Operations Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Operations Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 102 126
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.099% 0.12% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.13% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.37%
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £524 £548 £600
% change year-on-year -4.38% -8.75% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 957 1,545 2,202
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 91.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 960 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £232 £260
25th Percentile £358 £375 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 66 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.05% -35.23% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £31.64 £35.96 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.01% -20.09% +100.00%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Yorkshire

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in Yorkshire

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
West Yorkshire +13 1 £325 -
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, 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 Yorkshire region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow