Target Operating Model (TOM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Target Operating Model skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Target Operating Model over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 709 678 753
Rank change year-on-year -31 +75 -113
Permanent jobs citing Target Operating Model 177 306 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 129 153 296
10th Percentile £39,280 £46,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,000 £56,219 £54,797
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,700 £59,526 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.39% -4.76% +38.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Target Operating Model 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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

Target Operating Model
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Target Operating Model as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Target Operating Model in the UK

Target Operating Model
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Target Operating Model.

Salary trend for Target Operating Model in the UK

Target Operating Model
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Target Operating Model over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Target Operating Model in the UK

Target Operating Model
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Target Operating Model within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England -11 146 £72,000 -4.00% 56
UK excluding London -49 90 £58,700 -1.39% 24
London +47 78 £80,000 -5.88% 32
Work from Home +17 68 £72,500 +16.00% 26
North of England +18 20 £70,000 +17.60% 6
Wales +19 17 £40,553 -19.69%
Midlands -8 17 £55,000 - 6
North West -8 14 £70,000 +17.60% 3
South East +6 13 £77,500 - 4
South West -28 10 £58,700 -2.17% 6
West Midlands +7 9 £58,700 +6.73% 6
East Midlands -13 8 £31,897 -19.25%
Scotland -86 8 £92,500 +55.39%
Yorkshire +69 4 - - 1
East of England +8 3 £65,000 - 2
Northern Ireland +31 2 - -
North East - 2 £48,500 - 2

Target Operating Model
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 13 (7.34%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (4.52%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.95%) SAP HCM
1 7 (3.95%) Workday HCM
2 5 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.13%) Aladdin
3 2 (1.13%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.13%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.13%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 42 (23.73%) Azure
2 37 (20.90%) AWS
3 25 (14.12%) Power Platform
4 14 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (5.08%) GCP
7 7 (3.95%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (2.26%) Alation
8 4 (2.26%) Collibra
9 2 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.56%) IaaS
10 1 (0.56%) OCI
10 1 (0.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Firewall
1 1 (0.56%) VoIP
1 1 (0.56%) WAN
1 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.69%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (13.56%) Data Vault
2 24 (13.56%) Power BI
2 24 (13.56%) Tableau
3 9 (5.08%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (2.26%) Metadata
5 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (8.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.56%) Git
General
1 50 (28.25%) Finance
2 32 (18.08%) Banking
3 30 (16.95%) Presentation Skills
4 28 (15.82%) Social Skills
5 27 (15.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (10.17%) Law
7 15 (8.47%) Police
8 9 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (5.08%) Retail Banking
9 4 (2.26%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.26%) Legal
9 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.69%) Advertising
10 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.13%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (1.13%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.13%) Retail
11 2 (1.13%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (27.68%) Architect
2 38 (21.47%) Senior
3 33 (18.64%) Analyst
4 30 (16.95%) Data Architect
5 29 (16.38%) Project Manager
6 24 (13.56%) Principal Architect
6 24 (13.56%) Principal Data Architect
7 20 (11.30%) Business Manager
8 14 (7.91%) Senior Analyst
9 13 (7.34%) Business Analyst
10 12 (6.78%) Business Systems Manager
10 12 (6.78%) Senior Business Analyst
10 12 (6.78%) Senior Manager
10 12 (6.78%) Systems Manager
11 11 (6.21%) Insurance Business Analyst
11 11 (6.21%) Oracle Analyst
12 10 (5.65%) Financial Analyst
12 10 (5.65%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 10 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (5.65%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (5.65%) Middleware
3 2 (1.13%) .NET
3 2 (1.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.56%) JSON
4 1 (0.56%) Node.js
4 1 (0.56%) REST
4 1 (0.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.52%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (3.39%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.39%) Reference Data
3 4 (2.26%) PMI
3 4 (2.26%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.13%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.13%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.56%) Blog
5 1 (0.56%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.56%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.56%) Podcast
5 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.56%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Android
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.12%) Project Management
2 47 (26.55%) Change Management
3 41 (23.16%) Business Development
3 41 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (22.03%) Data Architecture
5 37 (20.90%) TOGAF
6 36 (20.34%) Data Modelling
7 31 (17.51%) Analytics
8 28 (15.82%) Agile
8 28 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 26 (14.69%) DevOps
10 25 (14.12%) Cost Reduction
11 24 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (13.56%) Data Analysis
11 24 (13.56%) Data Analytics
11 24 (13.56%) Data Science
11 24 (13.56%) Kimball Methodology
11 24 (13.56%) User Experience
11 24 (13.56%) Value Proposition
12 23 (12.99%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.52%) SQL
2 2 (1.13%) C#
2 2 (1.13%) Python
3 1 (0.56%) Java
3 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (10.17%) PMI Certification
2 15 (8.47%) Degree
3 14 (7.91%) PMP
4 12 (6.78%) APMG
5 3 (1.69%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) ACCA
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.56%) CISM
6 1 (0.56%) CISSP
6 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.56%) MBA
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.91%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.26%) QA
3 2 (1.13%) GDPR
3 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.13%) PMO
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 29 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.43%) Oracle
3 21 (11.86%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.78%) Salesforce
5 9 (5.08%) SAP
6 7 (3.95%) Workday
7 4 (2.26%) Informatica
7 4 (2.26%) Talend
8 1 (0.56%) Charles River
8 1 (0.56%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.56%) eFront
8 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.56%) Yardi