Senior Operations Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Operations Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Operations Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 493 606
Rank change year-on-year +103 +113 +269
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 3 10 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.042% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.045% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 12
10th Percentile £68,500 £47,625 £50,850
25th Percentile £73,750 £48,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £52,500 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -17.00% -27.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile - £88,875 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +11.11% -2.50%

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 11,585 22,238 32,603
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.13% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,454 16,672 24,036
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £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%

Senior Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Operations Engineer in London

Senior Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Operations Engineer in London

Senior Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Operations Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Zscaler
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) Infoblox
2 2 (66.67%) Network Management
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Meraki
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Firmware
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 2 (66.67%) Network Management
2 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) Infoblox
1 2 (66.67%) Meraki
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) Zscaler