Operations Engineer Jobs in England

Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Operations Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 747 816
Rank change year-on-year +107 +69 -141
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 199 171 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 150 145 186
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,950 £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,634
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.25% +4.06%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year -1.71% +8.13% +4.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,157 82,189 127,880
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.48% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,579 52,238 74,819
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in England

Operations 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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
North of England +87 64 £62,732 +32.07% 9
London +91 52 £60,000 -10.45% 20
North West +47 47 £65,000 +39.78% 5
Midlands +21 43 £40,000 -15.79% 7
West Midlands +26 28 £42,500 -10.53% 2
East of England +41 22 £70,000 -
East Midlands -5 15 £40,000 +14.29% 5
Yorkshire +83 11 £85,000 +60.38% 2
South West -28 10 £60,000 +14.29% 4
South East -22 9 £55,000 +22.22% 7
North East +1 6 £60,000 +41.18% 2
Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 83 (41.71%) Azure
2 58 (29.15%) Active Directory
3 51 (25.63%) Microsoft
4 49 (24.62%) Windows
5 48 (24.12%) ITIL
6 40 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (19.10%) Agile
7 38 (19.10%) AWS
8 35 (17.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (17.09%) Microsoft 365
10 33 (16.58%) Python
11 30 (15.08%) Windows Server
11 30 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (15.08%) Linux
12 29 (14.57%) Cisco
12 29 (14.57%) PowerShell
13 27 (13.57%) Terraform
13 27 (13.57%) Firewall
14 26 (13.07%) DevOps
14 26 (13.07%) Social Skills
15 25 (12.56%) Kubernetes
15 25 (12.56%) SQL
15 25 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
16 24 (12.06%) VoIP
16 24 (12.06%) DHCP
16 24 (12.06%) DNS
16 24 (12.06%) Change Management
16 24 (12.06%) Infrastructure as Code
17 23 (11.56%) Entra ID
17 23 (11.56%) Service Delivery

Operations 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 13 (6.53%) IIS
2 6 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 83 (41.71%) Azure
2 38 (19.10%) AWS
3 34 (17.09%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (11.56%) Entra ID
5 19 (9.55%) IaaS
5 19 (9.55%) PaaS
5 19 (9.55%) SaaS
6 13 (6.53%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.02%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.51%) Azure Storage
10 3 (1.51%) Datadog
11 2 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.01%) GitHub
12 1 (0.50%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.57%) Firewall
2 24 (12.06%) DHCP
2 24 (12.06%) DNS
2 24 (12.06%) VoIP
3 18 (9.05%) WAN
4 16 (8.04%) VPN
5 14 (7.04%) LAN
5 14 (7.04%) TCP/IP
6 12 (6.03%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (5.03%) Network Security
8 8 (4.02%) SAN
9 7 (3.52%) Internet
10 5 (2.51%) BGP
10 5 (2.51%) OSPF
10 5 (2.51%) VLAN
11 4 (2.01%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 4 (2.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (2.01%) tcpdump
11 4 (2.01%) Unified Communications
11 4 (2.01%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.01%) MySQL
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.01%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (2.01%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.50%) Git
5 1 (0.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) JMeter
5 1 (0.50%) MLflow
5 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 26 (13.07%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.05%) Law
3 18 (9.05%) Finance
4 17 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.01%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.51%) Legal
7 3 (1.51%) Marketing
8 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.50%) Police
9 1 (0.50%) Retail
9 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.02%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (3.02%) Node.js
2 2 (1.01%) ADO
3 1 (0.50%) .NET
3 1 (0.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.50%) boto
3 1 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.50%) HTML
3 1 (0.50%) OpenID
3 1 (0.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.05%) Fat Client
1 20 (10.05%) Thin Client
2 15 (7.54%) Data Centre
3 14 (7.04%) Cloud Native
4 13 (6.53%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (6.03%) Driving Licence
5 12 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.52%) Clustering
7 8 (4.02%) IoT
8 6 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.02%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.02%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.51%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.51%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (24.62%) Windows
2 30 (15.08%) Linux
2 30 (15.08%) Windows Server
3 10 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.02%) Windows 10
4 8 (4.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.02%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (2.01%) VMS
7 2 (1.01%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.01%) Unix
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (24.12%) ITIL
2 40 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (19.10%) Agile
4 35 (17.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 30 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (13.07%) DevOps
7 25 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (12.06%) Change Management
8 24 (12.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (11.56%) Service Delivery
10 21 (10.55%) CI/CD
10 21 (10.55%) Cloud Operations
11 20 (10.05%) Project Planning
12 19 (9.55%) Security Operations
13 18 (9.05%) Asset Management
13 18 (9.05%) SIEM
14 17 (8.54%) High Availability
14 17 (8.54%) ITSM
15 13 (6.53%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (6.53%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.58%) Python
2 29 (14.57%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.56%) SQL
4 16 (8.04%) Java
5 13 (6.53%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.53%) Perl
7 7 (3.52%) C#
8 6 (3.02%) C++
8 6 (3.02%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.51%) Bash
9 3 (1.51%) Ruby
10 2 (1.01%) PHP
10 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) C
11 1 (0.50%) Go
11 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (7.04%) JNCIA
1 14 (7.04%) JNCIP
2 12 (6.03%) A+ Certification
2 12 (6.03%) Network+ Certification
3 11 (5.53%) Degree
4 8 (4.02%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.01%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.50%) CCNA
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.50%) HNC
9 1 (0.50%) HND
9 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) MCSE
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.51%) NIST
2 5 (2.51%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.01%) QA
3 4 (2.01%) SLA
4 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) GRC
4 1 (0.50%) GxP
System Software
1 58 (29.15%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.05%) Docker
3 11 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.02%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.50%) Samba
Systems Management
1 27 (13.57%) Terraform
2 25 (12.56%) Kubernetes
3 23 (11.56%) SCCM
4 13 (6.53%) Ansible
4 13 (6.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (6.03%) Puppet
6 10 (5.03%) Progress Chef
6 10 (5.03%) Salt
7 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Clustering
8 7 (3.52%) Opsgenie
9 4 (2.01%) CASB
10 2 (1.01%) Grafana
10 2 (1.01%) Nagios
10 2 (1.01%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.50%) DatAdvantage
11 1 (0.50%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.50%) QRadar
11 1 (0.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 1 (0.50%) WSUS
11 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (25.63%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.57%) Cisco
3 17 (8.54%) Veeam
3 17 (8.54%) VMware
4 14 (7.04%) Fortinet
4 14 (7.04%) Juniper
4 14 (7.04%) Palo Alto
5 6 (3.02%) Citrix
5 6 (3.02%) Remedy
6 5 (2.51%) Qualys
7 4 (2.01%) Barracuda Networks
7 4 (2.01%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.01%) Cylance
7 4 (2.01%) F5
7 4 (2.01%) McAfee
7 4 (2.01%) Meraki
8 3 (1.51%) CA
8 3 (1.51%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.51%) Varonis
9 2 (1.01%) LogRhythm