Senior Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Operations Engineer daily rate in London is £548, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 - 383
Rank change year-on-year - - +125
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 3 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.018% - 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% - 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £543 - £503
25th Percentile £544 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £549 - -
90th Percentile £550 - -
England median daily rate £548 £588 £700
% change year-on-year -6.81% -16.07% +9.80%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 15,630 11,903 16,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 93.60% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,451 8,152 12,145
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 150 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.19 £15.99
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £61.69 £51.80 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.92 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.60% +6.15% -23.85%

Senior Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Senior Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 29 March 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 London region featuring Senior Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage

Senior Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DKIM
1 1 (33.33%) DMARC
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) FinOps
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) VMware