The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the England 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 19 June 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Engineer
Rank 708 704 742
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +38
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 136 165 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.134% 0.146% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.142% 0.153% 0.105%
Number of salaries quoted 115 125 112
Average salary £39,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,200 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +9.37%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
96088 107696 114482
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.37% 95.02% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 80815 93104 97727
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Operations Engineer Salary Trend

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Operations Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Operations Engineer Salary Histogram

Operations Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +6 66 £50,000 +25.00% 7
South East -9 34 £39,000 +11.42% 3
Yorkshire +22 14 £25,000 -
South West - 12 £39,000 -
West Midlands -3 10 £32,500 - 1
East of England -7 3 £37,500 +25.00% 3
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 123 (45.90%) Windows
1 123 (45.90%) Cisco
2 103 (38.43%) Linux
3 96 (35.82%) VMware
4 93 (34.70%) Firewall
5 81 (30.22%) Juniper
6 80 (29.85%) Cisco Certification
7 65 (24.25%) SAN
7 65 (24.25%) TCP/IP
8 64 (23.88%) VMware Infrastructure
9 63 (23.51%) Microsoft
10 62 (23.13%) CCNA
11 54 (20.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 51 (19.03%) MPLS
13 43 (16.04%) WAN
13 43 (16.04%) Degree
14 41 (15.30%) DNS
14 41 (15.30%) Red Hat
15 36 (13.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 36 (13.43%) Puppet
16 35 (13.06%) BGP
16 35 (13.06%) HP
16 35 (13.06%) UNIX
17 34 (12.69%) ITIL
17 34 (12.69%) OSPF
17 34 (12.69%) Telecoms
17 34 (12.69%) Finance
17 34 (12.69%) Ruby
18 32 (11.94%) SQL
19 31 (11.57%) CCNP

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 14 (5.224%) .NET
2 7 (2.612%) LAMP
2 7 (2.612%) MCollective
3 6 (2.239%) Web Services
4 5 (1.866%) ASP.NET
4 5 (1.866%) Node.js
4 5 (1.866%) ZeroMQ
4 5 (1.866%) Memcached
5 4 (1.493%) COM
6 3 (1.119%) LINQ
6 3 (1.119%) NHibernate
6 3 (1.119%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (0.746%) VCL
7 2 (0.746%) Middleware
8 1 (0.373%) XML
8 1 (0.373%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.373%) REST
8 1 (0.373%) Resque
8 1 (0.373%) Gearman
8 1 (0.373%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 21 (7.836%) IIS
2 9 (3.358%) Apache
3 8 (2.985%) Tomcat
3 8 (2.985%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.612%) MS Exchange
5 5 (1.866%) nginx
6 4 (1.493%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.493%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (1.119%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 3 (1.119%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (1.119%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (1.119%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.373%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.373%) Drupal
Applications
1 28 (10.45%) MS Excel
2 9 (3.358%) MS Office
3 2 (0.746%) Google Apps
4 1 (0.373%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.746%) RMDS
1 2 (0.746%) BASE24
2 1 (0.373%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 93 (34.70%) Firewall
2 65 (24.25%) SAN
2 65 (24.25%) TCP/IP
3 51 (19.03%) MPLS
4 43 (16.04%) WAN
5 41 (15.30%) DNS
6 35 (13.06%) BGP
7 34 (12.69%) OSPF
8 30 (11.19%) LAN
9 25 (9.328%) iSCSI
9 25 (9.328%) Ethernet
10 22 (8.209%) VLAN
11 20 (7.463%) Wireless
11 20 (7.463%) VPN
12 18 (6.716%) Cisco ASA
12 18 (6.716%) Internet
13 17 (6.343%) HTTP
14 16 (5.970%) VPLS
15 14 (5.224%) Cisco IOS
15 14 (5.224%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 22 (8.209%) MySQL
3 7 (2.612%) Redis
4 6 (2.239%) Hadoop
4 6 (2.239%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.119%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (0.746%) Big Data
6 2 (0.746%) DTS
7 1 (0.373%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.373%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 9 (3.358%) Git (software)
2 7 (2.612%) Subversion
3 4 (1.493%) TeamCity
3 4 (1.493%) Capistrano
3 4 (1.493%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.746%) Redmine
5 1 (0.373%) Hudson
5 1 (0.373%) GitHub
5 1 (0.373%) Phing
5 1 (0.373%) RSpec
5 1 (0.373%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.373%) WinDbg
5 1 (0.373%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.373%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.373%) Mercurial
General
1 34 (12.69%) Telecoms
1 34 (12.69%) Finance
2 21 (7.836%) Banking
3 9 (3.358%) Financial Institution
4 6 (2.239%) Games
5 5 (1.866%) Investment Banking
5 5 (1.866%) Law
6 3 (1.119%) Electronics
6 3 (1.119%) Publishing
7 2 (0.746%) Retail
7 2 (0.746%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.836%) Computer Science
2 13 (4.851%) Hedge funds
3 10 (3.731%) Clustering
4 9 (3.358%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.358%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.612%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.239%) SaaS
7 4 (1.493%) Open Source
8 3 (1.119%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.119%) Streaming Video
8 3 (1.119%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.119%) IaaS
8 3 (1.119%) iPhone
8 3 (1.119%) iPad
9 2 (0.746%) iSeries
9 2 (0.746%) PaaS
9 2 (0.746%) Online Games
9 2 (0.746%) NHS
9 2 (0.746%) Firmware
10 1 (0.373%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 123 (45.90%) Windows
2 103 (38.43%) Linux
3 54 (20.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 36 (13.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (13.06%) UNIX
6 27 (10.07%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (2.612%) VMS
7 7 (2.612%) Debian
8 6 (2.239%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.866%) Solaris
9 5 (1.866%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.119%) AIX
10 3 (1.119%) Windows 2000 Server
10 3 (1.119%) CentOS
11 2 (0.746%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.746%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.746%) Windows 2000
12 1 (0.373%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.373%) Gentoo
12 1 (0.373%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (12.69%) ITIL
2 18 (6.716%) Load Balancing
3 17 (6.343%) Problem Management
4 15 (5.597%) Change Management
5 12 (4.478%) Incident Management
6 9 (3.358%) Project Management
6 9 (3.358%) Service Delivery
7 8 (2.985%) Infrastructure Management
7 8 (2.985%) Network Management
8 7 (2.612%) Software Engineering
8 7 (2.612%) Configuration Management
8 7 (2.612%) Capacity Management
9 6 (2.239%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (2.239%) E-Commerce
10 5 (1.866%) CRM
10 5 (1.866%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (1.866%) Database Security
10 5 (1.866%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (1.866%) Capacity Planning
11 4 (1.493%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 34 (12.69%) Ruby
2 32 (11.94%) SQL
3 30 (11.19%) Perl
4 28 (10.45%) PHP
5 26 (9.701%) Bash shell
6 14 (5.224%) Python
6 14 (5.224%) Java
7 7 (2.612%) C++
8 6 (2.239%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.239%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.866%) Scala
10 4 (1.493%) Clojure
10 4 (1.493%) C#
10 4 (1.493%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.119%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.119%) R
12 2 (0.746%) C
12 2 (0.746%) VBScript
13 1 (0.373%) VB
Qualifications
1 80 (29.85%) Cisco Certification
2 62 (23.13%) CCNA
3 43 (16.04%) Degree
4 31 (11.57%) CCNP
5 23 (8.582%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (5.597%) CCIP
6 15 (5.597%) JNCIA
7 14 (5.224%) MCSE
8 11 (4.104%) CCSP
8 11 (4.104%) CCSA
9 10 (3.731%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (3.731%) CCDA
9 10 (3.731%) CCIE
10 6 (2.239%) CCSE
10 6 (2.239%) MCP
11 5 (1.866%) MCSA
11 5 (1.866%) Security Cleared
12 4 (1.493%) SC Cleared
13 3 (1.119%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.119%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.836%) SLA
2 4 (1.493%) QA
3 2 (0.746%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.373%) BS7799
4 1 (0.373%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 64 (23.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (9.701%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.970%) vSphere
4 14 (5.224%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (3.731%) VMware ESX
6 8 (2.985%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.985%) Varnish
7 7 (2.612%) ProxySG
7 7 (2.612%) Forefront TMG
8 5 (1.866%) NFS
8 5 (1.866%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (1.866%) XenDesktop
9 4 (1.493%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (1.119%) XenApp
11 2 (0.746%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.746%) Samba
12 1 (0.373%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.373%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.373%) SpamAssassin
12 1 (0.373%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 36 (13.43%) Puppet
2 16 (5.970%) Nagios
3 11 (4.104%) SCOM
4 9 (3.358%) FortiGate
5 6 (2.239%) ZABBIX
6 5 (1.866%) SolarWinds Orion
6 5 (1.866%) Ganglia
6 5 (1.866%) Zenoss
7 4 (1.493%) ServiceCenter
7 4 (1.493%) WSUS
7 4 (1.493%) Backup Exec
8 3 (1.119%) SCCM
9 2 (0.746%) Cacti
9 2 (0.746%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.373%) Netcool
10 1 (0.373%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.373%) DameWare
10 1 (0.373%) Splunk
10 1 (0.373%) Vagrant
Vendors
1 123 (45.90%) Cisco
2 96 (35.82%) VMware
3 81 (30.22%) Juniper
4 63 (23.51%) Microsoft
5 41 (15.30%) Red Hat
6 35 (13.06%) HP
7 30 (11.19%) F5
8 28 (10.45%) CheckPoint
9 16 (5.970%) EMC
10 15 (5.597%) Citrix
11 14 (5.224%) NetApp
12 12 (4.478%) Blue Coat
13 9 (3.358%) Brocade
13 9 (3.358%) Fortinet
13 9 (3.358%) Foundry
14 8 (2.985%) NetScout
14 8 (2.985%) CA
14 8 (2.985%) McAfee
15 7 (2.612%) Dell
16 6 (2.239%) Riverbed
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IT Operations Engineer required for an exciting and dynamic organisation based in Coventry. This new position offers a varied and challenging opportunity to progress your career within the...
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Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 3 June 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Good understanding of SQL and associated database administration - System administration of database and web based systems (we use Firebird and apache) - Network systems design, planning or deployment - Experience...
Computer Futures
Posted: 28 May 2013
London
Senior Web Operations Engineer - London - to 45kOur client, a world leading media and publishing house are seeking a Senior Web Operations manager-You will be responsible for:* Varnish...
OPUS
Salary: GBP37500 to GBP45000 per annum
Posted: 15 June 2013
London
Senior Web Operations Engineer - London - to 45k. Our client, a world leading media and publishing house are seeking a Senior Web Operations manager.
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £37500 to £45000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Woking, Surrey
Good knowledge of UNIX. Knowledge of firewall rules... PRTG, Nagios. Strong MS Office skills, particularly Outlook, Excel, and Word... Essential Skills and Knowledge - Data Centre Operations - Networks specific...
Fidessa
Posted: 17 June 2013
Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside
Trader Media Group Ltd
Salary: Up to £23,000 per annum on-call, bonus and great benefits
Posted: 3 June 2013
West London
Trent Pearce
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Wokingham, Berkshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 45,000 - 55,000 + benefits + bonus
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Computer Futures
Posted: 4 June 2013
London
Verticality Ltd
Salary: £20000 to £25000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
bridgenoble
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 5 June 2013
West London
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Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
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