Operations Engineer Contracts in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in the West Midlands is £405 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 130 173
Rank change year-on-year +26 +43 -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 5 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.42% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.44% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £364 £464 -
25th Percentile £376 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £436 - -
90th Percentile £451 - -
England median daily rate £548 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.75% +14.29% +3.96%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,758 2,262 3,427
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 94.88% 96.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 1,556 2,510
10th Percentile £259 £250 £220
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +18.01%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 66 81
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.02 £14.32
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% +12.85% +9.71%
75th Percentile £42.31 £26.82 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £55.63 £22.25
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham - 3 £360 - 1
Shropshire +24 1 £450 -16.67%
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 28 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Server Management
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware