Operations Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 420 572
Rank change year-on-year +97 +152 -123
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 29 50 62
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.19% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 44
10th Percentile - £413 £339
25th Percentile £335 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% +4.48%
75th Percentile £604 £649 £622
90th Percentile £690 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £594 £525
% change year-on-year -7.37% +13.10% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Operations Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Operations Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Operations Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Operations Engineer.

Operations Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Operations Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 29 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (55.17%) Firewall
2 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
3 10 (34.48%) Public Sector
4 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
5 8 (27.59%) CCNP
5 8 (27.59%) Cisco
5 8 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
5 8 (27.59%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (24.14%) Juniper
6 7 (24.14%) Windows
6 7 (24.14%) JNCIA
7 6 (20.69%) SQL
7 6 (20.69%) CCNA
7 6 (20.69%) Azure
7 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (17.24%) High Availability
8 5 (17.24%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
8 5 (17.24%) JNCIS
8 5 (17.24%) MPLS
8 5 (17.24%) OSPF
8 5 (17.24%) BGP
8 5 (17.24%) EIGRP
8 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
9 4 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
9 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
9 4 (13.79%) Active Directory

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Azure
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.34%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (3.45%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (3.45%) AWS KMS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) npm
4 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (55.17%) Firewall
2 8 (27.59%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (17.24%) BGP
3 5 (17.24%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (17.24%) EIGRP
3 5 (17.24%) MPLS
3 5 (17.24%) OSPF
4 4 (13.79%) LAN
5 3 (10.34%) VPN
5 3 (10.34%) WAN
5 3 (10.34%) Wireless
6 2 (6.90%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (6.90%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (6.90%) Network Security
7 1 (3.45%) DHCP
7 1 (3.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.45%) Metadata
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.34%) TeamCity
2 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Gradle
3 1 (3.45%) gulp
3 1 (3.45%) Maven
3 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.45%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (34.48%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.45%) SAML
2 1 (3.45%) XML
2 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.45%) Insider Threat
3 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.34%) Linux
4 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.45%) MVS
4 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (17.24%) High Availability
3 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) ITIL
4 3 (10.34%) Service Management
5 2 (6.90%) Agile
5 2 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (6.90%) Incident Response
5 2 (6.90%) Migration
5 2 (6.90%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 2 (6.90%) Scrum
5 2 (6.90%) Security Operations
5 2 (6.90%) Server Management
5 2 (6.90%) Service Delivery
5 2 (6.90%) SIEM
5 2 (6.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) Python
4 1 (3.45%) C#
4 1 (3.45%) Go
4 1 (3.45%) Groovy
4 1 (3.45%) Java
4 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (3.45%) PHP
4 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Ruby
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (27.59%) CCNP
2 8 (27.59%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (27.59%) DV Cleared
3 7 (24.14%) JNCIA
4 6 (20.69%) CCNA
5 5 (17.24%) JNCIS
6 4 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
7 2 (6.90%) CCSA
7 2 (6.90%) Degree
8 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) SLA
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Ansible
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (27.59%) Cisco
3 7 (24.14%) Juniper
4 3 (10.34%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.90%) Blue Coat
5 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.45%) CA
6 1 (3.45%) iManage
6 1 (3.45%) Intapp
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle
6 1 (3.45%) VMware