Operations Engineer Jobs in the North East

Operations Engineer
England > North East

The median Operations Engineer salary in the North East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 89 84
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +30
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 2 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.13% 0.39% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.42% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £59,151 -
25th Percentile - £59,469 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +41.18% -27.35%
75th Percentile - £60,995 £43,750
90th Percentile - £61,593 -
England median annual salary £51,058 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.20% +4.55% +1.66%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 1,208 1,432 748
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 75.93% 94.15% 80.43%
Number of salaries quoted 710 1,070 553
10th Percentile £25,084 £25,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £45,000 £49,557
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -9.20% +10.13%
75th Percentile £52,732 £62,200 £61,445
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the North East

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the North East

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Tyne and Wear +16 2 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 North East 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 the North East 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