Operational Stability Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 927 1096
Rank change year-on-year +771 +169 -207
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 1,904 20 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 0.021% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 0.022% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 54 15 35
10th Percentile £35,920 £41,100 £37,050
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £67,968 £75,625 £83,750
90th Percentile £133,716 £83,250 £86,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £78,750 £45,488
% change year-on-year -20.28% +73.12% -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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +627 1,878 £62,783 -20.28% 12
Scotland - 1,813 £65,000 - 8
England +109 91 £62,783 -3.41% 9
Work from Home +81 46 £62,783 -3.41% 7
North of England +64 32 £62,783 -10.31% 1
London +128 26 £80,000 +28.00% 4
South West - 20 £149,601 -
Yorkshire - 13 £62,783 -
North West +6 11 £62,783 -10.31% 1
Midlands -7 9 £37,500 -53.13%
North East - 8 £62,783 -
West Midlands -11 6 £61,125 -23.59%
South East - 4 - - 3
East Midlands - 3 £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
1 477 (25.05%) Apache Spark
2 114 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
3 112 (5.88%) Apache
4 53 (2.78%) FileNet
5 21 (1.10%) GemFire
6 18 (0.95%) Camunda
7 17 (0.89%) Cloud Foundry
8 11 (0.58%) CICS
9 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.26%) Confluence
10 5 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.11%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.053%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 1 (0.053%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (53.31%) AWS
2 142 (7.46%) Azure
3 111 (5.83%) GCP
4 98 (5.15%) Datadog
5 66 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
6 53 (2.78%) Amazon S3
7 52 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 52 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
8 50 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 50 (2.63%) Serverless
9 49 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
9 49 (2.57%) Amazon EMR
9 49 (2.57%) Amazon SQS
10 42 (2.21%) BlazeMeter
11 41 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (1.31%) Google Play
13 8 (0.42%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.37%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (0.37%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (0.32%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.31%) Kerberos
2 16 (0.84%) DSL
3 2 (0.11%) DHCP
3 2 (0.11%) DNS
3 2 (0.11%) SMTP
4 1 (0.053%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 494 (25.95%) NoSQL
2 380 (19.96%) Big Data
3 186 (9.77%) Hadoop
4 123 (6.46%) Apache Hive
5 107 (5.62%) Apache Cassandra
6 98 (5.15%) HBase
7 89 (4.67%) Relational Database
8 86 (4.52%) MongoDB
9 83 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
10 65 (3.41%) Data Lake
10 65 (3.41%) Metadata
11 49 (2.57%) Electronic Patient Records
12 39 (2.05%) Qlik Sense
13 38 (2.00%) CockroachDB
14 27 (1.42%) DB2
15 21 (1.10%) Hazelcast
15 21 (1.10%) Tableau
16 18 (0.95%) Looker
17 17 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
18 16 (0.84%) Flink
Development Applications
1 195 (10.24%) Jenkins
2 171 (8.98%) Git
3 159 (8.35%) JUnit
4 86 (4.52%) Artifactory
5 84 (4.41%) Bitbucket Server
6 70 (3.68%) Cypress.io
7 65 (3.41%) Bitbucket
8 61 (3.20%) Selenium
9 60 (3.15%) Jasmine
9 60 (3.15%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (3.15%) Protractor
9 60 (3.15%) WebDriver
10 47 (2.47%) Maven
11 33 (1.73%) GitLab
12 28 (1.47%) Gradle
12 28 (1.47%) JMeter
13 25 (1.31%) Android Studio
14 21 (1.10%) Jaeger
15 18 (0.95%) CircleCI
15 18 (0.95%) Travis CI
General
1 1,867 (98.06%) Finance
2 1,844 (96.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,843 (96.80%) Law
4 944 (49.58%) Marketing
5 517 (27.15%) Legal
6 361 (18.96%) Banking
7 293 (15.39%) Investment Banking
8 125 (6.57%) Influencing Skills
9 110 (5.78%) Social Skills
10 76 (3.99%) Financial Institution
11 64 (3.36%) Private Banking
12 39 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
14 27 (1.42%) Games
15 22 (1.16%) Prime Brokerage
16 21 (1.10%) Public Sector
17 18 (0.95%) Front Office
18 3 (0.16%) Aviation
19 1 (0.053%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,730 (90.86%) Software Engineer
2 665 (34.93%) Lead
3 664 (34.87%) Java Engineer
3 664 (34.87%) Java Software Engineer
4 655 (34.40%) Lead Software Engineer
5 331 (17.38%) Big Data Engineer
5 331 (17.38%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 322 (16.91%) Python Engineer
6 322 (16.91%) Python Software Engineer
7 286 (15.02%) AWS Engineer
7 286 (15.02%) AWS Software Engineer
8 269 (14.13%) Full Stack Engineer
8 269 (14.13%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 256 (13.45%) Lead Java Engineer
10 241 (12.66%) Senior
11 220 (11.55%) Scala Engineer
11 220 (11.55%) Scala Software Engineer
12 194 (10.19%) Senior Software Engineer
13 188 (9.87%) Data Engineer
14 144 (7.56%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (24.53%) Spring
2 362 (19.01%) React
3 290 (15.23%) AngularJS
4 283 (14.86%) Kafka
5 202 (10.61%) JSON
6 197 (10.35%) J2EE
7 188 (9.87%) Spring Boot
8 185 (9.72%) CSS
8 185 (9.72%) HTML
9 171 (8.98%) PySpark
10 170 (8.93%) JMS
11 147 (7.72%) Hibernate
11 147 (7.72%) Node.js
12 138 (7.25%) jQuery
12 138 (7.25%) Web Services
13 132 (6.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 127 (6.67%) RESTful
15 108 (5.67%) XML
16 93 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
16 93 (4.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 662 (34.77%) Algorithms
2 600 (31.51%) Cloud Native
3 255 (13.39%) Public Cloud
4 121 (6.36%) Onboarding
5 120 (6.30%) Management Information System
5 120 (6.30%) Reference Data
6 96 (5.04%) Data Structures
7 66 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 65 (3.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 51 (2.68%) Credit Risk
10 30 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
11 27 (1.42%) Market Risk
12 25 (1.31%) Private Cloud
13 21 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
13 21 (1.10%) Replication
14 11 (0.58%) Mainframe
14 11 (0.58%) VSAM
15 10 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (0.42%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 122 (6.41%) Unix
2 76 (3.99%) Linux
3 31 (1.63%) Android
4 29 (1.52%) Windows
5 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,830 (96.11%) Software Engineering
2 1,753 (92.07%) Agile
3 1,704 (89.50%) SDLC
4 1,558 (81.83%) CI/CD
5 1,219 (64.02%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,202 (63.13%) Community of Practice
7 1,190 (62.50%) Machine Learning
8 687 (36.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 678 (35.61%) Visualisation
10 555 (29.15%) Risk Management
11 437 (22.95%) Decision-Making
12 405 (21.27%) Architectural Design
13 387 (20.33%) Information Architecture
14 360 (18.91%) Microservices
15 350 (18.38%) Continuous Delivery
16 287 (15.07%) Full Stack Development
17 264 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
18 226 (11.87%) Test Automation
19 199 (10.45%) TDD
20 181 (9.51%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,260 (66.18%) Java
2 744 (39.08%) Python
3 736 (38.66%) SQL
4 261 (13.71%) JavaScript
4 261 (13.71%) Scala
5 197 (10.35%) TypeScript
6 106 (5.57%) PL/SQL
7 93 (4.88%) Go
8 65 (3.41%) Prolog
8 65 (3.41%) SPARQL
9 43 (2.26%) Kotlin
10 31 (1.63%) C#
11 22 (1.16%) Groovy
12 19 (1.00%) Ruby
13 11 (0.58%) COBOL
13 11 (0.58%) JCL
14 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.32%) Swift
14 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 29 (1.52%) Degree
2 26 (1.37%) AWS Certification
3 9 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.053%) CCNA
6 1 (0.053%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.053%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (3.10%) SLA
2 48 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 32 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.95%) PMO
5 12 (0.63%) NIST
6 9 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 98 (5.15%) HDFS
2 69 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.73%) Docker
4 11 (0.58%) Time Sharing Option
5 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.053%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 256 (13.45%) Terraform
2 228 (11.97%) Kubernetes
3 146 (7.67%) Grafana
4 60 (3.15%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.10%) Ansible
5 21 (1.10%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.10%) Kibana
5 21 (1.10%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.37%) Graphite
7 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.053%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.053%) Nagios
9 1 (0.053%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.053%) Puppet
Vendors
1 257 (13.50%) Oracle
2 231 (12.13%) Databricks
3 157 (8.25%) Splunk
4 141 (7.41%) Dynatrace
5 85 (4.46%) Informatica
6 68 (3.57%) Cloudera
7 55 (2.89%) Alteryx
8 53 (2.78%) Google
9 22 (1.16%) Microsoft
10 18 (0.95%) Atlassian
10 18 (0.95%) Pega
10 18 (0.95%) SaltStack
11 16 (0.84%) Cognos
11 16 (0.84%) Sybase
12 9 (0.47%) TOWER Software
13 6 (0.32%) Amplitude
13 6 (0.32%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.32%) Teradata
14 5 (0.26%) VMware
15 3 (0.16%) SolarWinds