Operations Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Operations Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Operations Engineer salary in Leeds is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 August 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 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 123 149
Rank change year-on-year +34 +26 +54
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 3 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.29% 0.050% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.052% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £33,900
25th Percentile - - £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £45,000
75th Percentile - - £48,125
90th Percentile - - £48,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 - £45,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 970 1,926 2,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.19% 95.73% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 622 1,317 1,458
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,875 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,147 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Leeds

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 Leeds region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) OOP
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
1 1 (33.33%) OWASP
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Keras

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Keras
1 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Metaflow
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Information Security
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
1 1 (33.33%) MLOps
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOP
1 1 (33.33%) OWASP
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubeflow
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks