The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Operations Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Operations Engineer
Rank 840 859 861
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 22 39 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.020% 0.032% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.034% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 13 25 11
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +58.33%
UK excluding London average salary £46,500 £47,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-2.10% +58.33%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101523 114414 118763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.78% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84418 98091 100446
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%

Senior Operations Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Operations Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Operations Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer within the UK.

Senior Operations Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Operations Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +4 19 £47,500 -
South East -3 13 £46,500 -2.10%
Surrey +13 7 £50,000 +31.57%
Dorking -12 7 £50,000 +31.57%
London +27 5 £47,500 -24.00%
Scotland - 3 - -
Edinburgh - 3 - -
Crawley - 2 £44,000 -
Milton Keynes - 2 £44,500 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £44,500 -
West Sussex - 2 £44,000 -
East of England +10 1 - -
City of London +7 1 - -
Berkshire -5 1 £48,500 +2.10%
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Harrow - 1 £47,500 -

Senior Operations Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Operations Engineer in their job title.

1 27 (60.00%) VMware
2 23 (51.11%) Linux
2 23 (51.11%) Cisco
3 21 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
5 17 (37.78%) WAN
6 16 (35.56%) Firewall
7 15 (33.33%) VLAN
7 15 (33.33%) MPLS
7 15 (33.33%) OSPF
7 15 (33.33%) BGP
7 15 (33.33%) CCNA
7 15 (33.33%) F5
8 14 (31.11%) Windows
9 13 (28.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (26.67%) CCNP
11 11 (24.44%) CCIP
11 11 (24.44%) SAN
11 11 (24.44%) CCSP
11 11 (24.44%) CCDA
11 11 (24.44%) VoIP
11 11 (24.44%) Cisco IOS
12 10 (22.22%) MCSE
12 10 (22.22%) MySQL
13 9 (20.00%) SQL
13 9 (20.00%) Finance
13 9 (20.00%) Load Balancing
13 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
14 8 (17.78%) Games

Senior Operations Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Operations Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.667%) Django
2 2 (4.444%) LAMP
2 2 (4.444%) .NET
3 1 (2.222%) HTML5
3 1 (2.222%) Web Services
3 1 (2.222%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) IIS
2 3 (6.667%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (4.444%) MS Exchange
3 2 (4.444%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (8.889%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (37.78%) WAN
2 16 (35.56%) Firewall
3 15 (33.33%) VLAN
3 15 (33.33%) MPLS
3 15 (33.33%) OSPF
3 15 (33.33%) BGP
4 11 (24.44%) SAN
4 11 (24.44%) VoIP
4 11 (24.44%) Cisco IOS
5 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
5 7 (15.56%) DNS
6 6 (13.33%) LAN
7 5 (11.11%) Ethernet
7 5 (11.11%) Wireless
7 5 (11.11%) IP Telephony
8 4 (8.889%) Internet
8 4 (8.889%) EIGRP
8 4 (8.889%) HTTP
8 4 (8.889%) Network Security
9 3 (6.667%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) MySQL
2 3 (6.667%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.667%) Redis
2 3 (6.667%) Hadoop
2 3 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.222%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.444%) Subversion
2 1 (2.222%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.222%) Maven
General
1 9 (20.00%) Finance
2 8 (17.78%) Games
3 3 (6.667%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.222%) Banking
4 1 (2.222%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Clustering
2 4 (8.889%) Streaming Video
2 4 (8.889%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (8.889%) iPhone
2 4 (8.889%) SaaS
2 4 (8.889%) iPad
3 3 (6.667%) Replication
4 2 (4.444%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.222%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.222%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.222%) Online Games
5 1 (2.222%) Smartcard
5 1 (2.222%) EMV
5 1 (2.222%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.222%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 23 (51.11%) Linux
2 14 (31.11%) Windows
3 9 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (17.78%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (8.889%) UNIX
5 4 (8.889%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.222%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.222%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (8.889%) Project Management
2 4 (8.889%) ITIL
3 3 (6.667%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (4.444%) Logistics
4 2 (4.444%) Asset Management
4 2 (4.444%) Data Protection
4 2 (4.444%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (2.222%) Security Architecture
5 1 (2.222%) Capacity Management
5 1 (2.222%) Embedded Software Development
5 1 (2.222%) Change Control
5 1 (2.222%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (2.222%) ISMS
5 1 (2.222%) QMS
5 1 (2.222%) Problem Management
5 1 (2.222%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (2.222%) Release Management
5 1 (2.222%) Performance Testing
5 1 (2.222%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) SQL
2 6 (13.33%) Java
3 3 (6.667%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.667%) PHP
3 3 (6.667%) Python
3 3 (6.667%) Ruby
4 2 (4.444%) VBScript
5 1 (2.222%) R
5 1 (2.222%) C
5 1 (2.222%) VB
5 1 (2.222%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 21 (46.67%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (33.33%) CCNA
3 13 (28.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (26.67%) CCNP
5 11 (24.44%) CCIP
5 11 (24.44%) CCSP
5 11 (24.44%) CCDA
6 10 (22.22%) MCSE
7 5 (11.11%) Degree
8 4 (8.889%) CCIE
8 4 (8.889%) MCP
9 2 (4.444%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.889%) SLA
2 1 (2.222%) ISO 9000
2 1 (2.222%) BS7799
2 1 (2.222%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
3 6 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (8.889%) Forefront TMG
5 2 (4.444%) VMware ESX
6 1 (2.222%) Varnish
6 1 (2.222%) SpamAssassin
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) SCOM
2 5 (11.11%) Nagios
3 4 (8.889%) FortiGate
3 4 (8.889%) Puppet
4 3 (6.667%) Munin
5 2 (4.444%) MOM
6 1 (2.222%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (60.00%) VMware
2 23 (51.11%) Cisco
3 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
4 15 (33.33%) F5
5 5 (11.11%) Juniper
6 4 (8.889%) Fortinet
6 4 (8.889%) NetScout
6 4 (8.889%) CheckPoint
6 4 (8.889%) CA
6 4 (8.889%) Akamai
7 1 (2.222%) Remedy
7 1 (2.222%) Dell
7 1 (2.222%) EMC
7 1 (2.222%) Nortel
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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...
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Salary: £1 per annum + Banking Salary + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013