Operations Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £416 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 190 225
Rank change year-on-year +20 +35 -52
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 16 29 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.50% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.52% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 18
10th Percentile £335 £500 £314
25th Percentile £363 £517 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £618 £458
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +34.97% -8.50%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £500
90th Percentile £568 - £650
England median daily rate £548 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -6.81% +11.90% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,453 5,567 6,937
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 95.16% 96.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,811 3,938 5,099
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £382 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £550
90th Percentile £672 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 171 296
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.50 £11.09
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.57 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.54 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +64.26% +3.29%
75th Percentile £45.94 £48.86 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £50.39
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the North of England

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in the North of England

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in the North of England

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in the North of England

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 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
North East +26 8 £375 -46.43% 1
North West -7 6 £550 -10.93% 5
Yorkshire +28 2 - - 3
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 25 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 North of England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Ansible
3 6 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) Cisco
4 5 (31.25%) Firewall
4 5 (31.25%) Juniper
4 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 5 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (31.25%) High Availability
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 4 (25.00%) Change Management
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
6 3 (18.75%) HP Fortify
6 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
6 3 (18.75%) IT Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
6 3 (18.75%) Grafana
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
3 2 (12.50%) BGP
3 2 (12.50%) EIGRP
3 2 (12.50%) MPLS
3 2 (12.50%) OSPF
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (6.25%) DMZ
4 1 (6.25%) PPP
4 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
1 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
1 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) High Availability
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Change Management
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) IT Strategy
5 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (6.25%) Design Patterns
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) Go
2 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCNA
1 2 (12.50%) CCNP
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) JNCIA
1 2 (12.50%) JNCIS
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Grafana
3 3 (18.75%) HP Fortify
3 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) Juniper
3 3 (18.75%) PagerDuty
3 3 (18.75%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) CA
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) iManage
4 1 (6.25%) Intapp
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto