Operations Engineer Job Trends in Merseyside

Operations Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Operations Engineer salary in Merseyside is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 62 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.34% 0.24% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.25% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £27,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +140.74% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £55,000 £35,000 £50,750
% change year-on-year +57.14% -31.03% -15.42%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 531 787 469
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 96.33% 90.02%
Number of salaries quoted 250 535 349
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% +3.40%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,298 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Merseyside

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside.

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Merseyside

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Liverpool +9 2 £65,000 +140.74% 1
Operations Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 Merseyside region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Metaflow
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (50.00%) git-flow
2 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Pandas
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Keras
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Trunk-Based Development
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) git-flow
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Trunk-Based Development
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks