Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Operations Engineer
England > East of England

As of 29 June 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Operations Engineer daily rate in the East of England.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 86 110
Rank change year-on-year -25 +24 0
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.22% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £395 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £442
Median % change year-on-year - -9.50% +41.44%
75th Percentile - £405 £451
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £368 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -22.63% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £32.00 - -
England median hourly rate £32.00 £28.18 £38.50
% change year-on-year +13.56% -26.81% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 2,036 930 1,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 86.51% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 461 741
10th Percentile £191 £190 £206
25th Percentile £353 £325 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £442
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +10.29% -6.95%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 184 596
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.95 £16.65
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.79% +2.87%
75th Percentile £65.88 £66.63 £64.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.70 £70.63
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -10.23%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Operations Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Operations Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 29 June 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 2 - - 1
Norfolk - 1 - - 1
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 29 June 2026, Operations Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) QA
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Behavioural Change
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CATIA
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) ECSS
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Informatica
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Behavioural Change
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) ECSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) NCR
1 1 (33.33%) Talend