Operations Engineer Contracts in East Sussex

Operations Engineer
South East > East Sussex

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in East Sussex is £338, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 0.81% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £336 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - -
75th Percentile £339 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £381 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -15.28% - -14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in East Sussex. 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 East Sussex with a recognized job title 60 64 126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 48.39% 98.46% 98.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 50 68
10th Percentile £297 £306 £285
25th Percentile £369 £380 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -13.95% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £711
90th Percentile £656 £678 £745
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile £18.04 - £13.11
25th Percentile £20.61 £11.00 £13.16
Median hourly rate £26.29 £13.44 £20.98
Median % change year-on-year +95.57% -35.92% +13.38%
75th Percentile £31.24 £15.38 £32.38
90th Percentile £32.12 - £39.05
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £53.03 £49.00
% change year-on-year -47.20% +8.22% +133.33%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in East Sussex

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in East Sussex

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, 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 East Sussex region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle