Operations Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Operations Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 164 189
Rank change year-on-year +50 +25 -45
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 13 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.59% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.23% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £408 - £365
25th Percentile £413 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £555
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -18.92% +6.73%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £592
90th Percentile £663 £650 £596
Central London median daily rate £625 £450 £555
% change year-on-year +38.89% -18.92% +6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,102 3,480 3,996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.19% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 2,360 3,018
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.98 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the City of London

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in the City of London

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in the City of London

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in the City of London

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 City of 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 the City of 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