Operations Engineer Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Operations Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Operations Engineer salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 2 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.47% 0.53% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.54% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 407 1,101 590
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 98.04% 85.76%
Number of salaries quoted 282 898 383
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £31,599 £37,099 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,125 £80,000 £73,750
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +10.53%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 4 July 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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
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
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%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks