Operations Engineer Jobs in London

Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Operations Engineer salary in London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 455 542
Rank change year-on-year +95 +87 +152
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 25 50 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.23% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 12 40 85
10th Percentile £48,824 £44,823 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,375 £50,625 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -10.45% +3.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,500 - £95,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £58,750 £58,500
% change year-on-year -14.89% +0.43% +8.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,521 22,183 33,419
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.20% 94.12% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,470 16,676 24,569
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in London

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in London

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in London

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 6 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
West London - 4 - - 2
Central London +27 3 £75,000 +39.53% 1
Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (36.00%) Fortinet
2 9 (36.00%) CheckPoint
2 9 (36.00%) Firewall
2 9 (36.00%) Cisco
2 9 (36.00%) Meraki
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 8 (32.00%) Process Improvement
3 8 (32.00%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (32.00%) SolarWinds
3 8 (32.00%) Data Centre
4 7 (28.00%) Dynatrace
4 7 (28.00%) LAN
4 7 (28.00%) WLAN
4 7 (28.00%) WAN
4 7 (28.00%) VPN
4 7 (28.00%) Change Management
4 7 (28.00%) Management Information System
4 7 (28.00%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (28.00%) Firmware
5 6 (24.00%) IPsec
5 6 (24.00%) MPLS
5 6 (24.00%) OSPF
5 6 (24.00%) BGP
5 6 (24.00%) Infoblox
5 6 (24.00%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (24.00%) NX-OS
5 6 (24.00%) Network Segmentation
5 6 (24.00%) VXLAN

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (12.00%) Datadog
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (28.00%) LAN
3 7 (28.00%) VPN
3 7 (28.00%) WAN
3 7 (28.00%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (28.00%) WLAN
4 6 (24.00%) BGP
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (24.00%) IPsec
4 6 (24.00%) MPLS
4 6 (24.00%) NX-OS
4 6 (24.00%) OSPF
4 6 (24.00%) SD-WAN
4 6 (24.00%) VXLAN
5 4 (16.00%) NetScaler
6 2 (8.00%) Network Security
6 2 (8.00%) Wireshark
7 1 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Gradle
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Maven
2 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
1 5 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (20.00%) Police
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (28.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Smartphone
4 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Linux
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (32.00%) Process Improvement
3 7 (28.00%) Change Management
4 6 (24.00%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 5 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (20.00%) Runbook
5 5 (20.00%) Tech Ops
6 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
6 4 (16.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (12.00%) DevOps
7 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (12.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
8 2 (8.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (12.00%) Python
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) Go
2 1 (4.00%) Groovy
2 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) CCIE
3 2 (8.00%) CCNA
3 2 (8.00%) CCNP
3 2 (8.00%) CCSA
3 2 (8.00%) CCSE
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Firmware
2 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.00%) Docker
4 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.00%) SCCM
3 2 (8.00%) SCOM
4 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) CheckPoint
1 9 (36.00%) Cisco
1 9 (36.00%) Fortinet
1 9 (36.00%) Meraki
2 8 (32.00%) SolarWinds
3 7 (28.00%) Dynatrace
4 6 (24.00%) Infoblox
5 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (12.00%) VMware
7 2 (8.00%) Splunk
7 2 (8.00%) Zscaler
8 1 (4.00%) Citrix
8 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
8 1 (4.00%) Oracle
8 1 (4.00%) Proofpoint
8 1 (4.00%) SendGrid