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 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 554 792 869
Rank change year-on-year +238 +77 -79
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 358 183 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.19% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 143 123 191
10th Percentile £35,525 £28,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,227 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -6.65% +3.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £112,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £49,750
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.51% +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 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%

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 20 May 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 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
UK excluding London +148 294 £50,000 -0.99% 51
England +103 182 £55,000 +4.76% 78
Scotland +77 165 £61,750 +22.28% 2
Work from Home +110 80 £55,000 -22.81% 24
London +119 56 £60,000 +14.29% 30
Midlands +22 37 £65,000 +6.06% 9
South East +5 37 £55,000 -15.38% 17
North of England +50 35 £49,000 +5.84% 10
West Midlands +42 33 £70,000 +133.33% 3
North West +18 23 £50,000 -30.95% 6
South West -43 13 £55,000 +27.91% 2
North East +6 10 £46,382 +0.18% 2
Wales +12 4 £65,000 +13.04%
East Midlands -18 4 £37,625 -47.01% 6
East of England +4 3 £35,000 -34.88% 11
Yorkshire +70 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 85 (23.74%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.03%) FileNet
3 17 (4.75%) Cloud Foundry
4 9 (2.51%) 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 (3.07%) 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 97 (27.09%) AWS
2 84 (23.46%) Azure
3 33 (9.22%) GCP
4 23 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.03%) Amazon S3
6 9 (2.51%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (1.68%) IaaS
7 6 (1.68%) PaaS
8 4 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.84%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.56%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.28%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.28%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.28%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.28%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.15%) Firewall
2 17 (4.75%) Kerberos
3 9 (2.51%) Network Security
3 9 (2.51%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.68%) DNS
4 6 (1.68%) VSAN
5 5 (1.40%) HTTP
5 5 (1.40%) WebEx
6 4 (1.12%) DHCP
6 4 (1.12%) VPN
6 4 (1.12%) WAN
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%) LAN
8 2 (0.56%) NGFW
8 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (19.83%) NoSQL
2 52 (14.53%) Big Data
3 21 (5.87%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (5.03%) Apache Cassandra
5 17 (4.75%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (4.75%) CockroachDB
6 10 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.40%) InfluxDB
7 5 (1.40%) MaxDB
7 5 (1.40%) SAP HANA
8 4 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.12%) MySQL
9 3 (0.84%) GIS
9 3 (0.84%) Power BI
10 2 (0.56%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.28%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.03%) 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
1 216 (60.34%) Finance
2 189 (52.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 165 (46.09%) Law
4 150 (41.90%) Marketing
5 75 (20.95%) Influencing Skills
6 51 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (13.41%) Social Skills
8 14 (3.91%) Banking
9 12 (3.35%) Investment Banking
9 12 (3.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (3.07%) Police
11 10 (2.79%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.51%) Legal
13 8 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.68%) Games
14 6 (1.68%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.40%) Multimedia
16 4 (1.12%) Military
17 3 (0.84%) Retail
17 3 (0.84%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 201 (56.15%) Lead
2 181 (50.56%) Senior
3 159 (44.41%) Software Engineer
4 156 (43.58%) Lead Software Engineer
4 156 (43.58%) Senior Software Engineer
5 78 (21.79%) Java Engineer
5 78 (21.79%) Java Software Engineer
5 78 (21.79%) Lead Java Engineer
5 78 (21.79%) Senior Java Engineer
5 78 (21.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 51 (14.25%) Big Data Engineer
6 51 (14.25%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 51 (14.25%) Lead Big Data Engineer
6 51 (14.25%) Scala Engineer
6 51 (14.25%) Scala Software Engineer
6 51 (14.25%) Senior Big Data Engineer
6 51 (14.25%) Senior Scala Engineer
6 51 (14.25%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
7 45 (12.57%) Java Scala Software Engineer
8 33 (9.22%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.34%) Kafka
1 37 (10.34%) Spring
2 35 (9.78%) GraphQL
2 35 (9.78%) HTML
3 34 (9.50%) PySpark
4 21 (5.87%) AngularJS
4 21 (5.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 18 (5.03%) CSS
5 18 (5.03%) Hibernate
5 18 (5.03%) J2EE
5 18 (5.03%) JMS
5 18 (5.03%) jQuery
5 18 (5.03%) JSON
5 18 (5.03%) Node.js
5 18 (5.03%) React
5 18 (5.03%) Spring Integration
6 17 (4.75%) OAuth
6 17 (4.75%) REST
7 8 (2.23%) .NET
8 5 (1.40%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.66%) Public Cloud
3 23 (6.42%) Product Ownership
4 21 (5.87%) Management Information System
5 19 (5.31%) Cyberattack
6 13 (3.63%) Data Centre
7 12 (3.35%) Biopharmaceutical
7 12 (3.35%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.68%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.40%) CMDB
9 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.12%) PKI
10 4 (1.12%) Tandem
11 3 (0.84%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.84%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.56%) Credit Risk
12 2 (0.56%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (12.29%) Windows
2 24 (6.70%) Linux
3 23 (6.42%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.68%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.12%) Android
6 2 (0.56%) Debian
6 2 (0.56%) Unix
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.28%) CentOS
7 1 (0.28%) Solaris
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (61.73%) Problem-Solving
2 198 (55.31%) Agile
3 170 (47.49%) Software Engineering
4 164 (45.81%) SDLC
5 162 (45.25%) Operational Stability
6 140 (39.11%) Machine Learning
7 138 (38.55%) Artificial Intelligence
8 124 (34.64%) Decision-Making
9 58 (16.20%) Microservices
10 56 (15.64%) Performance Tuning
11 50 (13.97%) ITIL
12 44 (12.29%) Computer Science
13 41 (11.45%) Customer Service
14 38 (10.61%) ETL
15 37 (10.34%) CI/CD
16 35 (9.78%) Mathematics
17 34 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (9.50%) Data Engineering
17 34 (9.50%) Quality Management
18 33 (9.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 160 (44.69%) Java
2 91 (25.42%) SQL
3 64 (17.88%) Python
4 51 (14.25%) Scala
5 21 (5.87%) C#
5 21 (5.87%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.03%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.79%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.40%) ABAP
9 4 (1.12%) C
10 2 (0.56%) C++
10 2 (0.56%) Go
10 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.28%) Bash
11 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 35 (9.78%) Degree
2 26 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.98%) DV Cleared
4 16 (4.47%) CISSP
5 15 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (3.35%) SC Cleared
7 9 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.23%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.96%) A+ Certification
9 7 (1.96%) CCNA
9 7 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
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%) HND
11 4 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.84%) MCITP
13 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.06%) Data Quality
2 25 (6.98%) QA
3 10 (2.79%) SLA
4 6 (1.68%) GxP
4 6 (1.68%) PMO
4 6 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.12%) GDPR
7 3 (0.84%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
8 2 (0.56%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
9 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (8.66%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.68%) vSphere
4 5 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.56%) Docker
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (12.01%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.66%) Terraform
3 6 (1.68%) Grafana
3 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.68%) SCCM
4 5 (1.40%) Puppet
5 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) Autotask
6 1 (0.28%) Cacti
6 1 (0.28%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.28%) Icinga
6 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.87%) Cisco
4 20 (5.59%) Oracle
5 17 (4.75%) Google
6 13 (3.63%) VMware
7 12 (3.35%) SAP
8 7 (1.96%) Dell
9 6 (1.68%) Meraki
10 5 (1.40%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.40%) Sybase
11 4 (1.12%) Databricks
11 4 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.12%) HP
11 4 (1.12%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.84%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.84%) Sophos
13 2 (0.56%) Adobe
13 2 (0.56%) Citrix
13 2 (0.56%) Mitel