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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 936 1103
Rank change year-on-year +778 +167 -206
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 1,873 20 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.75% 0.021% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £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 6 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 6 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 +625 1,847 £62,783 -20.28% 10
Scotland - 1,782 £65,000 - 3
England +110 91 £62,783 -3.41% 11
Work from Home +75 46 £62,783 -3.41% 8
North of England +48 32 £62,783 -10.31% 4
London +108 26 £80,000 +28.00% 4
South West - 20 £149,601 - 1
Yorkshire - 13 £62,783 - 1
North West -2 11 £62,783 -10.31% 2
Midlands -4 9 £37,500 -53.13%
North East - 8 £62,783 - 1
West Midlands -20 6 £61,125 -23.59%
South East - 4 - - 2
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
1 467 (24.93%) Apache Spark
2 113 (6.03%) Apache Airflow
3 109 (5.82%) Apache
4 53 (2.83%) FileNet
5 21 (1.12%) GemFire
6 17 (0.91%) Camunda
6 17 (0.91%) Cloud Foundry
7 11 (0.59%) CICS
8 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.27%) Confluence
9 5 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.11%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.053%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 1 (0.053%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 992 (52.96%) AWS
2 137 (7.31%) Azure
3 106 (5.66%) GCP
4 98 (5.23%) Datadog
5 64 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
6 53 (2.83%) Amazon S3
7 52 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 51 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
9 49 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
9 49 (2.62%) Serverless
10 48 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
10 48 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
10 48 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
11 42 (2.24%) BlazeMeter
12 40 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
13 25 (1.33%) Google Play
14 8 (0.43%) Entra ID
15 7 (0.37%) Amazon Bedrock
15 7 (0.37%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (0.37%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.38%) Kerberos
2 15 (0.80%) 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
1 486 (25.95%) NoSQL
2 371 (19.81%) Big Data
3 182 (9.72%) Hadoop
4 120 (6.41%) Apache Hive
5 107 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
6 96 (5.13%) HBase
7 85 (4.54%) Relational Database
8 83 (4.43%) MongoDB
9 82 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
10 65 (3.47%) Metadata
11 64 (3.42%) Data Lake
12 48 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
13 39 (2.08%) Qlik Sense
14 38 (2.03%) CockroachDB
15 26 (1.39%) DB2
16 21 (1.12%) Hazelcast
17 20 (1.07%) Tableau
18 17 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
18 17 (0.91%) Looker
19 15 (0.80%) Flink
Development Applications
1 192 (10.25%) Jenkins
2 170 (9.08%) Git
3 159 (8.49%) JUnit
4 86 (4.59%) Artifactory
5 83 (4.43%) Bitbucket Server
6 70 (3.74%) Cypress.io
7 65 (3.47%) Bitbucket
8 61 (3.26%) Selenium
9 60 (3.20%) Jasmine
9 60 (3.20%) Karma Test Runner
9 60 (3.20%) Protractor
9 60 (3.20%) WebDriver
10 46 (2.46%) Maven
11 33 (1.76%) GitLab
12 28 (1.49%) JMeter
13 27 (1.44%) Gradle
14 25 (1.33%) Android Studio
15 21 (1.12%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.96%) JIRA
17 17 (0.91%) Travis CI
General
1 1,836 (98.02%) Finance
2 1,813 (96.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,812 (96.74%) Law
4 925 (49.39%) Marketing
5 510 (27.23%) Legal
6 354 (18.90%) Banking
7 289 (15.43%) Investment Banking
8 122 (6.51%) Influencing Skills
9 109 (5.82%) Social Skills
10 73 (3.90%) Financial Institution
11 61 (3.26%) Private Banking
12 38 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
14 27 (1.44%) Games
15 22 (1.17%) Prime Brokerage
16 21 (1.12%) Public Sector
17 18 (0.96%) Front Office
18 3 (0.16%) Aviation
19 1 (0.053%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1,702 (90.87%) Software Engineer
2 653 (34.86%) Lead
3 652 (34.81%) Java Engineer
3 652 (34.81%) Java Software Engineer
4 644 (34.38%) Lead Software Engineer
5 326 (17.41%) Big Data Engineer
5 326 (17.41%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 319 (17.03%) Python Engineer
6 319 (17.03%) Python Software Engineer
7 280 (14.95%) AWS Engineer
7 280 (14.95%) AWS Software Engineer
8 262 (13.99%) Full Stack Engineer
8 262 (13.99%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 253 (13.51%) Lead Java Engineer
10 238 (12.71%) Senior
11 216 (11.53%) Scala Engineer
11 216 (11.53%) Scala Software Engineer
12 191 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
13 186 (9.93%) Data Engineer
14 142 (7.58%) Lead Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 458 (24.45%) Spring
2 355 (18.95%) React
3 283 (15.11%) AngularJS
4 279 (14.90%) Kafka
5 202 (10.78%) JSON
6 195 (10.41%) J2EE
7 183 (9.77%) CSS
7 183 (9.77%) HTML
8 182 (9.72%) Spring Boot
9 170 (9.08%) PySpark
10 169 (9.02%) JMS
11 147 (7.85%) Node.js
12 146 (7.79%) Hibernate
13 138 (7.37%) jQuery
14 136 (7.26%) Web Services
15 132 (7.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 125 (6.67%) RESTful
17 107 (5.71%) XML
18 93 (4.97%) OpenTelemetry
19 90 (4.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 653 (34.86%) Algorithms
2 592 (31.61%) Cloud Native
3 245 (13.08%) Public Cloud
4 118 (6.30%) Management Information System
4 118 (6.30%) Onboarding
4 118 (6.30%) Reference Data
5 95 (5.07%) Data Structures
6 65 (3.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 64 (3.42%) Product Ownership
8 50 (2.67%) Credit Risk
9 30 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
10 27 (1.44%) Market Risk
11 24 (1.28%) Private Cloud
12 21 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 21 (1.12%) Replication
13 11 (0.59%) Mainframe
13 11 (0.59%) VSAM
14 9 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.43%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 120 (6.41%) Unix
2 75 (4.00%) Linux
3 31 (1.66%) Android
4 29 (1.55%) Windows
5 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.21%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,799 (96.05%) Software Engineering
2 1,723 (91.99%) Agile
3 1,676 (89.48%) SDLC
4 1,535 (81.95%) CI/CD
5 1,198 (63.96%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1,185 (63.27%) Community of Practice
7 1,169 (62.41%) Machine Learning
8 677 (36.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 668 (35.66%) Visualisation
10 547 (29.20%) Risk Management
11 427 (22.80%) Decision-Making
12 398 (21.25%) Architectural Design
13 380 (20.29%) Information Architecture
14 354 (18.90%) Microservices
15 344 (18.37%) Continuous Delivery
16 280 (14.95%) Full Stack Development
17 258 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
18 222 (11.85%) Test Automation
19 197 (10.52%) TDD
20 177 (9.45%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,232 (65.78%) Java
2 728 (38.87%) Python
3 720 (38.44%) SQL
4 259 (13.83%) JavaScript
5 256 (13.67%) Scala
6 195 (10.41%) TypeScript
7 104 (5.55%) PL/SQL
8 92 (4.91%) Go
9 65 (3.47%) Prolog
9 65 (3.47%) SPARQL
10 43 (2.30%) Kotlin
11 29 (1.55%) C#
12 22 (1.17%) Groovy
13 18 (0.96%) Ruby
14 11 (0.59%) COBOL
14 11 (0.59%) JCL
15 6 (0.32%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.32%) Swift
15 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.16%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (1.49%) Degree
2 25 (1.33%) AWS Certification
3 9 (0.48%) 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 57 (3.04%) SLA
2 46 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 17 (0.91%) PMO
5 12 (0.64%) NIST
6 9 (0.48%) QA
System Software
1 96 (5.13%) HDFS
2 69 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.71%) Docker
4 11 (0.59%) Time Sharing Option
5 5 (0.27%) 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
1 251 (13.40%) Terraform
2 224 (11.96%) Kubernetes
3 145 (7.74%) Grafana
4 60 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 21 (1.12%) Ansible
5 21 (1.12%) HAProxy
5 21 (1.12%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (1.12%) Kibana
5 21 (1.12%) 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
1 252 (13.45%) Oracle
2 226 (12.07%) Databricks
3 156 (8.33%) Splunk
4 140 (7.47%) Dynatrace
5 84 (4.48%) Informatica
6 66 (3.52%) Cloudera
7 54 (2.88%) Alteryx
8 53 (2.83%) Google
9 22 (1.17%) Microsoft
10 18 (0.96%) SaltStack
11 17 (0.91%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.91%) Pega
12 15 (0.80%) Cognos
12 15 (0.80%) Sybase
13 9 (0.48%) TOWER Software
14 6 (0.32%) Amplitude
14 6 (0.32%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.32%) Teradata
15 5 (0.27%) VMware
16 3 (0.16%) SolarWinds