Operations Engineer Job Trends in East Sussex

Operations Engineer
South East > East Sussex

The median Operations Engineer salary in East Sussex is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in East Sussex 0.85% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £41,250 £48,750
% change year-on-year +57.58% -15.38% +2.63%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in East Sussex. 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 Sussex with a recognized job title 551 384 508
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 92.53% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 402 202 392
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,125 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £70,000 £94,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.31% -5.00%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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 Sussex.

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in East Sussex

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

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in East Sussex

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 September 2026. 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
Brighton - 4 - -
Hove - 1 £85,000 -
Operations Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 Sussex region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) AIOps
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Datadog
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) AIOps
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace