Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Operations Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Shropshire is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -36 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.96% 1.65% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £423 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £484 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - -
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £429 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £442 £368
% change year-on-year -3.85% +20.27% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 284 103 49
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 85.12% 98.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 73 28
10th Percentile £387 £218 £242
25th Percentile £429 £369 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £477 £410
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% +16.34% -22.64%
75th Percentile £538 £515 £495
90th Percentile £560 £544 £561
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.21 - -
Median hourly rate £18.68 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.37% - -
75th Percentile £28.87 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £35.56 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £23.60 £22.40
% change year-on-year +6.57% +5.38% +26.38%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Telford -35 3 £425 -12.19% 1
Operations Engineer
West Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 2025, 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 Shropshire region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Batch Scheduling
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) EJB
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) J2SE
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Play Framework
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Batch Scheduling
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Lean Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) webMethods