Senior Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £548, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 542 482 543
Rank change year-on-year -60 +61 +147
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 8 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.024% 0.012% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.012% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £543 - £528
25th Percentile £544 £581 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £588 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.81% -16.07% +19.66%
75th Percentile £549 £594 -
90th Percentile £550 - -
UK median daily rate £548 £588 £700
% change year-on-year -6.81% -16.07% +18.14%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 31,053 24,121 35,236
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 93.07% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,752 15,028 23,675
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,981 713 2,112
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.92 £13.19
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.63
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.44
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.54 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.55% -4.17% -2.51%

Senior Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Senior Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Operations Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Operations Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior 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 Senior Operations Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
London - 4 £548 -
Midlands - 3 - - 1
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
North of England -58 2 - - 4
Yorkshire - 2 - - 1
Senior Operations Engineer
UK

Senior Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 February 2026, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) RBAC
3 4 (50.00%) Runbook
3 4 (50.00%) Terraform
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (37.50%) Firewall
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) VPN
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2

Senior Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
4 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (25.00%) Azure API Management
5 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
6 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) DKIM
3 1 (12.50%) DMARC
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) RBAC
2 4 (50.00%) Runbook
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) API Management
4 2 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (12.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Argo
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (25.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Zscaler