Operations Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Operations Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Operations Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 January 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 130 115
Rank change year-on-year +4 -15 +51
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 3 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% 0.044% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.046% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £57,500 - £48,141
25th Percentile £59,375 £37,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -33.33% +29.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £42,500 -
90th Percentile £79,500 - -
England median annual salary £62,500 £51,127 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.24% -7.04% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 2,338 2,159 1,685
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 95.91% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,566 962 1,351
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,875 £36,438 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -3.40%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%

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
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the East Midlands

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 7 January 2026, 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 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (100.00%) Confluence
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform

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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Billing
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft