Operations Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Operations Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Operations Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 November 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 152 115
Rank change year-on-year +11 -37 +54
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 6 4 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.27% 0.12% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.12% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £56,875 £39,000 £48,141
25th Percentile £57,813 £41,250 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.11% -25.00% +29.73%
75th Percentile £65,313 £47,500 -
90th Percentile £66,625 - -
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,775 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.37% +17.77% -4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,097 3,287 1,574
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 94.84% 97.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,250 1,580 1,140
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Leicestershire +19 1 - -
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 November 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 Midlands region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) AI
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) Databricks
2 4 (66.67%) Delta Lake
2 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) DynamoDB
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) Keras
2 4 (66.67%) Kubeflow
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Lambda Expressions
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Metadata
2 4 (66.67%) Metadata Management
2 4 (66.67%) Metaflow
2 4 (66.67%) MLflow
2 4 (66.67%) MLOps
2 4 (66.67%) NumPy
2 4 (66.67%) OO
2 4 (66.67%) OOP
2 4 (66.67%) OWASP

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Delta Lake
1 4 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 4 (66.67%) Metadata
1 4 (66.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MLflow
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Billing
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Keras
1 4 (66.67%) Lambda Expressions
1 4 (66.67%) Metaflow
1 4 (66.67%) NumPy
1 4 (66.67%) Pandas
1 4 (66.67%) PySpark
1 4 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 4 (66.67%) TensorFlow
1 4 (66.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) AI
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 4 (66.67%) Data Science
1 4 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (66.67%) Information Security
1 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 4 (66.67%) Metadata Management
1 4 (66.67%) MLOps
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) OOP
1 4 (66.67%) OWASP
1 4 (66.67%) Time Management
1 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Kubeflow
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft