Senior Operations Engineer Contracts

Senior Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 696 823
Rank change year-on-year +133 +127 -139
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 19 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.012% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.013% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 15
10th Percentile £409 £619 £293
25th Percentile £628 £647 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +30.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £709 £709 £700
90th Percentile £726 £726 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £719 £469
% change year-on-year -23.48% +53.25% -6.20%

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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Operations Engineer in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Operations Engineer in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Operations Engineer in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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 +108 18 £700 +1.82% 6
London +109 16 £700 +9.80% 4
Work from Home +125 8 £700 - 6
UK excluding London +54 2 £550 -23.48% 2
South West - 1 £425 - 1
Scotland - 1 £675 -

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (84.21%) Firewall
2 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
3 11 (57.89%) DV Cleared
3 11 (57.89%) Roadmaps
4 10 (52.63%) Service Delivery
5 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
6 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
7 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (10.53%) Security Operations
7 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
7 2 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (10.53%) SQL
7 2 (10.53%) Agile
7 2 (10.53%) SIEM
7 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
8 1 (5.26%) NX-OS
8 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (5.26%) DDoS Mitigation
8 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
8 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
8 1 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (5.26%) IaaS

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (5.26%) AWS KMS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.26%) IaaS
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (84.21%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (5.26%) IP Telephony
3 1 (5.26%) LAN
3 1 (5.26%) NX-OS
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Metadata
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (36.84%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.26%) SAML
1 1 (5.26%) XML
1 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) CMDB
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
1 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (5.26%) Insider Threat
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Roadmaps
2 10 (52.63%) Service Delivery
3 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.53%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Security Operations
4 2 (10.53%) SIEM
5 1 (5.26%) Attack Monitoring
5 1 (5.26%) Change Management
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps
5 1 (5.26%) E-Discovery
5 1 (5.26%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.26%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (5.26%) Risk Management
5 1 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) Groovy
2 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NCSC
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle