Operations Engineer Contracts in the North West

Operations Engineer
England > North West

As of 30 April 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Operations Engineer daily rate in the North West.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 128 128
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 +28
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 7 6 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.22% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.23% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 19
10th Percentile - £465 £500
25th Percentile - £529 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £618
Median % change year-on-year - -10.93% +32.80%
75th Percentile - £563 £650
90th Percentile - £628 -
England median daily rate £524 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -4.38% -8.75% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 1,807 2,621 3,029
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.38% 94.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,712 2,171
10th Percentile £250 £276 £300
25th Percentile £378 £390 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £653 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.95 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £84.15 £63.75 £65.00
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the North West

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in the North West

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in the North West

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire - 6 - - 4
Manchester +14 1 - - 6
Operations Engineer
England

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

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 North West region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Mattermost
2 5 (71.43%) Skype
2 5 (71.43%) WebEx
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) SCOM
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 5 (71.43%) Skype for Business
2 5 (71.43%) Unified Communications
2 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 5 (71.43%) Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) B2B
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
2 5 (71.43%) Softphone
2 5 (71.43%) XMPP
2 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (71.43%) Mattermost
1 5 (71.43%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Skype
1 5 (71.43%) Softphone
1 5 (71.43%) Unified Communications
1 5 (71.43%) WebEx
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
2 1 (14.29%) IPv4
2 1 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (14.29%) OSPF
2 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ITIL
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) B2B
2 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
2 5 (71.43%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Network Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCOM
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 5 (71.43%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) BMC
3 1 (14.29%) Huawei
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy