Hybrid/Remote Senior Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Operations Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 333 415
Rank change year-on-year +30 +82 +182
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.016% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.017% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £679 -
25th Percentile £525 £684 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £713 £850
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% -16.18% +47.83%
75th Percentile £575 £734 -
90th Percentile - £736 -
UK median daily rate £550 £700 £688
% change year-on-year -21.43% +1.82% +23.87%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,102 11,812 19,436
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.46% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,992 7,603 13,744
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 297 445
10th Percentile £13.25 £19.47 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.02 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.96% +68.69%

Senior Operations Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Operations Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Operations Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Senior Operations Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Senior Operations Engineer job vacancies

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Grafana
3 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) HTTP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (50.00%) Information Security
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories

Senior 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 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Hub
2 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Availability Management
2 2 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Argo
3 1 (25.00%) Consul
3 1 (25.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Sage
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk