Operations Engineer Contracts in London

Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 449 539
Rank change year-on-year +116 +90 -104
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 56 51 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 36 41
10th Percentile £385 £371 £400
25th Percentile £581 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £649 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +12.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £656 £659 £650
90th Percentile £700 £708 £700
England median daily rate £548 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -6.81% +11.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 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
Central London +48 13 £625 +38.89% 2
Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (51.79%) Security Cleared
2 26 (46.43%) Firewall
3 23 (41.07%) DevOps
4 18 (32.14%) Azure
4 18 (32.14%) AWS
5 16 (28.57%) PowerShell
6 15 (26.79%) DV Cleared
6 15 (26.79%) Windows
7 14 (25.00%) Terraform
8 12 (21.43%) Roadmaps
9 10 (17.86%) Public Sector
9 10 (17.86%) Service Delivery
10 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
10 9 (16.07%) Containerisation
10 9 (16.07%) Kubernetes
11 8 (14.29%) React
11 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
11 8 (14.29%) AWS CDK
11 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
12 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
12 7 (12.50%) Banking
12 7 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (10.71%) Network Segmentation
13 6 (10.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 6 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
13 6 (10.71%) Migration
13 6 (10.71%) Scrum
13 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering

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 3 (5.36%) Apache
1 3 (5.36%) JBoss
1 3 (5.36%) nginx
1 3 (5.36%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.79%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.14%) AWS
1 18 (32.14%) Azure
2 7 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.14%) PaaS
5 4 (7.14%) Serverless
6 3 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.36%) IaaS
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Storage
7 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.57%) SaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Akamai
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.79%) GitHub
8 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (46.43%) Firewall
2 5 (8.93%) DNS
2 5 (8.93%) Network Security
3 3 (5.36%) LAN
3 3 (5.36%) WAN
4 2 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.57%) SSL
4 2 (3.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.57%) VPN
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.79%) DHCP
5 1 (1.79%) HTTP
5 1 (1.79%) Internet
5 1 (1.79%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.79%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.79%) SSH
5 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.36%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) TeamCity
2 4 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 10 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.50%) Banking
3 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Finance
5 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Front Office
6 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 8 (14.29%) React
2 4 (7.14%) Gherkin
2 4 (7.14%) Node.js
2 4 (7.14%) Vue
3 3 (5.36%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.79%) .NET
5 1 (1.79%) JSON
5 1 (1.79%) LDAP
5 1 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.57%) Client/Server
1 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.79%) CMDB
2 1 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (1.79%) Cyberattack
2 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.79%) Fat Client
2 1 (1.79%) Insider Threat
2 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Windows
2 8 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.14%) Linux
4 3 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.36%) Unix
5 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.07%) DevOps
2 12 (21.43%) Roadmaps
3 10 (17.86%) Service Delivery
4 9 (16.07%) Containerisation
5 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 6 (10.71%) Migration
6 6 (10.71%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (10.71%) Network Segmentation
6 6 (10.71%) Scrum
6 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 4 (7.14%) Incident Management
7 4 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (7.14%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (7.14%) Secure Coding
7 4 (7.14%) Security Operations
7 4 (7.14%) Server Management
7 4 (7.14%) Threat Modelling
8 3 (5.36%) Cloud Operations
8 3 (5.36%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.93%) SQL
4 4 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.57%) Python
7 1 (1.79%) Bash
7 1 (1.79%) C#
7 1 (1.79%) Java
7 1 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (51.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (26.79%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) CCNA
4 1 (1.79%) CCNP
4 1 (1.79%) Check Point Certification
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.79%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) SLA
2 2 (3.57%) NIST
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.79%) NFS
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Terraform
2 9 (16.07%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.14%) Grafana
3 4 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.79%) SCCM
5 1 (1.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) Cisco
2 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) IBM
3 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.36%) Temenos
4 2 (3.57%) CA
4 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) AlgoSec
5 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.79%) BT
5 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.79%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.79%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) iManage
5 1 (1.79%) Intapp
5 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.79%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.79%) Reuters
5 1 (1.79%) Sophos