Operations Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Operations Engineer salary in the Midlands is £45,000 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 244 273 309
Rank change year-on-year +29 +36 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 8 43 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.12% 0.37% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.39% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 33 9
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,750 £37,199 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £50,250 £84,500 £50,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% -1.71% +8.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,353 11,023 8,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 94.33% 89.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,854 8,245 4,769
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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 Midlands +27 7 £46,250 +8.82% 13
East Midlands +41 1 £40,000 - 10
Operations Engineer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Firewall
4 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) Confluence
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) Email Filtering
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (12.50%) GitLab
5 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
5 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Law
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) FMCG
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (25.00%) Email Filtering
3 2 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) VMware