Operations Engineer Contracts

Operations Engineer
UK

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 580 690
Rank change year-on-year +108 +110 -74
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 111 116 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 75 104
10th Percentile £363 £370 £361
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £616
90th Percentile £700 £709 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -20.15% +2.96% +16.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,665 55,057 84,118
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,784 38,442 59,095
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,534 2,069
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.26 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England +106 105 £548 -8.75% 48
London +103 57 £638 -1.77% 20
UK excluding London +57 52 £431 -20.15% 28
Work from Home +103 28 £445 -19.09% 17
South East +24 24 £411 -8.67% 7
North of England +15 17 £421 -35.28% 9
North East +21 9 £375 -46.43% 2
Scotland +48 6 £713 +67.65%
North West +6 6 £550 -15.38% 5
East of England +8 4 £442 +41.44%
Midlands +23 3 £450 -16.67% 7
West Midlands +16 3 £450 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire +21 2 - - 2
South West +15 1 £425 -43.33% 4

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 36 (32.43%) Firewall
3 35 (31.53%) DevOps
4 34 (30.63%) Azure
5 30 (27.03%) AWS
6 23 (20.72%) Terraform
7 22 (19.82%) Windows
8 20 (18.02%) PowerShell
9 19 (17.12%) Cisco
10 18 (16.22%) CI/CD
10 18 (16.22%) Kubernetes
11 17 (15.32%) DV Cleared
11 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (14.41%) Microsoft
13 15 (13.51%) Active Directory
13 15 (13.51%) Linux
13 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
14 14 (12.61%) Data Centre
14 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
15 13 (11.71%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (11.71%) Migration
15 13 (11.71%) SQL
15 13 (11.71%) Roadmaps
16 12 (10.81%) Social Skills
16 12 (10.81%) Juniper
16 12 (10.81%) Agile
16 12 (10.81%) Docker
17 11 (9.91%) Microsoft 365
17 11 (9.91%) Incident Management

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (5.41%) Apache
2 5 (4.50%) Confluence
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.70%) JBoss
4 3 (2.70%) nginx
4 3 (2.70%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.90%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.63%) Azure
2 30 (27.03%) AWS
3 11 (9.91%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.01%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.21%) PaaS
6 7 (6.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.41%) IaaS
8 5 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.50%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.50%) Serverless
9 4 (3.60%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.60%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.70%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.80%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (1.80%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 36 (32.43%) Firewall
2 13 (11.71%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (8.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (7.21%) DNS
4 8 (7.21%) Network Security
5 7 (6.31%) LAN
5 7 (6.31%) VPN
6 6 (5.41%) BGP
6 6 (5.41%) EIGRP
6 6 (5.41%) MPLS
6 6 (5.41%) OSPF
6 6 (5.41%) WAN
6 6 (5.41%) Wireless
7 4 (3.60%) DHCP
7 4 (3.60%) SSL
8 3 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.80%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (1.80%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.01%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.80%) MySQL
5 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.90%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.90%) Metadata
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Git
1 7 (6.31%) JIRA
1 7 (6.31%) TeamCity
2 4 (3.60%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.70%) GitLab
3 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.70%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.80%) JMeter
4 2 (1.80%) Selenium
4 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.90%) Gradle
5 1 (0.90%) gulp
5 1 (0.90%) Maven
5 1 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.90%) Travis CI
General
1 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
2 12 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.11%) Banking
4 8 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.41%) Finance
6 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.80%) Automotive
7 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Front Office
8 1 (0.90%) Law
8 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) AWS CDK
1 8 (7.21%) React
2 4 (3.60%) Gherkin
2 4 (3.60%) Node.js
2 4 (3.60%) Vue
3 3 (2.70%) .NET
3 3 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.70%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.80%) JSON
4 2 (1.80%) Kafka
4 2 (1.80%) REST
4 2 (1.80%) RESTful
4 2 (1.80%) Web Services
5 1 (0.90%) LDAP
5 1 (0.90%) OAuth
5 1 (0.90%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.90%) XML
5 1 (0.90%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.60%) PKI
3 3 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.80%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.80%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.90%) CMDB
5 1 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.90%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.90%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.90%) Insider Threat
5 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.90%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.82%) Windows
2 15 (13.51%) Linux
3 11 (9.91%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.21%) Unix
5 3 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.80%) VMS
6 2 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.90%) MVS
7 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (31.53%) DevOps
2 18 (16.22%) CI/CD
3 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (11.71%) Migration
5 13 (11.71%) Roadmaps
6 12 (10.81%) Agile
7 11 (9.91%) Containerisation
7 11 (9.91%) Incident Management
8 10 (9.01%) Scrum
8 10 (9.01%) Service Delivery
9 8 (7.21%) Change Management
9 8 (7.21%) Cloud Operations
9 8 (7.21%) High Availability
10 7 (6.31%) Analytics
10 7 (6.31%) ITIL
10 7 (6.31%) Security Operations
10 7 (6.31%) Service Management
11 6 (5.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 6 (5.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.02%) PowerShell
2 13 (11.71%) SQL
3 9 (8.11%) JavaScript
3 9 (8.11%) Python
4 6 (5.41%) Bash
5 5 (4.50%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.60%) Go
7 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.80%) C#
8 2 (1.80%) Groovy
8 2 (1.80%) Java
9 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.90%) PHP
9 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.90%) Ruby
9 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.32%) DV Cleared
3 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.91%) CCNP
4 11 (9.91%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (9.91%) Degree
5 9 (8.11%) JNCIA
6 8 (7.21%) CCNA
7 6 (5.41%) JNCIS
8 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.70%) CCSA
9 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.80%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (1.80%) VCAP
10 2 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.90%) Check Point Certification
11 1 (0.90%) CISSP
11 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) SLA
2 3 (2.70%) NIST
3 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.90%) NCSC
4 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.81%) Docker
3 3 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.80%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.80%) vSphere
5 1 (0.90%) NFS
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (20.72%) Terraform
2 18 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.21%) Ansible
3 8 (7.21%) Grafana
3 8 (7.21%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.70%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.80%) SCCM
6 2 (1.80%) WSUS
7 1 (0.90%) Podman
7 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (17.12%) Cisco
2 16 (14.41%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.81%) Juniper
4 7 (6.31%) Oracle
4 7 (6.31%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.60%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.60%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.70%) Blue Coat
6 3 (2.70%) CA
6 3 (2.70%) IBM
6 3 (2.70%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.70%) Splunk
6 3 (2.70%) Temenos
6 3 (2.70%) VMware
7 2 (1.80%) iManage
7 2 (1.80%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.80%) SAP
7 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.80%) Sophos
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