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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Engineer
Rank 398 385 390
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +5
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 35 54 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.158% 0.227% 0.148%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.167% 0.238% 0.157%
Number of salaries quoted 30 42 32
Average salary £39,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,700 £27,200 £22,850
10% offered a salary of more than £50,500 £49,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +4.47%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20978 22652 21667
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.79% 95.25% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17417 19544 18626
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Operations Engineer Salary Trend

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Berkshire +1 13 £48,500 +6.01%
Hampshire -11 11 £39,000 +11.42%
Surrey -1 9 £50,000 +31.57%
Buckinghamshire -7 2 £44,500 +102.27%
West Sussex - 2 £44,000 -
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 57 (65.52%) Cisco
2 44 (50.57%) Cisco Certification
3 36 (41.38%) CCNA
3 36 (41.38%) Firewall
4 31 (35.63%) Linux
5 28 (32.18%) Windows
6 25 (28.74%) VMware
7 24 (27.59%) Microsoft
8 22 (25.29%) Juniper
9 21 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
10 20 (22.99%) CCNP
11 19 (21.84%) TCP/IP
11 19 (21.84%) MPLS
11 19 (21.84%) F5
12 18 (20.69%) SAN
12 18 (20.69%) WAN
13 16 (18.39%) SQL
14 15 (17.24%) CheckPoint
14 15 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
14 15 (17.24%) OSPF
14 15 (17.24%) BGP
14 15 (17.24%) Telecoms
15 14 (16.09%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (14.94%) Windows Server 2008
16 13 (14.94%) Microsoft Certification
17 12 (13.79%) SLA
17 12 (13.79%) VoIP
17 12 (13.79%) Degree
18 11 (12.64%) VLAN
18 11 (12.64%) Cisco IOS

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 4 (4.598%) COM
2 3 (3.448%) Node.js
3 2 (2.299%) Memcached
4 1 (1.149%) REST
Applications
1 5 (5.747%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 36 (41.38%) Firewall
2 19 (21.84%) TCP/IP
2 19 (21.84%) MPLS
3 18 (20.69%) SAN
3 18 (20.69%) WAN
4 15 (17.24%) OSPF
4 15 (17.24%) BGP
5 14 (16.09%) Cisco ASA
6 12 (13.79%) VoIP
7 11 (12.64%) VLAN
7 11 (12.64%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (10.34%) Ethernet
9 8 (9.195%) DSL
9 8 (9.195%) VPLS
9 8 (9.195%) Network Security
10 7 (8.046%) Cisco PIX
10 7 (8.046%) SSH
10 7 (8.046%) FTP
11 6 (6.897%) Internet
12 5 (5.747%) Frame Relay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) MySQL
2 3 (3.448%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.299%) Big Data
3 2 (2.299%) Redis
4 1 (1.149%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (17.24%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.299%) Retail
2 2 (2.299%) Billing
3 1 (1.149%) Legal
3 1 (1.149%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) SaaS
1 10 (11.49%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (5.747%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.299%) Smartcard
3 2 (2.299%) EMV
3 2 (2.299%) Cryptography
3 2 (2.299%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.149%) Social Media
4 1 (1.149%) Physics
4 1 (1.149%) Clustering
4 1 (1.149%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 31 (35.63%) Linux
2 28 (32.18%) Windows
3 15 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (14.94%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (12.64%) UNIX
6 10 (11.49%) Windows 7
7 3 (3.448%) Windows 2000
8 1 (1.149%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (11.49%) Project Management
2 9 (10.34%) ITIL
3 4 (4.598%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (4.598%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (3.448%) Database Security
4 3 (3.448%) Capacity Management
4 3 (3.448%) Change Control
4 3 (3.448%) Incident Management
4 3 (3.448%) WFM
4 3 (3.448%) Change Management
5 2 (2.299%) CRM
5 2 (2.299%) Migration
5 2 (2.299%) Software Engineering
5 2 (2.299%) Load Balancing
5 2 (2.299%) SIEM
5 2 (2.299%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (1.149%) Analytics
6 1 (1.149%) Big Data Analytics
6 1 (1.149%) Embedded Software Development
6 1 (1.149%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) SQL
2 4 (4.598%) Java
3 3 (3.448%) R
3 3 (3.448%) Scala
3 3 (3.448%) Ruby
3 3 (3.448%) PHP
3 3 (3.448%) C
3 3 (3.448%) C++
3 3 (3.448%) Python
4 2 (2.299%) VBScript
4 2 (2.299%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.299%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.149%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.149%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (50.57%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (41.38%) CCNA
3 20 (22.99%) CCNP
4 13 (14.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (13.79%) Degree
6 11 (12.64%) CCIP
6 11 (12.64%) CCSP
6 11 (12.64%) CCDA
7 10 (11.49%) MCP
7 10 (11.49%) MCSE
7 10 (11.49%) JNCIA
8 8 (9.195%) CCSA
9 5 (5.747%) CCSE
10 4 (4.598%) Security Cleared
11 3 (3.448%) SC Cleared
12 1 (1.149%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.79%) SLA
2 2 (2.299%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.747%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.448%) ProxySG
4 2 (2.299%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.149%) vCloud
5 1 (1.149%) vSphere
5 1 (1.149%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (3.448%) Puppet
2 2 (2.299%) Ganglia
2 2 (2.299%) Zenoss
3 1 (1.149%) Netcool
Vendors
1 57 (65.52%) Cisco
2 25 (28.74%) VMware
3 24 (27.59%) Microsoft
4 22 (25.29%) Juniper
5 19 (21.84%) F5
6 15 (17.24%) CheckPoint
7 7 (8.046%) EMC
8 6 (6.897%) Blue Coat
9 5 (5.747%) McAfee
10 4 (4.598%) Oracle
10 4 (4.598%) NetApp
11 3 (3.448%) Riverbed
11 3 (3.448%) ProCurve
11 3 (3.448%) Genesys
11 3 (3.448%) Nortel
11 3 (3.448%) HP
11 3 (3.448%) Dell
12 2 (2.299%) Tripwire
12 2 (2.299%) ArcSight
12 2 (2.299%) Foundry
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
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