Operations Engineer Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Operations Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 currently tracked.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Operations Engineer
Rank 723 732 778
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +46
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 139 167 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.129% 0.138% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.136% 0.146% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 113 122 94
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,880 £30,000 £24,300
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +4.47%
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All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Operations Engineer Salary Trend

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Operations Engineer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Operations Engineer Salary Histogram

Operations Engineer
Top 30 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 UK 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
England -8 129 £42,250 +20.71%
London +17 64 £50,000 +42.85%
South East -13 35 £39,000 +11.42%
Berkshire +1 13 £48,500 +6.01%
Yorkshire +12 12 £25,500 -43.33%
Hampshire -11 11 £39,000 +11.42%
West Yorkshire +4 10 £25,000 -44.44%
Leeds -7 10 £25,000 -44.44%
South West - 10 £35,000 -
City of London +1 9 £45,000 -
Surrey -1 9 £50,000 +31.57%
Dorking -11 8 £50,000 +31.57%
Edinburgh +12 7 £29,500 -
Scotland +8 7 £29,500 -
West Midlands -15 6 £32,500 -21.21%
Somerset - 5 £37,500 -
Portsmouth - 5 £23,500 -
Basingstoke -23 4 £34,500 -1.42%
Coventry - 4 £32,500 -
East of England -6 3 £37,500 +25.00%
Winchester - 3 £39,000 -
Exeter - 3 £23,450 -
Devon - 3 £23,450 -
Cardiff - 3 £23,000 -
South Wales - 3 £23,000 -
Wales - 3 £23,000 -
Newbury +6 2 £39,000 +50.00%
Hertfordshire +4 2 - -
Buckinghamshire -7 2 £44,500 +102.27%
Milton Keynes - 2 £44,500 -

Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 150 (47.17%) Windows
2 140 (44.03%) Cisco
3 129 (40.57%) VMware
4 123 (38.68%) Linux
5 110 (34.59%) Firewall
6 89 (27.99%) Cisco Certification
7 87 (27.36%) Juniper
8 82 (25.79%) Microsoft
9 81 (25.47%) SAN
10 78 (24.53%) VMware Infrastructure
11 71 (22.33%) CCNA
12 69 (21.70%) TCP/IP
12 69 (21.70%) Windows Server 2008
13 54 (16.98%) MPLS
14 52 (16.35%) ITIL
15 50 (15.72%) DNS
16 49 (15.41%) Degree
17 46 (14.47%) Puppet
18 45 (14.15%) Red Hat
19 43 (13.52%) SQL
19 43 (13.52%) WAN
20 42 (13.21%) HP
21 41 (12.89%) Ruby
22 40 (12.58%) UNIX
23 39 (12.26%) Telecoms
23 39 (12.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
24 36 (11.32%) Finance
24 36 (11.32%) Perl
24 36 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
24 36 (11.32%) CCNP

Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 17 (5.346%) .NET
2 13 (4.088%) Web Services
3 9 (2.830%) ASP.NET
4 5 (1.572%) LAMP
4 5 (1.572%) Django
5 4 (1.258%) COM
6 3 (0.943%) Middleware
6 3 (0.943%) Node.js
7 2 (0.629%) LINQ
7 2 (0.629%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.629%) NHibernate
7 2 (0.629%) Memcached
7 2 (0.629%) HTML5
7 2 (0.629%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (0.629%) VCL
8 1 (0.314%) XML
8 1 (0.314%) JMX
8 1 (0.314%) REST
8 1 (0.314%) Resque
8 1 (0.314%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 34 (10.69%) IIS
2 16 (5.031%) Apache
3 10 (3.145%) nginx
4 8 (2.516%) Amazon AWS
4 8 (2.516%) Tomcat
4 8 (2.516%) SharePoint
5 7 (2.201%) MS Exchange
6 6 (1.887%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.572%) Exchange Server 2007
7 5 (1.572%) Apache Solr
8 4 (1.258%) Exchange Server 2003
9 3 (0.943%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.314%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.314%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.314%) Drupal
10 1 (0.314%) Jetty
10 1 (0.314%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.314%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 28 (8.805%) MS Excel
2 11 (3.459%) MS Office
3 8 (2.516%) Google Apps
4 1 (0.314%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.572%) BASE24
2 3 (0.943%) RMDS
3 1 (0.314%) INSURE/90
Communications & Networking
1 110 (34.59%) Firewall
2 81 (25.47%) SAN
3 69 (21.70%) TCP/IP
4 54 (16.98%) MPLS
5 50 (15.72%) DNS
6 43 (13.52%) WAN
7 36 (11.32%) OSPF
8 35 (11.01%) BGP
9 32 (10.06%) Ethernet
10 29 (9.119%) LAN
11 28 (8.805%) HTTP
11 28 (8.805%) iSCSI
12 27 (8.491%) VPN
13 26 (8.176%) Internet
14 19 (5.975%) VLAN
15 18 (5.660%) Wireless
16 17 (5.346%) SDH
16 17 (5.346%) VPLS
16 17 (5.346%) Wireshark
17 15 (4.717%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.69%) MySQL
2 32 (10.06%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.830%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.516%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.516%) Redis
5 7 (2.201%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.887%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (0.629%) Big Data
7 2 (0.629%) DTS
8 1 (0.314%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.314%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 1 (0.314%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 14 (4.403%) Subversion
2 13 (4.088%) Git (software)
3 11 (3.459%) TeamCity
4 10 (3.145%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.572%) Redmine
6 3 (0.943%) GitHub
6 3 (0.943%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.629%) Capistrano
8 1 (0.314%) Maven
8 1 (0.314%) Hudson
8 1 (0.314%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.314%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.314%) Phing
8 1 (0.314%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.314%) RSpec
General
1 39 (12.26%) Telecoms
2 36 (11.32%) Finance
3 26 (8.176%) Banking
4 15 (4.717%) Games
5 8 (2.516%) Investment Banking
6 6 (1.887%) Electronics
7 5 (1.572%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.258%) Law
9 2 (0.629%) Music
9 2 (0.629%) Music Industry
9 2 (0.629%) Publishing
9 2 (0.629%) Retail
9 2 (0.629%) Billing
10 1 (0.314%) Legal
10 1 (0.314%) Advertising
10 1 (0.314%) Marketing
10 1 (0.314%) Online Betting
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.233%) Computer Science
2 20 (6.289%) Clustering
3 13 (4.088%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.088%) Cloud Computing
3 13 (4.088%) Hedge funds
4 10 (3.145%) SaaS
5 9 (2.830%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (2.830%) Open Source
6 8 (2.516%) iPhone
6 8 (2.516%) iPad
6 8 (2.516%) Digital Media
6 8 (2.516%) IaaS
6 8 (2.516%) Streaming Video
7 7 (2.201%) PaaS
8 6 (1.887%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.258%) Replication
9 4 (1.258%) Blackberry
10 3 (0.943%) Cryptography
10 3 (0.943%) Mathematics
11 2 (0.629%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 150 (47.17%) Windows
2 123 (38.68%) Linux
3 69 (21.70%) Windows Server 2008
4 40 (12.58%) UNIX
5 39 (12.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 34 (10.69%) Windows Server 2003
7 17 (5.346%) Debian
8 10 (3.145%) Windows 7
9 6 (1.887%) VMS
10 5 (1.572%) Solaris
10 5 (1.572%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.258%) CentOS
11 4 (1.258%) Windows 2000
12 3 (0.943%) Windows 2000 Server
13 1 (0.314%) AIX
13 1 (0.314%) Windows XP
13 1 (0.314%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.314%) Gentoo
13 1 (0.314%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.314%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (16.35%) ITIL
2 25 (7.862%) Load Balancing
3 23 (7.233%) Problem Management
4 19 (5.975%) Change Management
5 18 (5.660%) Incident Management
6 14 (4.403%) Capacity Management
7 13 (4.088%) Service Delivery
7 13 (4.088%) Project Management
8 10 (3.145%) Network Management
9 9 (2.830%) Asset Management
9 9 (2.830%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (2.830%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (2.201%) CRM
10 7 (2.201%) E-Commerce
10 7 (2.201%) Configuration Management
10 7 (2.201%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (2.201%) Build Automation
10 7 (2.201%) Change Control
11 5 (1.572%) Service Management
11 5 (1.572%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (13.52%) SQL
2 41 (12.89%) Ruby
3 36 (11.32%) Perl
4 33 (10.38%) PHP
5 30 (9.434%) Bash shell
6 19 (5.975%) Java
7 14 (4.403%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.088%) Python
9 7 (2.201%) C++
10 6 (1.887%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.572%) C
12 3 (0.943%) C#
12 3 (0.943%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.943%) R
12 3 (0.943%) Scala
13 2 (0.629%) Clojure
13 2 (0.629%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.629%) VBScript
14 1 (0.314%) VB
14 1 (0.314%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 89 (27.99%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (22.33%) CCNA
3 49 (15.41%) Degree
4 36 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 36 (11.32%) CCNP
5 29 (9.119%) MCSE
6 18 (5.660%) CCIP
7 15 (4.717%) JNCIA
8 12 (3.774%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (3.459%) CCSP
9 11 (3.459%) CCDA
10 10 (3.145%) MCP
11 8 (2.516%) CCSA
12 7 (2.201%) Security Cleared
13 6 (1.887%) SC Cleared
13 6 (1.887%) CCIE
14 5 (1.572%) CCSE
15 3 (0.943%) MCSA
15 3 (0.943%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.943%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.491%) SLA
2 7 (2.201%) QA
3 2 (0.629%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.314%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.314%) BS7799
System Software
1 78 (24.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (10.69%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.604%) vSphere
4 20 (6.289%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (6.289%) Hyper-V
5 15 (4.717%) Forefront TMG
6 12 (3.774%) Varnish
6 12 (3.774%) VMware ESX
7 7 (2.201%) ProxySG
7 7 (2.201%) Samba
7 7 (2.201%) XenDesktop
8 6 (1.887%) XenApp
9 5 (1.572%) NFS
9 5 (1.572%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.629%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.629%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.314%) SpamAssassin
11 1 (0.314%) vCloud
11 1 (0.314%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.314%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 46 (14.47%) Puppet
2 21 (6.604%) SCOM
3 18 (5.660%) Nagios
4 11 (3.459%) ZABBIX
5 8 (2.516%) SolarWinds Orion
6 5 (1.572%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.572%) ServiceCenter
6 5 (1.572%) Munin
7 3 (0.943%) Backup Exec
7 3 (0.943%) WSUS
7 3 (0.943%) SCCM
7 3 (0.943%) Ganglia
7 3 (0.943%) Zenoss
8 2 (0.629%) MOM
9 1 (0.314%) Netcool
9 1 (0.314%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.314%) Splunk
Vendors
1 140 (44.03%) Cisco
2 129 (40.57%) VMware
3 87 (27.36%) Juniper
4 82 (25.79%) Microsoft
5 45 (14.15%) Red Hat
6 42 (13.21%) HP
7 29 (9.119%) F5
8 26 (8.176%) CheckPoint
9 19 (5.975%) Dell
9 19 (5.975%) NetApp
10 18 (5.660%) Citrix
11 16 (5.031%) EMC
12 11 (3.459%) Blue Coat
13 10 (3.145%) Brocade
13 10 (3.145%) Foundry
14 9 (2.830%) Google
14 9 (2.830%) SolarWinds
15 8 (2.516%) Akamai
16 7 (2.201%) Oracle
16 7 (2.201%) Fortinet
Network Operations Engineer
Southampton, South East
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Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Network Operations Engineer
Southampton, South East
Strong grasp of TCP/IP, routing, switching, cabling and internet protocols such as BGP, ISIS, OSPF. In depth knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows environments. Advanced knowledge of...
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Network Operations Engineer
Southampton, South East
Work with Cisco, Juniper and Foundry switches/routers, Netscreen and Juniper firewalls, and Foundry load balancers on a daily basis. Participate in projects locally and remotely involving, but...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Web Operations Engineer (Web Op’s)
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: 22 May 2013
Operations Engineer - Data Centre Implementation
Woking, Surrey
Good knowledge of UNIX. Knowledge of firewall rules... PRTG, Nagios. Strong MS Office skills, particularly Outlook, Excel, and Word... Essential Skills and Knowledge - Data Centre Operations - Networks specific...
Fidessa
Posted: 20 May 2013
Linux Operations Engineer, RedHat, Global Company
City, London
To develop and maintain operational guidelines for the maintenance and support of the infrastructure - To assist with incident and problem management to resolve issues related to Linux, Network,...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + Good benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Senior Network Operations Engineer (CCIE)
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
Network Engineer - Network Operations Engineer, Juniper,Support
London
Key responsibilities include:*Troubleshooting fault tickets, issue resolution and fault escalation complex technical issues, from receipt to closure with the customers *Troubleshooting faults onsite and proactively eliminating downtime *...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013
Network Engineer - Network Operations Engineer, Juniper,Support
London
Product knowledge in: Juniper M/T, Security and Network Management tools... *Excellent written and verbal English MUST BE AN EU CITIZEN AND ELIGIBLE TO LIVE AND WORK IN...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Systems Engineer - Operations Engineer
Leeds, Yorkshire
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IQ Resourcing
Salary: £24000 - £28000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013
Junior Technical Operations Engineer
London
You will need to have experience in developing and maintaining technical documentation such as knowledge base articles, technical procedures, software licences and maintenance contracts. Experience required in: Setup...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £22000 - £25000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Operations Engineer
Reading, Berkshire
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Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
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Hampshire
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Salary: £36k - 42k per year + on-call allowance
Posted: 24 May 2013
Technical Operations Shift Engineer
Somerset, South West
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Salary: to £35K + 5% bonus + 20% shift allowance
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Berkshire
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Salary: £30000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Jnr IT Operations Analyst - Engineer Banking (Linux Unix VMS)
London
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Salary: £20000 to £25000 per annum
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Posted: 20 May 2013
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