Operations Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 595 660 684
Rank change year-on-year +65 +24 -92
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 160 86 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 121 61 115
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £28,825
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,724
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year -1.71% +8.13% +4.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,720 52,840 68,639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,860 30,029 42,498
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +88 62 £62,732 +32.07% 8
North West +42 46 £65,000 +39.78% 5
Midlands +23 42 £40,000 -15.79% 6
West Midlands +26 27 £42,500 -10.53% 1
East of England +25 21 £70,000 -
East Midlands +5 15 £40,000 +14.29% 5
Scotland -56 13 £33,000 -11.74% 1
South West -25 11 £57,500 +9.52% 4
Yorkshire +78 10 £60,000 +13.21% 1
South East -25 9 £55,000 +22.22% 7
North East -2 6 £60,000 +41.18% 2
Wales - 3 £28,750 -
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 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 UK excluding London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (38.75%) Azure
2 51 (31.88%) Active Directory
3 45 (28.13%) Microsoft
4 41 (25.63%) ITIL
4 41 (25.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (23.75%) Windows
6 35 (21.88%) Cisco
7 30 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (16.25%) Agile
10 26 (16.25%) VoIP
11 24 (15.00%) Change Management
11 24 (15.00%) SQL
12 23 (14.38%) AWS
12 23 (14.38%) Windows Server
13 22 (13.75%) Service Delivery
14 21 (13.13%) Firewall
14 21 (13.13%) SCCM
14 21 (13.13%) PowerShell
14 21 (13.13%) Cloud Operations
15 20 (12.50%) Fat Client
15 20 (12.50%) Project Planning
15 20 (12.50%) Thin Client
16 19 (11.88%) Social Skills
17 18 (11.25%) DNS
17 18 (11.25%) DHCP
17 18 (11.25%) Asset Management
17 18 (11.25%) Entra ID
18 17 (10.63%) Security Operations

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (8.13%) IIS
2 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 62 (38.75%) Azure
2 28 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (14.38%) AWS
4 18 (11.25%) Entra ID
5 13 (8.13%) IaaS
5 13 (8.13%) PaaS
6 12 (7.50%) SaaS
7 10 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 8 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.50%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.25%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.25%) VoIP
2 21 (13.13%) Firewall
3 18 (11.25%) DHCP
3 18 (11.25%) DNS
4 16 (10.00%) WAN
5 12 (7.50%) LAN
5 12 (7.50%) VPN
6 9 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (5.00%) SAN
8 6 (3.75%) Network Security
9 5 (3.13%) Internet
9 5 (3.13%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.13%) VLAN
10 4 (2.50%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.63%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.63%) FTP
11 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.63%) OSPF
11 1 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.25%) MySQL
4 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (2.50%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.88%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.25%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.25%) JMeter
3 2 (1.25%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.63%) GitLab
General
1 19 (11.88%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.00%) Law
3 15 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.75%) Finance
6 3 (1.88%) Marketing
7 2 (1.25%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.25%) Legal
7 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.63%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.75%) Node.js
2 2 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.63%) .NET
3 1 (0.63%) ADO
3 1 (0.63%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.50%) Fat Client
1 20 (12.50%) Thin Client
2 13 (8.13%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.63%) Driving Licence
4 8 (5.00%) Clustering
4 8 (5.00%) IoT
5 7 (4.38%) Renewable Energy
6 6 (3.75%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.88%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.25%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.63%) CMDB
11 1 (0.63%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.75%) Windows
2 23 (14.38%) Windows Server
3 17 (10.63%) Linux
4 8 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.75%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.50%) VMS
7 2 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.63%) Unix
8 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 41 (25.63%) ITIL
2 30 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 26 (16.25%) Agile
5 24 (15.00%) Change Management
6 22 (13.75%) Service Delivery
7 21 (13.13%) Cloud Operations
8 20 (12.50%) Project Planning
9 18 (11.25%) Asset Management
10 17 (10.63%) Security Operations
11 16 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (9.38%) High Availability
13 14 (8.75%) SIEM
14 13 (8.13%) DevOps
15 12 (7.50%) Customer Service
16 11 (6.88%) Infrastructure as Code
16 11 (6.88%) ITSM
17 10 (6.25%) Data Science
17 10 (6.25%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.00%) SQL
2 21 (13.13%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.50%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.63%) Python
5 7 (4.38%) C#
6 6 (3.75%) C++
6 6 (3.75%) Java
6 6 (3.75%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.50%) Bash
8 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.63%) C
9 1 (0.63%) Go
9 1 (0.63%) PHP
9 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (8.75%) JNCIA
1 14 (8.75%) JNCIP
2 9 (5.63%) A+ Certification
2 9 (5.63%) Network+ Certification
3 6 (3.75%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.88%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.25%) Degree
6 2 (1.25%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) CCNA
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.63%) MCSE
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.13%) NIST
3 4 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) GRC
4 1 (0.63%) GxP
System Software
1 51 (31.88%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 8 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.88%) Docker
5 1 (0.63%) Samba
Systems Management
1 21 (13.13%) SCCM
2 9 (5.63%) Terraform
3 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.38%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.38%) Opsgenie
5 3 (1.88%) Ansible
6 2 (1.25%) CASB
6 2 (1.25%) Nagios
6 2 (1.25%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.63%) DatAdvantage
7 1 (0.63%) Grafana
7 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.63%) Puppet
7 1 (0.63%) QRadar
7 1 (0.63%) Stealthwatch
7 1 (0.63%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 45 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 35 (21.88%) Cisco
3 14 (8.75%) Fortinet
3 14 (8.75%) Juniper
3 14 (8.75%) Palo Alto
3 14 (8.75%) Veeam
3 14 (8.75%) VMware
4 10 (6.25%) Meraki
5 6 (3.75%) Remedy
6 4 (2.50%) Barracuda Networks
6 4 (2.50%) Citrix
6 4 (2.50%) CyberArk
6 4 (2.50%) Cylance
6 4 (2.50%) McAfee
7 3 (1.88%) Qualys
7 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.88%) Varonis
8 2 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.25%) Forcepoint
8 2 (1.25%) Splunk