Operations Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Operations Engineer
England > East of England

The median Operations Engineer salary in the East of England is £39,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 201 206
Rank change year-on-year +18 +5 +88
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 3 19 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.081% 0.28% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.30% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 1 17 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,250 £62,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.57% - +40.00%
75th Percentile £41,750 £77,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £51,058 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.31% +13.64% +0.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 3,499 6,271 3,559
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 94.02% 82.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,778 4,744 1,984
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,833 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the East of England

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the East of England

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Cambridgeshire +25 1 - - 2
Suffolk - 1 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 £39,500 - 1
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 4 July 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 East of England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) OOP
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) Spark SQL
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
1 2 (66.67%) Lambda Expressions
1 2 (66.67%) Keras
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
1 2 (66.67%) DynamoDB
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
1 2 (66.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Keras
1 2 (66.67%) Lambda Expressions
1 2 (66.67%) Metaflow
1 2 (66.67%) NumPy
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
1 2 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 2 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 2 (66.67%) TensorFlow
1 2 (66.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Information Security
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
1 2 (66.67%) MLOps
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) OOP
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubeflow
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft