Operations Support Engineer Contracts in England

Operations Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Operations Support Engineer daily rate in England is £265 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 636 777
Rank change year-on-year +91 +141 -151
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Support Engineer 4 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.020% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.022% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £174 £320 -
25th Percentile £205 £493 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £540 £400
Median % change year-on-year -50.93% +35.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £330 - -
90th Percentile £365 - -
UK median daily rate £265 £540 £438
% change year-on-year -50.93% +23.43% +45.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Operations Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Support Engineer in England

Operations Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Support Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Operations Support Engineer in England

Operations Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Support Engineer in England

Operations Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Support Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Support Engineer in England

Operations Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +95 3 £375 +50.00% 1
South East - 1 £155 -
Operations Support Engineer
UK

Operations Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Operations Support 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 England region featuring Operations Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) SSH
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (25.00%) Temenos T24
4 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Temenos
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) Middleware
4 1 (25.00%) Reuters
4 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) JBoss
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (25.00%) LDAP

Operations Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ION MarketView
1 1 (25.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Reuters
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Temenos