Tech Ops Jobs

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Tech Ops skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Tech Ops 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 583 761 874
Rank change year-on-year +178 +113 -91
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 357 187 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.20% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.21% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 148 122 186
10th Percentile £36,903 £28,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,227 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,036 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year +5.70% -3.81% +3.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £86,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,125 £112,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,935 £49,750
% change year-on-year +2.18% -1.64% +10.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Tech Ops 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%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops.

Salary trend for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Top 16 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 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 +116 289 £50,000 +2.18% 46
England +53 187 £55,000 +4.76% 75
Scotland +72 159 £60,000 - 3
Work from Home +75 85 £55,000 -22.81% 21
London +130 60 £60,000 +11.63% 33
South East -12 41 £61,250 -5.77% 15
Midlands +15 38 £70,000 +57.18% 3
West Midlands +14 35 £70,000 +100.00% 1
North of England +41 31 £48,000 +3.68% 10
North West +11 19 £50,000 -30.95% 6
South West -49 13 £55,000 +27.91% 6
North East -3 10 £46,382 +0.18% 1
Wales +12 4 £65,000 +13.04% 1
East of England -3 3 £35,000 -34.88% 11
East Midlands -18 3 £35,000 -50.70% 2
Yorkshire +49 2 £42,000 +60.00% 4

Tech Ops
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 81 (22.69%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.04%) FileNet
3 17 (4.76%) Cloud Foundry
4 9 (2.52%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.40%) CMS
5 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.12%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.84%) IIS
8 2 (0.56%) Apache
9 1 (0.28%) Moodle
9 1 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.40%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 94 (26.33%) AWS
2 80 (22.41%) Azure
3 31 (8.68%) GCP
4 22 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (5.32%) Amazon S3
6 9 (2.52%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.68%) IaaS
8 6 (1.68%) PaaS
9 4 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.84%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.56%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.56%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.28%) Boomi
12 1 (0.28%) Serverless
12 1 (0.28%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.44%) Firewall
2 17 (4.76%) Kerberos
3 9 (2.52%) Network Security
4 8 (2.24%) HTTP
4 8 (2.24%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.68%) VSAN
6 5 (1.40%) DNS
6 5 (1.40%) WebEx
7 3 (0.84%) DHCP
7 3 (0.84%) SSH
7 3 (0.84%) Telnet
7 3 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.56%) Internet
8 2 (0.56%) NGFW
8 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.56%) VLAN
8 2 (0.56%) VPN
8 2 (0.56%) WAN
9 1 (0.28%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (19.33%) NoSQL
2 49 (13.73%) Big Data
3 21 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (5.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 17 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (4.76%) CockroachDB
6 10 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.40%) InfluxDB
8 5 (1.40%) MaxDB
8 5 (1.40%) SAP HANA
9 4 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.12%) MySQL
10 3 (0.84%) GIS
10 3 (0.84%) Power BI
11 2 (0.56%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.28%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.04%) JUnit
2 7 (1.96%) Git
3 5 (1.40%) JIRA
4 4 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.12%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 211 (59.10%) Finance
2 183 (51.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 159 (44.54%) Law
4 143 (40.06%) Marketing
5 73 (20.45%) Influencing Skills
6 52 (14.57%) Social Skills
7 51 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (3.92%) Banking
9 13 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (3.36%) Investment Banking
11 11 (3.08%) Police
11 11 (3.08%) Public Sector
12 8 (2.24%) Legal
12 8 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.68%) Games
13 6 (1.68%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.40%) Multimedia
15 4 (1.12%) Military
16 3 (0.84%) Retail
16 3 (0.84%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 195 (54.62%) Lead
2 177 (49.58%) Senior
3 153 (42.86%) Software Engineer
4 150 (42.02%) Lead Software Engineer
4 150 (42.02%) Senior Software Engineer
5 76 (21.29%) Java Engineer
5 76 (21.29%) Java Software Engineer
5 76 (21.29%) Lead Java Engineer
5 76 (21.29%) Senior Java Engineer
5 76 (21.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 49 (13.73%) Big Data Engineer
6 49 (13.73%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 49 (13.73%) Lead Big Data Engineer
6 49 (13.73%) Scala Engineer
6 49 (13.73%) Scala Software Engineer
6 49 (13.73%) Senior Big Data Engineer
6 49 (13.73%) Senior Scala Engineer
6 49 (13.73%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
7 45 (12.61%) Java Scala Software Engineer
8 32 (8.96%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.36%) Kafka
1 37 (10.36%) Spring
2 35 (9.80%) GraphQL
2 35 (9.80%) HTML
3 32 (8.96%) PySpark
4 21 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 21 (5.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 18 (5.04%) CSS
5 18 (5.04%) Hibernate
5 18 (5.04%) J2EE
5 18 (5.04%) JMS
5 18 (5.04%) jQuery
5 18 (5.04%) JSON
5 18 (5.04%) Node.js
5 18 (5.04%) React
5 18 (5.04%) Spring Integration
6 17 (4.76%) OAuth
6 17 (4.76%) REST
7 8 (2.24%) .NET
8 5 (1.40%) BREW
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.57%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.12%) Public Cloud
3 23 (6.44%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.60%) Management Information System
5 19 (5.32%) Cyberattack
6 17 (4.76%) Data Centre
7 13 (3.64%) Biopharmaceutical
8 12 (3.36%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.40%) CMDB
11 5 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.12%) PKI
12 4 (1.12%) Tandem
13 3 (0.84%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.84%) Housing Association
14 2 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
14 2 (0.56%) Reinsurance
14 2 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.76%) Windows
2 28 (7.84%) Linux
3 22 (6.16%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.12%) Android
7 2 (0.56%) Debian
7 2 (0.56%) Unix
8 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Solaris
8 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (59.38%) Problem-Solving
2 193 (54.06%) Agile
3 164 (45.94%) Software Engineering
4 160 (44.82%) SDLC
5 156 (43.70%) Operational Stability
6 134 (37.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 134 (37.54%) Machine Learning
7 121 (33.89%) Decision-Making
8 57 (15.97%) Microservices
9 54 (15.13%) Performance Tuning
10 49 (13.73%) ITIL
11 45 (12.61%) Computer Science
12 40 (11.20%) Customer Service
13 37 (10.36%) CI/CD
14 36 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (10.08%) ETL
14 36 (10.08%) Mathematics
15 34 (9.52%) Roadmaps
16 33 (9.24%) Quality Management
17 32 (8.96%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 153 (42.86%) Java
2 89 (24.93%) SQL
3 63 (17.65%) Python
4 49 (13.73%) Scala
5 21 (5.88%) C#
5 21 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.04%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.40%) ABAP
9 4 (1.12%) C
10 2 (0.56%) Bash
10 2 (0.56%) C++
10 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.28%) Go
11 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 35 (9.80%) Degree
2 26 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.00%) DV Cleared
4 16 (4.48%) CISSP
5 15 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.36%) SC Cleared
7 9 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.24%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.96%) A+ Certification
9 7 (1.96%) CCNA
9 7 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.40%) HNC
10 5 (1.40%) MCSA
11 4 (1.12%) CCNP
11 4 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.12%) HND
11 4 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.84%) MCITP
13 1 (0.28%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.28%) QA
3 10 (2.80%) SLA
4 7 (1.96%) GxP
4 7 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.68%) PMO
6 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.12%) GDPR
8 3 (0.84%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.56%) GRC
9 2 (0.56%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.28%) NCSC
10 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 30 (8.40%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.68%) vSphere
4 5 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.28%) Docker
7 1 (0.28%) NFS
Systems Management
1 45 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.40%) Terraform
3 8 (2.24%) Puppet
4 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.68%) SCCM
6 5 (1.40%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) Ansible
7 1 (0.28%) Autotask
7 1 (0.28%) Cacti
7 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.28%) Icinga
7 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.44%) ServiceNow
3 20 (5.60%) Cisco
3 20 (5.60%) Oracle
4 17 (4.76%) Google
5 12 (3.36%) SAP
5 12 (3.36%) VMware
6 7 (1.96%) Dell
7 5 (1.40%) Meraki
7 5 (1.40%) Sybase
8 4 (1.12%) Databricks
8 4 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.12%) HP
8 4 (1.12%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.12%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.84%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.84%) Sophos
10 2 (0.56%) Adobe
10 2 (0.56%) Citrix
10 2 (0.56%) Mitel