Operations Engineer Job Trends in East London

Operations Engineer
London > East London

The median Operations Engineer salary in East London is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in East London 1.80% 0.84% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 0.98% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86,250 £56,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £58,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.86% - -
75th Percentile £88,750 £59,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.13% +29.17% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in East 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 East London with a recognized job title 150 102 298
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.82% 85.71% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 99 62 221
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,025 £25,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,563 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £39,085
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +27.93% -39.87%
75th Percentile £100,000 £71,563 £57,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £113,000 £107,500
London median annual salary £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Operations Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in East London.

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in East London

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in East London

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in East London.

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in East London

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the East London region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Docklands, London - 3 £87,500 -
Operations Engineer
London

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London

For the 6 months to 26 October 2025, Operations Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet