Operations Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Operations Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Operations Engineer salary in Birmingham is £73,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 137 189
Rank change year-on-year -1 +52 -45
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 8 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.29% 0.050% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.053% 0.100%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £57,750 - £37,575
25th Percentile £61,875 £56,250 £46,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £57,500 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% -6.88% +54.38%
75th Percentile £88,750 £58,750 £76,313
90th Percentile - - £84,525
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +15.85% -3.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,563 1,879 3,013
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 93.34% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,089 1,428 2,335
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,914 £70,700 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Birmingham

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in Birmingham

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Operations Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) SaaS
3 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (50.00%) High Availability
4 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (50.00%) TeamCity
4 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (50.00%) Windows
4 4 (50.00%) VMS
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (50.00%) IIS
4 4 (50.00%) QA
4 4 (50.00%) Release Management
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
6 1 (12.50%) SDLC

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) SaaS
3 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (50.00%) TeamCity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) VMS
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) Release Management
2 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft