Operations Engineer Job Trends in Coventry

Operations Engineer
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Operations Engineer salary in Coventry is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 September 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 1.28% - 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% - 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £47,500
75th Percentile £72,500 - £48,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £40,753 £47,500
% change year-on-year +47.23% -14.21% +9.83%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 141 201 309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 96.17% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 71 113 274
10th Percentile £24,750 £27,850 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £42,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £60,874
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £74,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Coventry

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Coventry.

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Coventry

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 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 Coventry region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Metaflow
2 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Keras
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (50.00%) MLflow
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Pandas
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks