Operations Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £431 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 378 439
Rank change year-on-year +41 +61 -41
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 53 65 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 42 49
10th Percentile £335 £355 £305
25th Percentile £406 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.15% +8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £695 £658
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +25 24 £411 -8.67% 7
North of England +27 17 £421 -35.28% 9
North East +24 9 £375 -46.43% 2
Scotland +44 6 £713 +67.65%
North West -1 6 £550 -15.38% 5
Midlands +20 4 £450 -16.67% 7
East of England +13 4 £442 +41.44%
West Midlands +10 4 £450 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire +18 2 - - 2
South West +10 1 £425 -43.33% 4
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 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 UK excluding London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (28.30%) Cisco
2 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
3 14 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 14 (26.42%) Azure
4 13 (24.53%) Data Centre
5 12 (22.64%) DevOps
5 12 (22.64%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (22.64%) Juniper
6 11 (20.75%) Active Directory
6 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (18.87%) CCNP
7 10 (18.87%) Linux
7 10 (18.87%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (18.87%) Agile
8 9 (16.98%) JNCIA
8 9 (16.98%) AWS
8 9 (16.98%) Cisco Nexus
8 9 (16.98%) Firewall
8 9 (16.98%) Terraform
9 8 (15.09%) Ansible
9 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
9 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
9 8 (15.09%) High Availability
10 7 (13.21%) Incident Management
10 7 (13.21%) JIRA
10 7 (13.21%) Change Management
10 7 (13.21%) Migration
10 7 (13.21%) CCNA
10 7 (13.21%) Microsoft

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (9.43%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) AWS
3 6 (11.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (5.66%) PaaS
5 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.77%) IaaS
7 1 (1.89%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.89%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 12 (22.64%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (16.98%) Cisco Nexus
2 9 (16.98%) Firewall
3 6 (11.32%) BGP
3 6 (11.32%) EIGRP
3 6 (11.32%) MPLS
3 6 (11.32%) OSPF
4 5 (9.43%) Wireless
5 4 (7.55%) VPN
6 3 (5.66%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (5.66%) LAN
6 3 (5.66%) Network Security
6 3 (5.66%) WAN
7 2 (3.77%) DHCP
7 2 (3.77%) DNS
7 2 (3.77%) SSL
7 2 (3.77%) VSAN
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.89%) DMZ
8 1 (1.89%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
1 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
1 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.89%) Metadata
3 1 (1.89%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) JIRA
2 5 (9.43%) Git
3 3 (5.66%) GitLab
3 3 (5.66%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.77%) JMeter
4 2 (3.77%) Selenium
5 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.89%) Gradle
5 1 (1.89%) gulp
5 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.89%) Maven
5 1 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.89%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Automotive
5 2 (3.77%) Banking
5 2 (3.77%) Finance
5 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) .NET
1 2 (3.77%) .NET Core
1 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
1 2 (3.77%) Kafka
1 2 (3.77%) REST
1 2 (3.77%) RESTful
1 2 (3.77%) Web Services
2 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) PKI
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.77%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
2 6 (11.32%) Windows
3 5 (9.43%) Unix
4 2 (3.77%) VMS
4 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.89%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (22.64%) DevOps
3 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (18.87%) Agile
5 8 (15.09%) CI/CD
5 8 (15.09%) High Availability
6 7 (13.21%) Change Management
6 7 (13.21%) Incident Management
6 7 (13.21%) Migration
7 6 (11.32%) Service Management
8 5 (9.43%) Analytics
8 5 (9.43%) Cloud Operations
8 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (9.43%) ITIL
9 4 (7.55%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.55%) Process Improvement
9 4 (7.55%) Scrum
10 3 (5.66%) Data Migration
10 3 (5.66%) Problem Management
10 3 (5.66%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.32%) SQL
2 5 (9.43%) Python
3 4 (7.55%) Bash
3 4 (7.55%) Go
4 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.77%) Groovy
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Java
6 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) PHP
6 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.89%) Ruby
6 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) CCNP
3 10 (18.87%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (16.98%) JNCIA
5 7 (13.21%) CCNA
6 6 (11.32%) Degree
6 6 (11.32%) JNCIS
7 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (5.66%) CCSA
8 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.77%) VCAP
9 2 (3.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.89%) CISSP
10 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) SLA
2 1 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.32%) Docker
3 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.77%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.77%) vSphere
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (16.98%) Terraform
2 8 (15.09%) Ansible
2 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.55%) Grafana
3 4 (7.55%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.66%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Cisco
2 12 (22.64%) Juniper
3 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.43%) Palo Alto
5 4 (7.55%) Atlassian
6 3 (5.66%) Blue Coat
6 3 (5.66%) CheckPoint
6 3 (5.66%) Oracle
6 3 (5.66%) PagerDuty
6 3 (5.66%) Splunk
6 3 (5.66%) VMware
7 2 (3.77%) SAP
8 1 (1.89%) CA
8 1 (1.89%) F5
8 1 (1.89%) iManage
8 1 (1.89%) Intapp