Operations Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Operations Engineer salary in the Midlands is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 299 325
Rank change year-on-year +21 +26 -52
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 43 16 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.36% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.20% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 33 10 18
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £37,199 £40,625 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £48,438
90th Percentile £84,500 £58,750 £56,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,168
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.23% +5.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 11,374 8,155 10,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 89.65% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,425 4,582 7,032
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,512 £27,571
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
West Midlands +29 27 £42,500 -10.53% 2
East Midlands +3 16 £40,000 +14.29% 6
Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 Midlands region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (60.47%) Windows
2 22 (51.16%) Windows Server
2 22 (51.16%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (48.84%) Azure
4 18 (41.86%) Active Directory
5 16 (37.21%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (37.21%) SQL
6 15 (34.88%) High Availability
6 15 (34.88%) Law
7 14 (32.56%) Firewall
7 14 (32.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
8 13 (30.23%) SQL Server
8 13 (30.23%) IIS
9 12 (27.91%) ITIL
9 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
10 11 (25.58%) Cisco
10 11 (25.58%) Service Delivery
10 11 (25.58%) Agile
10 11 (25.58%) PowerShell
10 11 (25.58%) Customer Service
11 10 (23.26%) Project Planning
11 10 (23.26%) Fat Client
11 10 (23.26%) SCCM
11 10 (23.26%) Change Management
11 10 (23.26%) Thin Client
11 10 (23.26%) VoIP
12 9 (20.93%) VPN
12 9 (20.93%) SAN
12 9 (20.93%) Clustering

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 13 (30.23%) IIS
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) SaaS
3 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (32.56%) Firewall
2 10 (23.26%) VoIP
3 9 (20.93%) SAN
3 9 (20.93%) VPN
4 2 (4.65%) DHCP
4 2 (4.65%) DNS
5 1 (2.33%) Internet
5 1 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (9.30%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (37.21%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (34.88%) Law
3 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Fat Client
1 10 (23.26%) Thin Client
2 9 (20.93%) Clustering
3 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Windows
2 22 (51.16%) Windows Server
3 7 (16.28%) Linux
4 4 (9.30%) VMS
4 4 (9.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (34.88%) High Availability
3 14 (32.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (27.91%) ITIL
5 11 (25.58%) Agile
5 11 (25.58%) Customer Service
5 11 (25.58%) Service Delivery
6 10 (23.26%) Change Management
6 10 (23.26%) Project Planning
7 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (20.93%) Patch Management
8 7 (16.28%) Asset Management
9 6 (13.95%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (13.95%) Proactive Monitoring
10 5 (11.63%) DevOps
10 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
11 4 (9.30%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (9.30%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) SQL
2 11 (25.58%) PowerShell
3 7 (16.28%) Python
4 6 (13.95%) C#
4 6 (13.95%) C++
4 6 (13.95%) Java
4 6 (13.95%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
System Software
1 18 (41.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) SCCM
2 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
2 11 (25.58%) Cisco
3 7 (16.28%) VMware
4 6 (13.95%) Remedy
5 4 (9.30%) Barracuda Networks
5 4 (9.30%) CyberArk
5 4 (9.30%) Cylance
5 4 (9.30%) McAfee
5 4 (9.30%) Meraki
5 4 (9.30%) Veeam