Operations Engineer Contracts in London

Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £575, 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 324 333 448
Rank change year-on-year +9 +115 +92
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 30 56 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.31% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.34% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 39 35
10th Percentile £475 £385 £413
25th Percentile £504 £581 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £649
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +0.15% +12.87%
75th Percentile £705 £656 £669
90th Percentile £750 £700 £709
England median daily rate £524 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -4.38% -8.75% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,734 16,635 25,761
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.47% 93.23% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,043 12,034 18,663
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £799 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 337 289
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.05 £20.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.83 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £76.05
England median hourly rate £31.64 £35.96 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.01% -20.09% +100.00%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in London

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in London

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in London

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in London

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London -3 2 - - 1
East London - 1 £500 -
Operations Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (43.33%) Python
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
1 13 (43.33%) SIEM
1 13 (43.33%) Security Operations
2 12 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (40.00%) Firewall
3 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 10 (33.33%) Google
3 10 (33.33%) SOAR
4 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (30.00%) Hyperautomation
4 9 (30.00%) MLOps
4 9 (30.00%) Palo Alto
4 9 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 9 (30.00%) Analytics
5 8 (26.67%) Agile
5 8 (26.67%) Workflow
6 7 (23.33%) AWS
6 7 (23.33%) Data Science
6 7 (23.33%) Incident Response
7 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
7 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.00%) Azure Stack
7 6 (20.00%) Product Strategy
7 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
7 6 (20.00%) DataOps
7 6 (20.00%) Scala
8 5 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 5 (16.67%) Linux
8 5 (16.67%) Refactoring

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) Jupyter
1 1 (3.33%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) Azure Stack
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.67%) Slack
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.33%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (10.00%) DHCP
2 3 (10.00%) DNS
2 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.67%) Wireshark
4 1 (3.33%) 5G
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (3.33%) SNMP
4 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) MLflow
2 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.33%) Military
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.33%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (3.33%) LangChain
2 1 (3.33%) NumPy
2 1 (3.33%) ONNX
2 1 (3.33%) Pandas
2 1 (3.33%) PySpark
2 1 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Derivative
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Security Operations
1 13 (43.33%) SIEM
2 10 (33.33%) SOAR
3 9 (30.00%) Analytics
3 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (30.00%) Hyperautomation
3 9 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 9 (30.00%) MLOps
4 8 (26.67%) Agile
4 8 (26.67%) Workflow
5 7 (23.33%) Data Science
5 7 (23.33%) Incident Response
6 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (20.00%) DataOps
6 6 (20.00%) Product Strategy
7 5 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 5 (16.67%) Refactoring
8 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (13.33%) Information Security
8 4 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) Scala
3 2 (6.67%) Java
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Perl
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CCSP
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.33%) CISSP
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) GCIH
5 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (10.00%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Ansible
2 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.00%) SCCM
2 3 (10.00%) WSUS
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) Istio
4 1 (3.33%) Podman
4 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Google
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (10.00%) Rapid7
3 3 (10.00%) Sophos
4 2 (6.67%) Blue Coat
4 2 (6.67%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) F5
4 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.67%) NetScout
4 2 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix
5 1 (3.33%) Dataiku
5 1 (3.33%) DataRobot
5 1 (3.33%) Okta
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Pega
5 1 (3.33%) Rackspace
5 1 (3.33%) VMware