Operational Technology Jobs in the West Midlands

Operational Technology (OT)
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 200 232
Rank change year-on-year +39 +32 +27
Permanent jobs citing Operational Technology 36 53 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.87% 0.68% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.76% 2.07% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 27 32 8
10th Percentile £46,250 £39,775 £50,949
25th Percentile £63,750 £49,063 £52,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £54,120
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +6.25% -24.83%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £57,101
90th Percentile £83,050 £67,500 £61,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% -7.14%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,306 2,563 2,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.73% 32.80% 46.20%
Number of salaries quoted 652 1,692 967
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Operational Technology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in the West Midlands

Operational Technology
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Operational Technology in the West Midlands

Operational Technology
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Operational Technology in the West Midlands

Operational Technology
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Technology within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Warwickshire +23 20 £67,500 +5.47% 6
Staffordshire -10 7 - - 9
Birmingham +45 3 £77,500 +40.91% 2
Worcestershire - 3 £47,500 - 5
Coventry - 1 £81,500 - 3
Operational Technology
England

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (13.89%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) AWS
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.78%) IaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (2.78%) PaaS
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) Firewall
2 6 (16.67%) VPN
3 3 (8.33%) LAN
3 3 (8.33%) WAN
3 3 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.78%) 5G
4 1 (2.78%) Internet
4 1 (2.78%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (2.78%) Modbus
4 1 (2.78%) MQTT
4 1 (2.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (50.00%) JIRA
1 18 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 8 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.78%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Lead
2 18 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 18 (50.00%) Validation Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Architect
3 2 (5.56%) Consultant
3 2 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) IT Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) IT Manager
3 2 (5.56%) Project Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 1 (2.78%) Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Network Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Security Architect
4 1 (2.78%) Security Consultant
4 1 (2.78%) Security Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Senior Network Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 21 (58.33%) SCADA
2 3 (8.33%) Clustering
2 3 (8.33%) IoT
2 3 (8.33%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (5.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) NB-IoT
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (72.22%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (52.78%) Computer Science
3 18 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 18 (50.00%) Model Validation
3 18 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 18 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 18 (50.00%) Validation
4 5 (13.89%) Information Security
5 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (11.11%) ITIL
6 3 (8.33%) Project Management
6 3 (8.33%) Risk Management
6 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Security
7 2 (5.56%) Contract Management
7 2 (5.56%) Incident Response
7 2 (5.56%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.56%) Security Operations
7 2 (5.56%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (50.00%) Degree
1 18 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) NIST
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.67%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) Apple
3 3 (8.33%) Dell
3 3 (8.33%) HP
3 3 (8.33%) Sophos
3 3 (8.33%) Veeam
4 1 (2.78%) Avaya