Operations Engineer Contracts

Operations Engineer
UK

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 585 698
Rank change year-on-year +97 +113 -88
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 110 134 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 92 107
10th Percentile £353 £401 £319
25th Percentile £406 £479 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +13.10% +3.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -20.15% +8.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +114 104 £548 -8.75% 58
London +108 56 £650 +0.15% 22
UK excluding London +40 51 £431 -20.15% 47
Work from Home +110 29 £425 -22.73% 29
South East +30 23 £411 -9.57% 7
North of England +19 16 £416 -32.57% 13
North East +27 8 £375 -46.43% 1
North West -8 6 £550 -10.93% 7
Scotland +30 5 £725 +16.00% 2
West Midlands +25 5 £405 -25.00% 1
Midlands +15 5 £405 -25.00% 7
East of England +17 4 £442 +41.44%
Yorkshire +21 2 - - 5
South West +20 1 £425 -43.33% 10

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 37 (33.64%) Firewall
3 34 (30.91%) DevOps
4 33 (30.00%) Azure
5 29 (26.36%) AWS
6 23 (20.91%) Terraform
7 22 (20.00%) Windows
8 20 (18.18%) PowerShell
9 18 (16.36%) CI/CD
9 18 (16.36%) Kubernetes
9 18 (16.36%) Cisco
9 18 (16.36%) Microsoft
10 17 (15.45%) DV Cleared
10 17 (15.45%) Public Sector
10 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
11 15 (13.64%) Active Directory
12 14 (12.73%) Linux
12 14 (12.73%) SQL
13 13 (11.82%) Migration
13 13 (11.82%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (11.82%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (11.82%) Social Skills
13 13 (11.82%) Roadmaps
14 12 (10.91%) Docker
14 12 (10.91%) Data Centre
14 12 (10.91%) Agile
15 11 (10.00%) Incident Management
15 11 (10.00%) Juniper

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (5.45%) Apache
2 5 (4.55%) Confluence
3 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.64%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.73%) JBoss
4 3 (2.73%) nginx
4 3 (2.73%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.91%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 33 (30.00%) Azure
2 29 (26.36%) AWS
3 13 (11.82%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.27%) PaaS
6 7 (6.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.45%) IaaS
8 5 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.55%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.55%) Serverless
9 4 (3.64%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.64%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.73%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.73%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.82%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (1.82%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 37 (33.64%) Firewall
2 13 (11.82%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (8.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (7.27%) DNS
4 8 (7.27%) Network Security
5 7 (6.36%) LAN
5 7 (6.36%) VPN
6 6 (5.45%) WAN
6 6 (5.45%) Wireless
7 5 (4.55%) BGP
7 5 (4.55%) EIGRP
7 5 (4.55%) MPLS
7 5 (4.55%) OSPF
8 4 (3.64%) SSL
9 3 (2.73%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (2.73%) DHCP
9 3 (2.73%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.82%) HTTP
10 2 (1.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.64%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.73%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.73%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.73%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.82%) MySQL
5 2 (1.82%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.91%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.91%) Metadata
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (6.36%) Git
1 7 (6.36%) TeamCity
2 6 (5.45%) JIRA
3 4 (3.64%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.73%) GitLab
4 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.73%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.82%) JMeter
5 2 (1.82%) Selenium
5 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.91%) Gradle
6 1 (0.91%) gulp
6 1 (0.91%) Maven
6 1 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.91%) Travis CI
General
1 17 (15.45%) Public Sector
2 13 (11.82%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Banking
4 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.45%) Finance
6 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.82%) Automotive
7 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Front Office
8 1 (0.91%) Law
8 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) AWS CDK
1 8 (7.27%) React
2 4 (3.64%) Gherkin
2 4 (3.64%) Node.js
2 4 (3.64%) Vue
3 3 (2.73%) .NET
3 3 (2.73%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.73%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (1.82%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.82%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.82%) JSON
4 2 (1.82%) Kafka
4 2 (1.82%) REST
4 2 (1.82%) RESTful
4 2 (1.82%) Web Services
5 1 (0.91%) LDAP
5 1 (0.91%) OAuth
5 1 (0.91%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.91%) XML
5 1 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.64%) PKI
3 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.82%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.82%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.91%) CMDB
5 1 (0.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.91%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.91%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.91%) Insider Threat
5 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.91%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.00%) Windows
2 14 (12.73%) Linux
3 11 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.36%) Unix
5 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.82%) VMS
6 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.91%) MVS
7 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.91%) DevOps
2 18 (16.36%) CI/CD
3 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (11.82%) Migration
5 13 (11.82%) Roadmaps
6 12 (10.91%) Agile
7 11 (10.00%) Containerisation
7 11 (10.00%) Incident Management
8 10 (9.09%) Scrum
8 10 (9.09%) Service Delivery
9 8 (7.27%) Change Management
9 8 (7.27%) Cloud Operations
9 8 (7.27%) High Availability
9 8 (7.27%) ITIL
10 7 (6.36%) Security Operations
10 7 (6.36%) Service Management
11 6 (5.45%) Analytics
11 6 (5.45%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 6 (5.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 14 (12.73%) SQL
3 10 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 10 (9.09%) Python
4 6 (5.45%) Bash
5 5 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.64%) Go
7 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.82%) C#
8 2 (1.82%) Java
9 1 (0.91%) Groovy
9 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.91%) PHP
9 1 (0.91%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.91%) Ruby
9 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.45%) DV Cleared
3 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.09%) CCNP
4 10 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (8.18%) Degree
6 8 (7.27%) JNCIA
7 7 (6.36%) CCNA
8 5 (4.55%) JNCIS
9 4 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.73%) CCSA
11 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.82%) VCAP
11 2 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.91%) Check Point Certification
12 1 (0.91%) CISSP
12 1 (0.91%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) SLA
2 3 (2.73%) NIST
3 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.91%) NCSC
4 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.91%) Docker
3 3 (2.73%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.82%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.82%) vSphere
5 1 (0.91%) NFS
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (20.91%) Terraform
2 18 (16.36%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.27%) Ansible
3 8 (7.27%) Grafana
3 8 (7.27%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.73%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.91%) Podman
6 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.91%) SCCM
6 1 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (16.36%) Cisco
1 18 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) Juniper
3 8 (7.27%) Palo Alto
4 7 (6.36%) Oracle
5 4 (3.64%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.73%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.73%) Blue Coat
6 3 (2.73%) CA
6 3 (2.73%) IBM
6 3 (2.73%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.73%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.73%) Splunk
6 3 (2.73%) Temenos
6 3 (2.73%) VMware
7 2 (1.82%) iManage
7 2 (1.82%) Intapp
7 2 (1.82%) SAP
7 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.91%) ForeScout