Operations Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Operations Engineer salary in Manchester is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 180 237
Rank change year-on-year +36 +57 -7
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 5 38 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.23% 0.74% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.79% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 4 35 3
10th Percentile - £32,900 £29,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +52.94% -10.24%
75th Percentile £64,375 - £48,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £72,500 £50,550
North West median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -26.92% +39.78% -14.89%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,941 4,840 4,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.62% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,282 3,745 2,661
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,107 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,925 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Manchester

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in Manchester

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Manchester region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Server Management
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) PagerDuty
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) CentOS
3 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Puppet
4 1 (20.00%) Network Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) SCCM
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 2 (40.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) MLOps
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (40.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Hitachi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware