Operations Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 93 134
Rank change year-on-year +1 +41 -45
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 7 22 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.46% 1.16% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.20% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 7
10th Percentile £465 £500 £394
25th Percentile £529 £525 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £618 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% -1.20% +21.95%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £650
90th Percentile £628 - £670
North West median daily rate £550 £618 £448
% change year-on-year -10.93% +37.99% -12.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,464 1,841 2,502
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.69% 96.69% 97.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 1,374 1,979
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £400 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £661 £650
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 59 61
10th Percentile £12.05 £14.20 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.89% +100.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £60.63 £48.13 £23.53
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £33.75
North West median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.25
% change year-on-year -13.59% +50.85% +12.47%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Manchester

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in Manchester

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 Manchester region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Operations
3 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
3 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
3 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Go
3 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 3 (42.86%) Docker
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (42.86%) HP Fortify
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
3 3 (42.86%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Git
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Splunk
4 2 (28.57%) Agile

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon ELB
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (14.29%) DMZ
1 1 (14.29%) PPP
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Information Security
5 1 (14.29%) ITSM
5 1 (14.29%) Open Source
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Use Case
5 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
1 3 (42.86%) Go
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) HP Fortify
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto