Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Operations Engineer
East of England > Norfolk

As of 26 March 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Operations Engineer daily rate in Norfolk.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 0.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - £400 £450
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Norfolk

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Norfolk. 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 Norfolk with a recognized job title 185 35 43
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.04% 94.59% 82.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 17 27
10th Percentile £126 £137 £148
25th Percentile £186 £200 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £370 £350
Median % change year-on-year -39.19% +5.71% +55.56%
75th Percentile £339 £450 £538
90th Percentile £550 £558 £553
East of England median daily rate £475 £490 £450
% change year-on-year -3.06% +8.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 6 14
10th Percentile £12.21 £14.01 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.19 £12.86
Median hourly rate £14.11 £15.33 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +0.51% -5.46%
75th Percentile £21.13 £15.94 £17.81
90th Percentile £23.75 £19.87 £26.25
East of England median hourly rate £23.75 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -60.42% +50.00% +21.21%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

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

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

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 Norfolk region over the 6 months to 26 March 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
Norwich - 1 - - 2
Operations Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 26 March 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 Norfolk region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Talend