Operations Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Operations Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Operations Engineer salary in Manchester is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 236 233
Rank change year-on-year +53 -3 -
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 38 3 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.73% 0.061% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.067% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 35 3 20
10th Percentile £32,900 £29,150 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £33,500 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £47,347
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -10.24% -
75th Percentile - £48,000 £56,300
90th Percentile £72,500 £50,550 £57,901
North West median annual salary £65,000 £46,500 £55,168
% change year-on-year +39.78% -15.71% +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,911 4,500 5,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 91.91% 96.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,789 2,648 3,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,729 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,988 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in Manchester

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 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
Stockport +30 2 £28,500 +3.64%
Rochdale - 1 £33,000 - 1
Operations Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Manchester region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (39.47%) Cisco
2 14 (36.84%) Juniper
2 14 (36.84%) JNCIA
2 14 (36.84%) JNCIP
2 14 (36.84%) Fortinet
2 14 (36.84%) Palo Alto
3 11 (28.95%) Azure
4 10 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (26.32%) DataOps
4 10 (26.32%) Data Science
5 7 (18.42%) ETL
5 7 (18.42%) SQL
5 7 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (13.16%) Firewall
6 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
7 4 (10.53%) Data Centre Operations
7 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (10.53%) Runbook
7 4 (10.53%) Analytics
8 3 (7.89%) IaaS
8 3 (7.89%) SaaS
8 3 (7.89%) PaaS
8 3 (7.89%) SIEM
8 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (7.89%) Change Management
8 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (7.89%) Problem Management
8 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
8 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
8 3 (7.89%) Threat Intelligence

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 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) IaaS
2 3 (7.89%) PaaS
2 3 (7.89%) SaaS
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) DHCP
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) LAN
2 2 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (2.63%) BGP
3 1 (2.63%) Internet
3 1 (2.63%) Network Security
3 1 (2.63%) OSPF
3 1 (2.63%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (2.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (5.26%) Legal
2 1 (2.63%) Finance
2 1 (2.63%) Marketing
2 1 (2.63%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (7.89%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
1 2 (5.26%) Windows 10
1 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Data Science
1 10 (26.32%) DataOps
2 7 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (18.42%) ETL
3 4 (10.53%) Analytics
3 4 (10.53%) Data Centre Operations
3 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (10.53%) Runbook
4 3 (7.89%) Change Management
4 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (7.89%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (7.89%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (7.89%) Incident Response
4 3 (7.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (7.89%) Security Operations
4 3 (7.89%) SIEM
4 3 (7.89%) SOAR
4 3 (7.89%) Threat Detection
4 3 (7.89%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) SQL
2 2 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) Bash
3 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) JNCIA
1 14 (36.84%) JNCIP
2 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.63%) MCSE
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.89%) NIST
1 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Cisco
2 14 (36.84%) Fortinet
2 14 (36.84%) Juniper
2 14 (36.84%) Palo Alto
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.63%) VMware