The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Operations Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Engineer
Rank 312 313 323
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +10
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 9 10 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.077% 0.077% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.082% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 7
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +69.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,750 £34,000 £25,900
10% offered a salary of more than £53,750 £62,500 £39,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +4.47%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10837 12171 14447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.90% 93.16% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9335 11069 13022
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Operations Engineer
London

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Operations Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Operations Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Operations Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Operations Engineer Salary Trend

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Operations Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Operations Engineer Salary Histogram

Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Operations Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Operations Engineer in their job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Linux
2 10 (41.67%) Cisco
2 10 (41.67%) Juniper
2 10 (41.67%) Firewall
2 10 (41.67%) VMware
3 9 (37.50%) Windows
3 9 (37.50%) Red Hat
4 8 (33.33%) SAN
4 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (29.17%) Finance
5 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (29.17%) Bash shell
6 6 (25.00%) Puppet
6 6 (25.00%) MPLS
6 6 (25.00%) Perl
6 6 (25.00%) PHP
6 6 (25.00%) LAN
6 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (25.00%) Ruby
6 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (20.83%) iSCSI
7 5 (20.83%) DNS
7 5 (20.83%) WAN
7 5 (20.83%) ITIL
7 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
7 5 (20.83%) CCNA
7 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
8 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (16.67%) Problem Management
8 4 (16.67%) JNCIA

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Operations Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Operations Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.333%) Web Services
2 1 (4.167%) LAMP
2 1 (4.167%) Django
2 1 (4.167%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Apache
1 3 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (8.333%) nginx
2 2 (8.333%) Apache Solr
3 1 (4.167%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.167%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (4.167%) Jetty
3 1 (4.167%) Drupal
3 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.167%) MS Office
2 1 (4.167%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) Firewall
2 8 (33.33%) SAN
3 6 (25.00%) MPLS
3 6 (25.00%) LAN
3 6 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (20.83%) iSCSI
4 5 (20.83%) DNS
4 5 (20.83%) WAN
5 3 (12.50%) VPLS
5 3 (12.50%) Wireshark
5 3 (12.50%) HTTP
5 3 (12.50%) tcpdump
6 2 (8.333%) Ethernet
6 2 (8.333%) VPN
6 2 (8.333%) Internet
6 2 (8.333%) DSL
6 2 (8.333%) BGP
6 2 (8.333%) NetScreen
6 2 (8.333%) Wireless
6 2 (8.333%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.333%) MySQL
2 2 (8.333%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.167%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.167%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Subversion
1 1 (4.167%) Mercurial
1 1 (4.167%) Git (software)
1 1 (4.167%) Hudson
1 1 (4.167%) GitHub
1 1 (4.167%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.167%) Capistrano
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (8.333%) Law
4 1 (4.167%) Games
4 1 (4.167%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.167%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Computer Science
1 2 (8.333%) Clustering
2 1 (4.167%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.167%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Linux
2 9 (37.50%) Windows
3 8 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (8.333%) Ubuntu
5 2 (8.333%) Debian
6 1 (4.167%) CentOS
6 1 (4.167%) UNIX
6 1 (4.167%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) ITIL
1 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
2 4 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 3 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 2 (8.333%) Load Balancing
4 2 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (8.333%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.167%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.167%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (4.167%) Load Testing
5 1 (4.167%) Service Management
5 1 (4.167%) RDF
5 1 (4.167%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.167%) Analytics
5 1 (4.167%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Bash shell
2 6 (25.00%) Perl
2 6 (25.00%) PHP
2 6 (25.00%) Ruby
3 3 (12.50%) Java
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (8.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (20.83%) CCNA
3 4 (16.67%) JNCIA
4 2 (8.333%) Degree
4 2 (8.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.167%) CCIE
5 1 (4.167%) CCNP
5 1 (4.167%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.167%) HNC
5 1 (4.167%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) SLA
2 1 (4.167%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.333%) Forefront TMG
2 2 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.333%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.333%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.167%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.167%) vSphere
3 1 (4.167%) Postfix
3 1 (4.167%) XenApp
3 1 (4.167%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.167%) NFS
3 1 (4.167%) VirtualBox
3 1 (4.167%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Puppet
2 2 (8.333%) SCOM
3 1 (4.167%) Ganglia
3 1 (4.167%) Zenoss
3 1 (4.167%) Nagios
3 1 (4.167%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Cisco
1 10 (41.67%) Juniper
1 10 (41.67%) VMware
2 9 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.50%) HP
5 2 (8.333%) CheckPoint
5 2 (8.333%) NetApp
5 2 (8.333%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.167%) NetScout
6 1 (4.167%) Remedy
6 1 (4.167%) CA
6 1 (4.167%) EMC
6 1 (4.167%) Citrix
6 1 (4.167%) JBoss
6 1 (4.167%) Oracle
6 1 (4.167%) F5
6 1 (4.167%) Rackspace
6 1 (4.167%) Aruba
City, London
To develop and maintain operational guidelines for the maintenance and support of the infrastructure - To assist with incident and problem management to resolve issues related to Linux, Network,...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + Good benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013
City of London
Key vendor technologies are Cisco R+S, with Fortigate, Checkpoint and Juniper firewalls and F5 load balancers. Ideal skill set: CCIE standard network engineer LAN/WAN protocols and...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £1 per annum + Banking Salary + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013