Operations Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Operations Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Operations Engineer salary in the City of London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 May 2025.

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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 172 212
Rank change year-on-year +40 +40 +57
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 3 4 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.16% 0.12% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.13% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 19
10th Percentile £66,500 £54,000 £48,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £64,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +15.67% -7.59%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £75,625
90th Percentile - - £87,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -10.45% -2.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,787 3,199 4,399
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 96.12% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,351 2,529 3,678
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,386
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,441 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% -2.08% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year - -1.69% +1.72%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the City of London

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the City of London

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Operations Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the City of London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware