Operations Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Operations Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 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
3 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 95 118
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 +31
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 8 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.52% 0.40% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.44% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £384 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £574 - -
England median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -14.24%

All DemandTrendContract 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 1,429 1,360 1,991
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.58% 89.77% 96.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 834 1,315
10th Percentile £251 £300 £225
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £613
90th Percentile £625 £654 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 60 37
10th Percentile £16.57 £13.50 £12.17
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +66.10%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in Yorkshire

Operations Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies 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 3 September 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 -3 7 £325 - 1
South Yorkshire -13 7 £600 -
Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 September 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 6 (75.00%) DNS
1 6 (75.00%) DMZ
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
1 6 (75.00%) Investment Banking
1 6 (75.00%) Load Balancing
1 6 (75.00%) Network Security
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (75.00%) F5
1 6 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 6 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 6 (75.00%) Management Information System
1 6 (75.00%) Business Strategy
1 6 (75.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Security Patching
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) AWS

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 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DMZ
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
1 6 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 6 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 6 (75.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
1 6 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Business Strategy
1 6 (75.00%) Design Patterns
1 6 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Security Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) F5
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow