Operations Engineer Contracts in England

Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £524, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 439 530
Rank change year-on-year +13 +91 +132
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 54 104 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.30% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 76 83
10th Percentile £399 £345 £403
25th Percentile £400 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% -8.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £602 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -8.18% -7.37% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £28.18 £38.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% - -
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £38.50 -
% change year-on-year -26.81% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,538 34,518 47,748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 92.74% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,013 22,926 33,906
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 2,426 1,408
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.96 £14.34
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.64 £35.96 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% -20.09% +100.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.65
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
London +9 30 £575 -11.54% 25
North of England +20 8 £325 -21.94% 14
Midlands +26 7 £469 +15.68% 11
West Midlands +18 7 £469 +15.68% 7
North West +12 7 - - 10
South East +23 3 £425 +3.41% 7
East of England +31 2 £400 -9.50% 2
Yorkshire +14 1 £325 - 3
Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 18 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 17 (31.48%) Python
3 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
4 15 (27.78%) Security Operations
5 13 (24.07%) Firewall
5 13 (24.07%) SIEM
5 13 (24.07%) CI/CD
6 12 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (22.22%) Linux
7 11 (20.37%) AWS
7 11 (20.37%) Ansible
8 10 (18.52%) Palo Alto
8 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
8 10 (18.52%) Agile
8 10 (18.52%) Google
8 10 (18.52%) SOAR
9 9 (16.67%) Hyperautomation
9 9 (16.67%) Incident Response
9 9 (16.67%) ITIL
9 9 (16.67%) Cisco
9 9 (16.67%) DevOps
9 9 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 9 (16.67%) Analytics
9 9 (16.67%) MLOps
9 9 (16.67%) Terraform
10 8 (14.81%) SQL
10 8 (14.81%) Workflow
11 7 (12.96%) Active Directory

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (9.26%) Mattermost
1 5 (9.26%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.85%) nginx
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (35.19%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) AWS
3 6 (11.11%) Azure Stack
4 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.70%) Slack
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.85%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) GCP
6 1 (1.85%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.07%) Firewall
2 5 (9.26%) Skype
2 5 (9.26%) Softphone
2 5 (9.26%) Unified Communications
2 5 (9.26%) WebEx
3 3 (5.56%) DHCP
3 3 (5.56%) DNS
3 3 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.56%) Wireshark
4 2 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.85%) BGP
5 1 (1.85%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.85%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.85%) IPv4
5 1 (1.85%) MPLS
5 1 (1.85%) Network Security
5 1 (1.85%) OSPF
5 1 (1.85%) SNMP
5 1 (1.85%) SSL
5 1 (1.85%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) GitLab
2 2 (3.70%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.85%) MLflow
3 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.70%) Automotive
4 2 (3.70%) Finance
4 2 (3.70%) Military
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) XMPP
2 2 (3.70%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.85%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (1.85%) LangChain
3 1 (1.85%) NumPy
3 1 (1.85%) ONNX
3 1 (1.85%) Pandas
3 1 (1.85%) PySpark
3 1 (1.85%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (1.85%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.85%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 6 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.70%) Infotainment
2 2 (3.70%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.70%) PKI
2 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.85%) Derivative
3 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Windows
3 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.70%) MVS
5 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) Security Operations
2 13 (24.07%) CI/CD
2 13 (24.07%) SIEM
3 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (18.52%) Agile
4 10 (18.52%) SOAR
5 9 (16.67%) Analytics
5 9 (16.67%) DevOps
5 9 (16.67%) Hyperautomation
5 9 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 9 (16.67%) ITIL
5 9 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 9 (16.67%) MLOps
6 8 (14.81%) Workflow
7 7 (12.96%) Containerisation
7 7 (12.96%) Data Science
8 6 (11.11%) DataOps
8 6 (11.11%) Product Strategy
9 5 (9.26%) Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (9.26%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) Python
2 8 (14.81%) SQL
3 7 (12.96%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.11%) Scala
5 2 (3.70%) Java
5 2 (3.70%) REXX
6 1 (1.85%) Bash
6 1 (1.85%) Perl
6 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.85%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.85%) CCNP
6 1 (1.85%) CCSP
6 1 (1.85%) CISSP
6 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) GCIH
6 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.70%) COSHH
1 2 (3.70%) ISO 14001
1 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.70%) SLA
2 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (12.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.56%) Docker
4 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Ansible
2 9 (16.67%) Terraform
3 5 (9.26%) SCOM
4 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.56%) SCCM
5 3 (5.56%) WSUS
6 2 (3.70%) Consul
6 2 (3.70%) Opsview
6 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.85%) Istio
7 1 (1.85%) Podman
7 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.52%) Google
2 10 (18.52%) Palo Alto
3 9 (16.67%) Cisco
4 7 (12.96%) Splunk
5 5 (9.26%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.56%) F5
6 3 (5.56%) NetScout
6 3 (5.56%) Rapid7
6 3 (5.56%) Sophos
7 2 (3.70%) Blue Coat
7 2 (3.70%) BMC
7 2 (3.70%) Broadcom
7 2 (3.70%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.70%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.70%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.85%) Citrix
8 1 (1.85%) Oracle
8 1 (1.85%) Remedy
8 1 (1.85%) VMware