Tech Ops Jobs in the UK excluding London

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 608 675
Rank change year-on-year +109 +67 -60
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 289 125 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.23% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 101 75 120
10th Percentile £38,500 £28,000 £31,563
25th Percentile £43,227 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,573 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +3.66% -0.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £88,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £155,000 £72,625
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.96% -0.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 62,321 53,973 69,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.77% 95.48% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,680 28,676 41,266
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Scotland +70 159 £60,000 - 5
South East -17 41 £61,250 -5.77% 14
Midlands +17 38 £70,000 +57.18% 3
West Midlands +18 35 £70,000 +100.00% 1
North of England +41 31 £48,000 +3.68% 9
North West +3 19 £50,000 -30.95% 6
South West -51 13 £55,000 +27.91% 6
North East -4 10 £46,382 +0.18% 1
Wales +8 4 £65,000 +13.04% 1
East of England -8 3 £35,000 -46.15% 12
East Midlands -15 3 £35,000 -50.70% 2
Yorkshire +47 2 £42,000 +60.00% 3
Tech Ops
UK

Tech Ops
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (28.03%) Apache Spark
2 18 (6.23%) FileNet
3 17 (5.88%) Cloud Foundry
4 7 (2.42%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.38%) CMS
5 4 (1.38%) Umbraco
6 3 (1.04%) IIS
6 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.73%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 94 (32.53%) AWS
2 70 (24.22%) Azure
3 31 (10.73%) GCP
4 19 (6.57%) Amazon S3
5 11 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (2.08%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.04%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.69%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.35%) Boomi
11 1 (0.35%) Serverless
11 1 (0.35%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.35%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.57%) Firewall
2 17 (5.88%) Kerberos
3 7 (2.42%) HTTP
4 6 (2.08%) Network Security
4 6 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.08%) VSAN
5 5 (1.73%) DNS
6 3 (1.04%) DHCP
7 2 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.69%) Internet
7 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.69%) VLAN
7 2 (0.69%) VPN
7 2 (0.69%) WAN
8 1 (0.35%) NGFW
8 1 (0.35%) SAN
8 1 (0.35%) SSH
8 1 (0.35%) Telnet
8 1 (0.35%) VoIP
8 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (23.88%) NoSQL
2 49 (16.96%) Big Data
3 20 (6.92%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (6.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 17 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (5.88%) CockroachDB
6 9 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.73%) MaxDB
8 5 (1.73%) SAP HANA
9 4 (1.38%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.38%) InfluxDB
10 3 (1.04%) GIS
10 3 (1.04%) MySQL
10 3 (1.04%) Power BI
11 2 (0.69%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.23%) JUnit
2 7 (2.42%) Git
3 4 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (1.38%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.04%) JIRA
5 2 (0.69%) Maven
General
1 179 (61.94%) Finance
2 167 (57.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 156 (53.98%) Law
4 143 (49.48%) Marketing
5 54 (18.69%) Influencing Skills
6 44 (15.22%) Social Skills
7 41 (14.19%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.84%) Banking
9 13 (4.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (4.15%) Investment Banking
11 9 (3.11%) Police
11 9 (3.11%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.42%) Legal
12 7 (2.42%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.08%) Games
13 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.38%) Military
15 3 (1.04%) Retail
15 3 (1.04%) Social Housing
16 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (61.25%) Lead
2 173 (59.86%) Senior
3 148 (51.21%) Lead Software Engineer
3 148 (51.21%) Senior Software Engineer
3 148 (51.21%) Software Engineer
4 76 (26.30%) Java Engineer
4 76 (26.30%) Java Software Engineer
4 76 (26.30%) Lead Java Engineer
4 76 (26.30%) Senior Java Engineer
4 76 (26.30%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 49 (16.96%) Big Data Engineer
5 49 (16.96%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 49 (16.96%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 49 (16.96%) Scala Engineer
5 49 (16.96%) Scala Software Engineer
5 49 (16.96%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 49 (16.96%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 49 (16.96%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
6 45 (15.57%) Java Scala Software Engineer
7 23 (7.96%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.80%) Kafka
1 37 (12.80%) Spring
2 35 (12.11%) GraphQL
3 32 (11.07%) PySpark
4 21 (7.27%) AngularJS
4 21 (7.27%) HTML
4 21 (7.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 18 (6.23%) CSS
5 18 (6.23%) Hibernate
5 18 (6.23%) J2EE
5 18 (6.23%) JMS
5 18 (6.23%) jQuery
5 18 (6.23%) JSON
5 18 (6.23%) Node.js
5 18 (6.23%) React
5 18 (6.23%) Spring Integration
6 17 (5.88%) OAuth
6 17 (5.88%) REST
7 8 (2.77%) .NET
8 5 (1.73%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.96%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.03%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.54%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.50%) Biopharmaceutical
4 13 (4.50%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.15%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.11%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.73%) CMDB
7 5 (1.73%) Cyberattack
8 4 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.38%) PKI
8 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.38%) Tandem
9 3 (1.04%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.04%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.69%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) PropTech
11 1 (0.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 38 (13.15%) Windows
2 24 (8.30%) Linux
3 22 (7.61%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.73%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.38%) Android
7 2 (0.69%) Debian
8 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.35%) Solaris
8 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (65.05%) Problem-Solving
2 175 (60.55%) Agile
3 158 (54.67%) Software Engineering
4 155 (53.63%) SDLC
5 154 (53.29%) Operational Stability
6 130 (44.98%) Artificial Intelligence
6 130 (44.98%) Machine Learning
7 104 (35.99%) Decision-Making
8 57 (19.72%) Microservices
9 54 (18.69%) Performance Tuning
10 40 (13.84%) Computer Science
11 39 (13.49%) ITIL
12 36 (12.46%) CI/CD
12 36 (12.46%) ETL
13 34 (11.76%) Customer Service
13 34 (11.76%) Mathematics
14 33 (11.42%) Quality Management
15 32 (11.07%) Data Engineering
16 30 (10.38%) Service Delivery
17 29 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 151 (52.25%) Java
2 89 (30.80%) SQL
3 60 (20.76%) Python
4 49 (16.96%) Scala
5 21 (7.27%) JavaScript
6 20 (6.92%) C#
7 18 (6.23%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.81%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.73%) ABAP
10 4 (1.38%) C
11 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) C++
12 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 24 (8.30%) Degree
2 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (3.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.46%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.42%) A+ Certification
6 7 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.08%) CCNA
8 4 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (1.38%) MCSA
8 4 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.04%) CCNP
9 3 (1.04%) MCITP
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.35%) CISM
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) GIAC
10 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.07%) Data Quality
2 22 (7.61%) QA
3 7 (2.42%) GxP
3 7 (2.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (2.42%) SLA
4 6 (2.08%) PMO
5 4 (1.38%) GDPR
5 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.04%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.35%) NCSC
7 1 (0.35%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 27 (9.34%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.08%) vSphere
4 5 (1.73%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (15.22%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.03%) Terraform
3 7 (2.42%) Puppet
4 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.38%) Grafana
5 4 (1.38%) SCCM
6 1 (0.35%) Autotask
Vendors
1 33 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.92%) Oracle
3 17 (5.88%) Google
3 17 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.19%) Cisco
5 12 (4.15%) SAP
5 12 (4.15%) VMware
6 6 (2.08%) Dell
7 5 (1.73%) Meraki
7 5 (1.73%) Sybase
8 4 (1.38%) Databricks
8 4 (1.38%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.38%) HP
8 4 (1.38%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.04%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.04%) Sophos
10 2 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.69%) ForeScout
10 2 (0.69%) Mitel