The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the 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 17 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Engineer
Rank 546 542 610
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +68
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 63 98 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.144% 0.182% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.155% 0.194% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 55 69 24
Average salary £51,000 £37,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.00% +2.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £52,500 £55,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40744 50505 53832
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.86% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 34331 43869 45250
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London Operations Engineer Salary Trend

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Operations Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
City of London +7 10 £40,000 -11.11%
Chiswick - 1 £25,000 -
Harrow - 1 £47,500 -
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 90 (58.44%) Windows
2 88 (57.14%) VMware
3 76 (49.35%) Linux
4 58 (37.66%) Juniper
4 58 (37.66%) Firewall
5 54 (35.06%) SAN
6 50 (32.47%) VMware Infrastructure
7 49 (31.82%) Cisco
8 46 (29.87%) Windows Server 2008
9 43 (27.92%) DNS
10 42 (27.27%) Puppet
11 40 (25.97%) Red Hat
12 38 (24.68%) HP
12 38 (24.68%) Microsoft
13 36 (23.38%) TCP/IP
13 36 (23.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 35 (22.73%) Ruby
14 35 (22.73%) Perl
14 35 (22.73%) IIS
15 33 (21.43%) Finance
16 31 (20.13%) Bash shell
17 30 (19.48%) ITIL
18 29 (18.83%) PHP
19 28 (18.18%) iSCSI
20 26 (16.88%) Banking
21 25 (16.23%) HTTP
21 25 (16.23%) Active Directory
22 21 (13.64%) Degree
22 21 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
22 21 (13.64%) SQL Server

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 15 (9.740%) .NET
2 9 (5.844%) ASP.NET
2 9 (5.844%) Web Services
3 5 (3.247%) LAMP
4 4 (2.597%) HTML5
5 3 (1.948%) Middleware
5 3 (1.948%) JMX
6 2 (1.299%) Zend Framework
6 2 (1.299%) LINQ
6 2 (1.299%) Gearman
6 2 (1.299%) Resque
6 2 (1.299%) YAML
6 2 (1.299%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (1.299%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.299%) NHibernate
6 2 (1.299%) JSON
6 2 (1.299%) XML
6 2 (1.299%) VCL
6 2 (1.299%) HTML
7 1 (0.649%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 35 (22.73%) IIS
2 14 (9.091%) Apache
3 11 (7.143%) nginx
4 6 (3.896%) Apache Solr
5 5 (3.247%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.299%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.299%) MS Exchange
6 2 (1.299%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.299%) CloudStack
6 2 (1.299%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.299%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.299%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.649%) Drupal
7 1 (0.649%) Jetty
7 1 (0.649%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.649%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.649%) Windows Azure
7 1 (0.649%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 15 (9.740%) MS Excel
2 7 (4.545%) Google Apps
3 2 (1.299%) MS Office
4 1 (0.649%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.247%) BASE24
2 3 (1.948%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (37.66%) Firewall
2 54 (35.06%) SAN
3 43 (27.92%) DNS
4 36 (23.38%) TCP/IP
5 28 (18.18%) iSCSI
6 25 (16.23%) HTTP
7 20 (12.99%) MPLS
8 17 (11.04%) Wireshark
9 15 (9.740%) LAN
10 14 (9.091%) Ethernet
11 13 (8.442%) VPN
11 13 (8.442%) WAN
12 12 (7.792%) OSPF
12 12 (7.792%) tcpdump
13 11 (7.143%) BGP
14 10 (6.494%) SNMP
14 10 (6.494%) Wireless
15 9 (5.844%) NetScaler
15 9 (5.844%) Broadband
16 8 (5.195%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 16 (10.39%) MySQL
3 5 (3.247%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (1.948%) Redis
4 3 (1.948%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.299%) Amazon DynamoDB
5 2 (1.299%) DTS
6 1 (0.649%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.649%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 14 (9.091%) Subversion
2 13 (8.442%) Jenkins
3 12 (7.792%) Git (software)
4 8 (5.195%) TeamCity
5 5 (3.247%) Redmine
6 3 (1.948%) GitHub
6 3 (1.948%) Maven
6 3 (1.948%) Capistrano
7 2 (1.299%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.299%) RSpec
7 2 (1.299%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.299%) Phing
8 1 (0.649%) Hudson
8 1 (0.649%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.649%) Mercurial
General
1 33 (21.43%) Finance
2 26 (16.88%) Banking
3 17 (11.04%) Telecoms
4 13 (8.442%) Games
5 8 (5.195%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.247%) Electronics
7 4 (2.597%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.597%) Law
8 2 (1.299%) Publishing
8 2 (1.299%) Music
8 2 (1.299%) Music Industry
8 2 (1.299%) Online Betting
9 1 (0.649%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.69%) Clustering
2 13 (8.442%) Hedge funds
3 11 (7.143%) Computer Science
4 10 (6.494%) iPhone
4 10 (6.494%) iPad
4 10 (6.494%) Streaming Video
5 9 (5.844%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (5.844%) Open Source
6 8 (5.195%) Digital Media
6 8 (5.195%) IaaS
7 7 (4.545%) PaaS
7 7 (4.545%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.299%) Firmware
8 2 (1.299%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.299%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.299%) Physics
8 2 (1.299%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.299%) Blog
8 2 (1.299%) Online Games
9 1 (0.649%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 90 (58.44%) Windows
2 76 (49.35%) Linux
3 46 (29.87%) Windows Server 2008
4 36 (23.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (11.69%) Debian
6 17 (11.04%) UNIX
7 10 (6.494%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (3.247%) VMS
8 5 (3.247%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.597%) CentOS
10 2 (1.299%) Gentoo
10 2 (1.299%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.649%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.649%) AIX
11 1 (0.649%) Solaris
11 1 (0.649%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (19.48%) ITIL
2 18 (11.69%) Load Balancing
2 18 (11.69%) Problem Management
3 8 (5.195%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (5.195%) E-Commerce
3 8 (5.195%) Configuration Management
3 8 (5.195%) Incident Management
4 7 (4.545%) Service Delivery
4 7 (4.545%) Network Management
4 7 (4.545%) Build Automation
5 5 (3.247%) Capacity Management
5 5 (3.247%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (2.597%) Change Control
6 4 (2.597%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (1.948%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (1.948%) Waterfall
7 3 (1.948%) Release Management
7 3 (1.948%) Change Management
7 3 (1.948%) Project Management
7 3 (1.948%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (22.73%) Perl
1 35 (22.73%) Ruby
2 31 (20.13%) Bash shell
3 29 (18.83%) PHP
4 20 (12.99%) SQL
5 13 (8.442%) Java
6 6 (3.896%) T-SQL
6 6 (3.896%) Python
6 6 (3.896%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.247%) C++
8 4 (2.597%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.948%) C#
10 2 (1.299%) C
10 2 (1.299%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.299%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 21 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
1 21 (13.64%) Degree
2 20 (12.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (11.69%) MCSE
4 14 (9.091%) CCNA
5 11 (7.143%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (3.247%) JNCIA
7 3 (1.948%) JNCIS
7 3 (1.948%) CCIE
8 2 (1.299%) CCNP
9 1 (0.649%) MCSA
9 1 (0.649%) HNC
9 1 (0.649%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.649%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.247%) SLA
1 5 (3.247%) QA
2 1 (0.649%) ISO 9000
2 1 (0.649%) BS7799
System Software
1 50 (32.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (16.23%) Active Directory
3 20 (12.99%) Hyper-V
4 17 (11.04%) vSphere
4 17 (11.04%) Forefront TMG
4 17 (11.04%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (8.442%) Varnish
6 9 (5.844%) VMware ESX
7 8 (5.195%) XenDesktop
8 7 (4.545%) Samba
9 5 (3.247%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (3.247%) XenApp
10 4 (2.597%) ProxySG
11 3 (1.948%) NFS
12 2 (1.299%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.649%) SpamAssassin
13 1 (0.649%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 1 (0.649%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.649%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 42 (27.27%) Puppet
2 17 (11.04%) SCOM
3 11 (7.143%) ZABBIX
4 9 (5.844%) Nagios
5 8 (5.195%) SolarWinds Orion
6 5 (3.247%) ServiceCenter
7 3 (1.948%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.649%) Splunk
8 1 (0.649%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.649%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.649%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.649%) Munin
8 1 (0.649%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 88 (57.14%) VMware
2 58 (37.66%) Juniper
3 49 (31.82%) Cisco
4 40 (25.97%) Red Hat
5 38 (24.68%) Microsoft
5 38 (24.68%) HP
6 17 (11.04%) Citrix
7 13 (8.442%) NetApp
8 10 (6.494%) Akamai
9 9 (5.844%) SolarWinds
9 9 (5.844%) Dell
9 9 (5.844%) EMC
10 8 (5.195%) F5
10 8 (5.195%) Brocade
11 7 (4.545%) Google
12 5 (3.247%) Blue Coat
12 5 (3.247%) Nimsoft
12 5 (3.247%) Foundry
13 4 (2.597%) Fortinet
13 4 (2.597%) CheckPoint
London
role, with particular exposure to Internet delivery "Excellent all-round IT skills in particular Windows Server "Thorough understanding of networks in general and of TCP/IP and the...
Premier Group Recruitment
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00
Posted: 16 May 2013
West London
In-depth experience of Microsoft web technologies spanning .NET, IIS 7, SQL Server... - Advanced working knowledge of non-web Internet protocols and technologies, including FTP, SMTP, DNS, SSL...
Trent Pearce
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 15 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