Operations Engineer Contracts in Reading

Operations Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Reading is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 - 94
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.50% - 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £298
25th Percentile £335 - £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £413
75th Percentile £388 - £478
90th Percentile - - £514
Berkshire median daily rate £345 - £413

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,112 996 1,298
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.68% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 664 884
10th Percentile £213 £363 £181
25th Percentile £413 £453 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £651 £595
90th Percentile £688 £721 £655
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -2.38% +7.09% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 24 7
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.45 £12.30
25th Percentile £52.90 £51.48 £17.63
Median hourly rate £61.60 £65.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +150.00% -40.23%
75th Percentile £74.66 £74.20 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £33.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £59.50 £56.89 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.60% +170.88% -1.29%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Reading

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in Reading

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 30 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 Reading region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) High Availability
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Juniper
3 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
4 3 (50.00%) Change Management
5 2 (33.33%) JNCIA
5 2 (33.33%) JNCIS
5 2 (33.33%) MPLS
5 2 (33.33%) OSPF
5 2 (33.33%) BGP
5 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
5 2 (33.33%) CCNP
5 2 (33.33%) CCNA
5 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 1 (16.67%) Wireless
6 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
6 1 (16.67%) Azure
6 1 (16.67%) SLA

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNA
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) JNCIA
1 2 (33.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto