Operations Engineer Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Operations Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Buckinghamshire is £411 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 43 76 66
Rank change year-on-year +33 -10 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 8 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.64% 0.11% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 0.12% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 £533 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £565 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% - -
75th Percentile £436 £598 -
90th Percentile £447 - -
South East median daily rate £411 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -13.38% -9.62% +94.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 461 826 789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 93.54% 97.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 670 591
10th Percentile £225 £247 £200
25th Percentile £398 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £468
Median % change year-on-year - +1.50% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £555
90th Percentile £670 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 3 40
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.23 £10.73
25th Percentile £17.64 £11.33 £10.77
Median hourly rate £23.75 £13.16 £12.28
Median % change year-on-year +80.47% +7.21% -12.32%
75th Percentile £29.38 £28.46 £21.75
90th Percentile £48.75 £37.63 £27.80
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 Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +30 3 £431 -23.68% 1
Operations Engineer
South East

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (50.00%) ITIL
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Release Management
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (25.00%) vSphere
6 2 (25.00%) VCAP
6 2 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
6 2 (25.00%) VSAN
6 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (25.00%) PKI
6 2 (25.00%) Degree
6 2 (25.00%) ITSM
6 2 (25.00%) VMware
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (25.00%) DHCP
6 2 (25.00%) DNS
6 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 1 (12.50%) Windows
7 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (12.50%) Ansible
7 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) VSAN
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Release Management
4 2 (25.00%) ITSM
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) VCAP
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) VMware