Operations Engineer Contracts in Telford

Operations Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Telford is £539, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 27 51
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 3 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 2.78% 0.85% 5.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% 1.02% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £537 - -
25th Percentile £538 £440 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +19.67% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £539 £460 -
90th Percentile £540 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £539 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +19.67% -16.67% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 102 98 137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 83.76% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 68 107
10th Percentile £390 £346 £412
25th Percentile £450 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% -4.69% +7.60%
75th Percentile £538 £536 £553
90th Percentile £541 £538 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £493 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.40% -7.06% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -72.73% +378.26%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £12.18 £15.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.80% -72.73% +323.08%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Telford

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in Telford.

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in Telford

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Telford region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty
2 2 (66.67%) Opsview
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Opsview
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) PagerDuty
9 Operations Engineer jobs in Shropshire