30%) Decision-Making
12 12 (9.30%) Project Delivery
13 11 (8.53%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 16 (12.40%) Python
2 10 (7.75%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.75%) SQL
3 8 (6.20%) Bash
4 2 (1.55%) C#
4 2 (1.55%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.55%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.78%) ABAP
5 1 (0.78%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (15.50%) Degree
2 11 (8.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.75%) CISSP
4 9 (6.98%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (4.65%) CCSK
5 6 (4.65%) DBS Check
5 6 (4.65%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.88%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.10%) CEH
7 4 (3.10%) CISM
8 2 (1.55%) CCNP
8 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.78%) CCIE
9 1 (0.78%) CCNA
9 1 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.78%) HND
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.65%) GDPR
3 5 (3.88%) NIST
3 5 (3.88%) QA
4 4 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.10%) PMO
4 4 (3.10%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.33%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.55%) GRC
6 2 (1.55%) SLA
6 2 (1.55%) WCAG
7 1 (0.78%) COBIT
7 1 (0.78%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.55%) RACF
4 1 (0.78%) Docker
4 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (10.85%) Terraform
2 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.65%) Grafana
4 5 (3.88%) Ansible
4 5 (3.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.55%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.55%) SCCM
5 2 (1.55%) SmoothWall
6 1 (0.78%) Control-M
6 1 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.78%) Kibana
6 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (24.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.40%) Google
3 9 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.43%) Splunk
5 6 (4.65%) SAP
6 5 (3.88%) IBM
7 4 (3.10%) Fortinet
7 4 (3.10%) SolarWinds
7 4 (3.10%) VMware
8 3 (2.33%) Adobe
8 3 (2.33%) F5
8 3 (2.33%) Lotus
8 3 (2.33%) Polycom
9 2 (1.55%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.55%) Cisco
9 2 (1.55%) SendGrid
10 1 (0.78%) Apple
10 1 (0.78%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.78%) Salesforce