Operations Engineer Contracts in England

Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 549 677
Rank change year-on-year +113 +128 -129
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 105 112 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 77 88
10th Percentile £347 £400 £319
25th Percentile £406 £485 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £632
90th Percentile £688 £706 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 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
London +124 57 £638 -1.77% 27
South East +27 23 £411 -8.67% 12
North of England +20 16 £416 -35.95% 9
North East +24 8 £375 -46.43% 4
North West +5 6 £550 -15.38% 3
Midlands +21 5 £405 -25.00% 6
West Midlands +18 5 £405 -25.00% 1
East of England +17 4 £442 +41.44%
Yorkshire +21 2 - - 2
South West +21 1 £425 -43.33% 6
Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (40.95%) Security Cleared
2 36 (34.29%) Firewall
3 33 (31.43%) DevOps
4 32 (30.48%) Azure
5 29 (27.62%) AWS
6 22 (20.95%) Terraform
6 22 (20.95%) Windows
7 19 (18.10%) PowerShell
8 18 (17.14%) Cisco
8 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
9 17 (16.19%) CI/CD
10 16 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (15.24%) DV Cleared
10 16 (15.24%) Kubernetes
11 15 (14.29%) Active Directory
11 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (13.33%) Public Sector
13 13 (12.38%) Social Skills
13 13 (12.38%) Roadmaps
13 13 (12.38%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (12.38%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
14 12 (11.43%) Agile
14 12 (11.43%) Linux
14 12 (11.43%) SQL
15 11 (10.48%) Juniper
15 11 (10.48%) Incident Management
15 11 (10.48%) Windows Server
16 10 (9.52%) Containerisation
16 10 (9.52%) Docker

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 6 (5.71%) Apache
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.86%) JBoss
3 3 (2.86%) nginx
3 3 (2.86%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.90%) Confluence
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.95%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.48%) Azure
2 29 (27.62%) AWS
3 13 (12.38%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (7.62%) PaaS
6 7 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.71%) IaaS
8 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.76%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.76%) Serverless
9 4 (3.81%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.81%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.86%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.90%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (1.90%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (34.29%) Firewall
2 13 (12.38%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (8.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (7.62%) DNS
4 8 (7.62%) Network Security
5 7 (6.67%) LAN
5 7 (6.67%) VPN
6 6 (5.71%) WAN
6 6 (5.71%) Wireless
7 5 (4.76%) BGP
7 5 (4.76%) EIGRP
7 5 (4.76%) MPLS
7 5 (4.76%) OSPF
8 4 (3.81%) DHCP
8 4 (3.81%) SSL
9 3 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (2.86%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.90%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.90%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.81%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.86%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.95%) Metadata
6 1 (0.95%) MySQL
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Git
2 6 (5.71%) TeamCity
3 4 (3.81%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.86%) GitLab
4 3 (2.86%) JIRA
4 3 (2.86%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.90%) JMeter
5 2 (1.90%) Selenium
5 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
General
1 14 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 13 (12.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.57%) Banking
4 7 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.71%) Finance
6 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.90%) Automotive
7 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Front Office
8 1 (0.95%) Law
8 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) AWS CDK
1 8 (7.62%) React
2 4 (3.81%) Gherkin
2 4 (3.81%) Node.js
2 4 (3.81%) Vue
3 3 (2.86%) .NET
3 3 (2.86%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (1.90%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.90%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.90%) JSON
4 2 (1.90%) Kafka
4 2 (1.90%) RESTful
5 1 (0.95%) LDAP
5 1 (0.95%) Middleware
5 1 (0.95%) OAuth
5 1 (0.95%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.95%) SAML
5 1 (0.95%) XML
5 1 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.81%) PKI
3 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.90%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.90%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.95%) CMDB
5 1 (0.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.95%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.95%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.95%) Insider Threat
5 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.95%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.95%) Windows
2 12 (11.43%) Linux
3 11 (10.48%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.67%) Unix
5 3 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.90%) VMS
6 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.95%) MVS
7 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) DevOps
2 17 (16.19%) CI/CD
3 16 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (12.38%) Roadmaps
6 12 (11.43%) Agile
7 11 (10.48%) Incident Management
8 10 (9.52%) Containerisation
8 10 (9.52%) Migration
8 10 (9.52%) Scrum
8 10 (9.52%) Service Delivery
9 9 (8.57%) ITIL
10 8 (7.62%) Cloud Operations
10 8 (7.62%) High Availability
11 7 (6.67%) Change Management
12 6 (5.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 6 (5.71%) Network Segmentation
12 6 (5.71%) Security Operations
12 6 (5.71%) Server Management
12 6 (5.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.10%) PowerShell
2 12 (11.43%) SQL
3 8 (7.62%) JavaScript
3 8 (7.62%) Python
4 5 (4.76%) Bash
5 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.86%) Go
6 3 (2.86%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.95%) C#
7 1 (0.95%) Java
7 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.95%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (40.95%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.24%) DV Cleared
3 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.52%) CCNP
4 10 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (8.57%) Degree
6 8 (7.62%) JNCIA
7 7 (6.67%) CCNA
8 5 (4.76%) JNCIS
9 4 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.86%) CCSA
11 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.90%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (1.90%) VCAP
11 2 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.95%) Check Point Certification
12 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) SLA
2 3 (2.86%) NIST
3 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.95%) NCSC
4 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.52%) Docker
3 3 (2.86%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.90%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.90%) vSphere
5 1 (0.95%) NFS
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (20.95%) Terraform
2 16 (15.24%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.67%) Ansible
3 7 (6.67%) Grafana
3 7 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.86%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.90%) SCCM
6 2 (1.90%) WSUS
7 1 (0.95%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Cisco
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.48%) Juniper
3 7 (6.67%) Oracle
3 7 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.81%) CheckPoint
5 3 (2.86%) Blue Coat
5 3 (2.86%) CA
5 3 (2.86%) IBM
5 3 (2.86%) PagerDuty
5 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.86%) Splunk
5 3 (2.86%) Temenos
5 3 (2.86%) VMware
6 2 (1.90%) iManage
6 2 (1.90%) Intapp
6 2 (1.90%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.90%) SAP
6 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.90%) Sophos