Operations Engineer Jobs in England

Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Operations Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 755 825
Rank change year-on-year +117 +70 -149
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 196 172 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 149 147 183
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,050 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +8.13% +3.05%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,198 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,500 £88,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,999 £54,100
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.90% +6.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,510 84,770 126,878
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,250 53,679 75,658
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,833 £60,775 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +1.29% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +87 63 £65,000 +36.84% 9
London +83 49 £60,000 -10.45% 26
North West +50 47 £65,000 +39.78% 5
Midlands +35 43 £40,000 -15.79% 5
West Midlands +43 30 £42,500 -10.53%
East of England +33 22 £70,000 -
East Midlands -2 13 £40,000 +14.29% 5
Yorkshire +89 11 £85,000 +60.38% 3
South East -9 11 £55,000 +18.92% 9
South West -20 9 £60,000 +9.09% 7
North East +1 5 £60,232 +41.72% 1
Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 82 (41.84%) Azure
2 59 (30.10%) Active Directory
3 51 (26.02%) Microsoft
4 49 (25.00%) ITIL
5 46 (23.47%) Windows
6 39 (19.90%) Agile
7 38 (19.39%) AWS
8 37 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (18.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 35 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
10 31 (15.82%) Python
11 30 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (14.80%) Linux
12 29 (14.80%) Cisco
13 28 (14.29%) PowerShell
13 28 (14.29%) Social Skills
13 28 (14.29%) Windows Server
14 27 (13.78%) Terraform
14 27 (13.78%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (13.78%) Firewall
15 26 (13.27%) DHCP
15 26 (13.27%) DNS
15 26 (13.27%) DevOps
16 24 (12.24%) Change Management
16 24 (12.24%) VoIP
16 24 (12.24%) Kubernetes
16 24 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
17 23 (11.73%) SQL
17 23 (11.73%) Service Delivery
17 23 (11.73%) SCCM

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (5.61%) IIS
2 6 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 82 (41.84%) Azure
2 38 (19.39%) AWS
3 35 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (11.22%) Entra ID
5 19 (9.69%) SaaS
6 18 (9.18%) IaaS
6 18 (9.18%) PaaS
7 13 (6.63%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.06%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.53%) Datadog
13 2 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (1.02%) Azure Storage
13 2 (1.02%) GitHub
14 1 (0.51%) Google Docs
14 1 (0.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.78%) Firewall
2 26 (13.27%) DHCP
2 26 (13.27%) DNS
3 24 (12.24%) VoIP
4 18 (9.18%) WAN
5 14 (7.14%) LAN
5 14 (7.14%) TCP/IP
5 14 (7.14%) VPN
6 12 (6.12%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (5.61%) Network Security
8 7 (3.57%) Internet
9 6 (3.06%) SAN
10 5 (2.55%) BGP
10 5 (2.55%) OSPF
10 5 (2.55%) VLAN
11 4 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 4 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (2.04%) MPLS
11 4 (2.04%) tcpdump
11 4 (2.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.51%) MySQL
4 1 (0.51%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Jenkins
1 4 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (2.04%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.51%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) GitLab
3 1 (0.51%) MLflow
3 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 28 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.18%) Law
3 15 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (7.65%) Finance
4 8 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.53%) Legal
6 3 (1.53%) Marketing
7 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.02%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.51%) Police
8 1 (0.51%) Retail
8 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.06%) Node.js
2 3 (1.53%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.02%) ADO
4 1 (0.51%) .NET
4 1 (0.51%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.51%) boto
4 1 (0.51%) HTML
4 1 (0.51%) OpenID
4 1 (0.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.20%) Fat Client
1 20 (10.20%) Thin Client
2 14 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 14 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (6.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (6.12%) Driving Licence
5 8 (4.08%) IoT
6 7 (3.57%) Clustering
7 6 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.06%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.53%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (23.47%) Windows
2 29 (14.80%) Linux
3 28 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.08%) Windows 10
5 8 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.04%) VMS
8 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.02%) Unix
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.00%) ITIL
2 39 (19.90%) Agile
3 37 (18.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 37 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 27 (13.78%) Cybersecurity
6 26 (13.27%) DevOps
7 24 (12.24%) Change Management
7 24 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (11.73%) Service Delivery
9 21 (10.71%) CI/CD
9 21 (10.71%) Cloud Operations
9 21 (10.71%) Security Operations
10 20 (10.20%) Project Planning
11 18 (9.18%) Asset Management
11 18 (9.18%) SIEM
12 17 (8.67%) High Availability
12 17 (8.67%) ITSM
13 14 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (7.14%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (15.82%) Python
2 28 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.73%) SQL
4 17 (8.67%) Java
5 13 (6.63%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.12%) Perl
7 7 (3.57%) C#
8 6 (3.06%) C++
8 6 (3.06%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.53%) Ruby
10 2 (1.02%) Bash
10 2 (1.02%) PHP
10 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.51%) C
11 1 (0.51%) Go
11 1 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (7.14%) JNCIA
1 14 (7.14%) JNCIP
2 12 (6.12%) A+ Certification
2 12 (6.12%) Network+ Certification
3 8 (4.08%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.08%) Degree
4 5 (2.55%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.55%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.53%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.51%) CCNA
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.51%) HNC
8 1 (0.51%) HND
8 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.51%) MCSE
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.55%) NIST
2 5 (2.55%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.04%) QA
3 4 (2.04%) SLA
4 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.51%) GDPR
4 1 (0.51%) GRC
4 1 (0.51%) GxP
System Software
1 59 (30.10%) Active Directory
2 19 (9.69%) Docker
3 12 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.08%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.51%) Samba
Systems Management
1 27 (13.78%) Terraform
2 24 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 23 (11.73%) SCCM
4 13 (6.63%) Ansible
4 13 (6.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (6.63%) Puppet
5 11 (5.61%) Progress Chef
5 11 (5.61%) Salt
6 7 (3.57%) Opsgenie
7 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (2.04%) CASB
9 2 (1.02%) Grafana
9 2 (1.02%) Nagios
9 2 (1.02%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.51%) DatAdvantage
10 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.51%) QRadar
10 1 (0.51%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 1 (0.51%) WSUS
10 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (26.02%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.80%) Cisco
3 18 (9.18%) VMware
4 17 (8.67%) Veeam
5 14 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 14 (7.14%) Juniper
5 14 (7.14%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.06%) Remedy
7 5 (2.55%) Citrix
7 5 (2.55%) Qualys
7 5 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.04%) Barracuda Networks
8 4 (2.04%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.04%) Cylance
8 4 (2.04%) F5
8 4 (2.04%) McAfee
8 4 (2.04%) Meraki
9 3 (1.53%) Varonis
10 2 (1.02%) CA
10 2 (1.02%) LogRhythm