Operations Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Operations Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £360 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 - 130
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 9 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.45% - 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £280 - £298
25th Percentile £335 - £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - £413
75th Percentile £388 - £478
90th Percentile £427 - £514
South East median daily rate £411 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -13.38% -9.62% +94.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,872 1,708 2,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 94.68% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 990 1,093 1,472
10th Percentile £213 £326 £205
25th Percentile £375 £425 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 57 41
10th Percentile £18.85 £17.34 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £21.65 £17.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +170.88% -1.29%
75th Percentile £70.47 £73.59 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.05 £79.61 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Berkshire

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in Berkshire

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in Berkshire

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in Berkshire

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 7 £375 - 1
Maidenhead - 4 £375 -
Operations Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Operations Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) High Availability
2 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (66.67%) Juniper
3 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) MPLS
4 3 (33.33%) OSPF
4 3 (33.33%) BGP
4 3 (33.33%) EIGRP
4 3 (33.33%) CCNP
4 3 (33.33%) CCNA
4 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (33.33%) JNCIA
4 3 (33.33%) JNCIS
5 2 (22.22%) Azure
5 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Kafka
6 1 (11.11%) Git
6 1 (11.11%) Wireless
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
6 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
6 1 (11.11%) Service Design
6 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Observability

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) BGP
2 3 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 3 (33.33%) MPLS
2 3 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) High Availability
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Observability
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNA
1 3 (33.33%) CCNP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) JNCIA
1 3 (33.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto