Operational Stability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Operational Stability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Stability over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 963 1093
Rank change year-on-year +814 +130 -228
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 1,962 30 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.99% 0.029% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 0.030% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 51 16 34
10th Percentile £35,920 £40,375 £36,975
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,188 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -17.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £67,968 £75,938 £82,813
90th Percentile £155,665 £83,125 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £77,500 £45,488
% change year-on-year -18.99% +70.37% -15.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Operational Stability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Top 14 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 3 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +659 1,944 £62,783 -18.99% 5
Scotland - 1,881 £65,000 - 1
England +145 81 £62,783 -5.23% 14
Work from Home +125 45 £62,783 +0.45% 5
North of England +81 32 £62,783 -10.31% 1
South West - 20 £149,601 -
London +129 18 £149,601 +184.95% 10
Yorkshire +91 13 £62,783 -10.31%
North West +17 11 £62,783 -10.31%
Midlands +19 8 £48,750 -39.06%
North East - 8 £62,783 - 1
West Midlands +20 6 £61,125 -23.59%
South East +7 3 - - 3
East Midlands - 2 £37,500 -

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
1 498 (25.38%) Apache Spark
2 117 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (5.91%) Apache
4 53 (2.70%) FileNet
5 21 (1.07%) GemFire
6 20 (1.02%) Camunda
7 17 (0.87%) Cloud Foundry
8 11 (0.56%) CICS
9 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.25%) Confluence
10 5 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.10%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.051%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 1 (0.051%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 1,061 (54.08%) AWS
2 146 (7.44%) Azure
3 114 (5.81%) GCP
4 99 (5.05%) Datadog
5 70 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 54 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
7 53 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 53 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 52 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (2.65%) Serverless
9 51 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
9 51 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
9 51 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
10 43 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
11 42 (2.14%) BlazeMeter
12 25 (1.27%) Google Play
13 8 (0.41%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.36%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (0.36%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (0.31%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.18%) Kerberos
2 18 (0.92%) DSL
3 2 (0.10%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 511 (26.04%) NoSQL
2 403 (20.54%) Big Data
3 196 (9.99%) Hadoop
4 131 (6.68%) Apache Hive
5 107 (5.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 102 (5.20%) HBase
7 96 (4.89%) Relational Database
8 93 (4.74%) MongoDB
9 87 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
10 67 (3.41%) Data Lake
11 65 (3.31%) Metadata
12 51 (2.60%) Electronic Patient Records
13 39 (1.99%) Qlik Sense
14 38 (1.94%) CockroachDB
15 29 (1.48%) DB2
16 23 (1.17%) Tableau
17 21 (1.07%) Hazelcast
18 20 (1.02%) Looker
19 17 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
20 16 (0.82%) Flink
Development Applications
1 201 (10.24%) Jenkins
2 174 (8.87%) Git
3 159 (8.10%) JUnit
4 86 (4.38%) Artifactory
4 86 (4.38%) Bitbucket Server
5 70 (3.57%) Cypress.io
6 65 (3.31%) Bitbucket
7 61 (3.11%) Selenium
8 60 (3.06%) Jasmine
8 60 (3.06%) Karma Test Runner
8 60 (3.06%) Protractor
8 60 (3.06%) WebDriver
9 49 (2.50%) Maven
10 33 (1.68%) GitLab
11 30 (1.53%) Gradle
12 28 (1.43%) JMeter
13 25 (1.27%) Android Studio
14 21 (1.07%) Jaeger
15 20 (1.02%) CircleCI
15 20 (1.02%) Travis CI
General
1 1,928 (98.27%) Finance
2 1,907 (97.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,906 (97.15%) Law
4 987 (50.31%) Marketing
5 528 (26.91%) Legal
6 375 (19.11%) Banking
7 301 (15.34%) Investment Banking
8 131 (6.68%) Influencing Skills
9 111 (5.66%) Social Skills
10 82 (4.18%) Financial Institution
11 70 (3.57%) Private Banking
12 41 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
13 33 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
14 27 (1.38%) Games
15 22 (1.12%) Prime Brokerage
16 21 (1.07%) Public Sector
17 18 (0.92%) Front Office
18 3 (0.15%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1,791 (91.28%) Software Engineer
2 686 (34.96%) Java Engineer
2 686 (34.96%) Java Software Engineer
2 686 (34.96%) Lead
3 676 (34.45%) Lead Software Engineer
4 347 (17.69%) Big Data Engineer
4 347 (17.69%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 331 (16.87%) Python Engineer
5 331 (16.87%) Python Software Engineer
6 298 (15.19%) AWS Engineer
6 298 (15.19%) AWS Software Engineer
7 284 (14.48%) Full Stack Engineer
7 284 (14.48%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 264 (13.46%) Lead Java Engineer
9 248 (12.64%) Senior
10 228 (11.62%) Scala Engineer
10 228 (11.62%) Scala Software Engineer
11 201 (10.24%) Senior Software Engineer
12 198 (10.09%) Data Engineer
13 148 (7.54%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 483 (24.62%) Spring
2 375 (19.11%) React
3 304 (15.49%) AngularJS
4 291 (14.83%) Kafka
5 202 (10.30%) JSON
6 201 (10.24%) J2EE
7 200 (10.19%) Spring Boot
8 190 (9.68%) CSS
8 190 (9.68%) HTML
9 174 (8.87%) PySpark
10 171 (8.72%) JMS
11 149 (7.59%) Hibernate
12 147 (7.49%) Node.js
13 141 (7.19%) Web Services
14 139 (7.08%) jQuery
15 132 (6.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 131 (6.68%) RESTful
17 109 (5.56%) XML
18 97 (4.94%) REST
19 94 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 679 (34.61%) Algorithms
2 616 (31.40%) Cloud Native
3 276 (14.07%) Public Cloud
4 124 (6.32%) Management Information System
4 124 (6.32%) Onboarding
4 124 (6.32%) Reference Data
5 98 (4.99%) Data Structures
6 70 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 65 (3.31%) Enterprise Cloud
8 51 (2.60%) Credit Risk
9 30 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 27 (1.38%) Market Risk
10 27 (1.38%) Private Cloud
11 21 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 21 (1.07%) Replication
12 11 (0.56%) Mainframe
12 11 (0.56%) VSAM
13 10 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.41%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 125 (6.37%) Unix
2 75 (3.82%) Linux
3 31 (1.58%) Android
4 25 (1.27%) Windows
5 6 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,893 (96.48%) Software Engineering
2 1,816 (92.56%) Agile
3 1,767 (90.06%) SDLC
4 1,607 (81.91%) CI/CD
5 1,256 (64.02%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,231 (62.74%) Community of Practice
7 1,228 (62.59%) Machine Learning
8 703 (35.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 697 (35.52%) Visualisation
10 568 (28.95%) Risk Management
11 460 (23.45%) Decision-Making
12 417 (21.25%) Architectural Design
13 399 (20.34%) Information Architecture
14 371 (18.91%) Microservices
15 363 (18.50%) Continuous Delivery
16 302 (15.39%) Full Stack Development
17 273 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
18 234 (11.93%) Test Automation
19 203 (10.35%) TDD
20 189 (9.63%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,311 (66.82%) Java
2 774 (39.45%) Python
3 769 (39.19%) SQL
4 276 (14.07%) Scala
5 268 (13.66%) JavaScript
6 201 (10.24%) TypeScript
7 111 (5.66%) PL/SQL
8 92 (4.69%) Go
9 65 (3.31%) Prolog
9 65 (3.31%) SPARQL
10 39 (1.99%) Kotlin
11 33 (1.68%) C#
12 22 (1.12%) Groovy
13 20 (1.02%) Ruby
14 11 (0.56%) COBOL
14 11 (0.56%) JCL
15 7 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.31%) Swift
17 2 (0.10%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (1.53%) Degree
2 24 (1.22%) AWS Certification
3 8 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.15%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (0.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.31%) SLA
2 52 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.73%) Data Quality
4 20 (1.02%) PMO
5 12 (0.61%) NIST
6 9 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 102 (5.20%) HDFS
2 67 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.89%) Docker
4 11 (0.56%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 259 (13.20%) Terraform
2 234 (11.93%) Kubernetes
3 147 (7.49%) Grafana
4 61 (3.11%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.07%) Ansible
5 21 (1.07%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.07%) Kibana
5 21 (1.07%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.36%) Graphite
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 268 (13.66%) Oracle
2 242 (12.33%) Databricks
3 156 (7.95%) Splunk
4 141 (7.19%) Dynatrace
5 87 (4.43%) Informatica
6 72 (3.67%) Cloudera
7 57 (2.91%) Alteryx
8 49 (2.50%) Google
9 20 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 20 (1.02%) Pega
10 18 (0.92%) Cognos
10 18 (0.92%) Microsoft
10 18 (0.92%) SaltStack
10 18 (0.92%) Sybase
11 9 (0.46%) TOWER Software
12 6 (0.31%) Amplitude
12 6 (0.31%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.31%) Teradata
13 2 (0.10%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.10%) VMware