Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Operations Engineer
East London > Tower Hamlets

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Tower Hamlets is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 1.54% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median daily rate £400 £513 -
% change year-on-year -21.95% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Tower Hamlets

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tower Hamlets. 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 Tower Hamlets with a recognized job title 60 52 111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 91.23% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 48 106
10th Percentile £403 £350 £443
25th Percentile £445 £495 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -1.71% -4.49%
75th Percentile £674 £596 £650
90th Percentile £758 £638 £770
East London median daily rate £495 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -1.00% -7.41% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.13
25th Percentile - - £16.56
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - +111.30% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median hourly rate £24.03 £28.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -15.98% +30.00% -27.87%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Tower Hamlets

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets

For the 6 months to 2 April 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 Tower Hamlets region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
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%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Pricing Data
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana