Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends in Exeter

Operations Engineer
Devon > Exeter

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Exeter is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Exeter 3.18% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £447 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £526 - -
90th Percentile £529 - -
Devon median daily rate £515 - £685

All Contract IT Job Roles
Exeter

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Exeter. 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 Exeter with a recognized job title 213 73 105
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.82% 91.25% 98.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 27 79
10th Percentile £324 £189 £143
25th Percentile £415 £305 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +39.59% -23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £520 £650
90th Percentile £755 £550 £685
Devon median daily rate £530 £413 £460
% change year-on-year +28.48% -10.33% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £13.17 - -
25th Percentile £13.86 £22.76 -
Median hourly rate £15.00 £22.84 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.33% +82.72% -30.56%
75th Percentile £17.39 £22.92 -
90th Percentile £18.82 - -
Devon median hourly rate £17.72 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year -29.54% -61.31% +67.74%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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 Exeter.

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in Exeter

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Exeter

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Exeter

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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 Exeter region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Handlebars
1 6 (85.71%) Service Delivery
1 6 (85.71%) ServiceNow
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 4 (57.14%) ITSM
2 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 3 (42.86%) Mustache
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Availability Management
5 1 (14.29%) Batch Processing
5 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Change Control
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) LaTeX
5 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) XSLT

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) LaTeX
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Handlebars
2 3 (42.86%) Mustache
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Service Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 4 (57.14%) ITSM
3 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Availability Management
5 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Change Control
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) ServiceNow