Operations Support Engineer Jobs in England

Operations Support Engineer
UK > England

The median Operations Support Engineer salary in England is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
5 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 650 812 936
Rank change year-on-year +162 +124 +172
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Support Engineer 8 32 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.017% 0.038% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.040% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 10
10th Percentile - £27,000 -
25th Percentile £32,000 £27,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £34,250 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.79% -25.95% +18.59%
75th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £52,500 - £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £34,250 £46,250
% change year-on-year +16.79% -25.95% +23.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 42,114 80,514 84,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 94.48% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,536 60,209 53,453
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,464 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,915 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,822 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Operations Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Support Engineer in England

Operations Support Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Support Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Operations Support Engineer in England

Operations Support Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Support Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Operations Support Engineer in England

Operations Support Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Support Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Yorkshire +72 3 - -
North of England +61 3 - - 3
Midlands +49 3 £32,000 -20.00%
London +106 2 £50,000 -
West Midlands +49 2 £32,000 -
South East - 2 £32,000 -
East Midlands +40 1 £40,000 -
Operations Support Engineer
UK

Operations Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Operations Support 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 England region featuring Operations Support Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) PhD
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) MATLAB
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
2 3 (37.50%) Military
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) R
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (37.50%) Product Requirements
2 3 (37.50%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Email Filtering
3 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Meraki
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) WebEx

Operations Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WebEx
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
1 3 (37.50%) Military
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Smartphone
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (37.50%) Product Requirements
1 3 (37.50%) Validation
1 3 (37.50%) Verification and Validation
2 2 (25.00%) Email Filtering
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) MATLAB
1 3 (37.50%) Perl
1 3 (37.50%) R
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
2 3 (37.50%) PhD
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
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