Operations Engineer Contracts in Central London

Operations Engineer
London > Central London

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Central London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 168 194
Rank change year-on-year +44 +26 -33
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 13 8 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.54% 0.21% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile £408 - £374
25th Percentile £413 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -20.35% +7.62%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £596
90th Percentile £663 £650 £612
London median daily rate £638 £649 £575
% change year-on-year -1.77% +12.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,299 3,591 4,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.20% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,455 3,245
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £444 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +4.89% +7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 53
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £18.93 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.81 £57.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £40.38 £86.65 £65.10
London median hourly rate £27.25 £35.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.78% +2.14% +8.63%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured Operations Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Central London

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in Central London

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in Central London

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in Central London

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +51 13 £625 +38.89% 2
Operations Engineer
London

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Operations Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (84.62%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
3 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
3 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 5 (38.46%) Windows
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
4 4 (30.77%) Azure
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 3 (23.08%) Finance
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
6 2 (15.38%) Server Management
6 2 (15.38%) Banking
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
6 2 (15.38%) Temenos
6 2 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 2 (15.38%) Oracle
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco
6 2 (15.38%) IBM
6 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
6 2 (15.38%) Unix
6 2 (15.38%) Linux

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) JBoss
1 2 (15.38%) nginx
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) LAN
2 2 (15.38%) SSL
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
1 2 (15.38%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (15.38%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (15.38%) Runbook
2 2 (15.38%) Scrum
2 2 (15.38%) Server Management
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Application Packaging
3 1 (7.69%) Coaching
3 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.69%) Document Management
3 1 (7.69%) Information Retrieval
3 1 (7.69%) Logistics
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) DV Cleared
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) Temenos
3 1 (7.69%) iManage
3 1 (7.69%) Intapp