Operations Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Operations Engineer salary in the North of England is £45,497 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 280 255
Rank change year-on-year +38 -25 +163
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 17 7 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.16% 0.077% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.082% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 21
10th Percentile - £31,350 £41,875
25th Percentile £44,972 £31,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £33,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.87% -45.00% +46.34%
75th Percentile £46,022 £45,326 £72,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,130 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £51,058 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.31% -7.17% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 9,493 8,534 8,200
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.64% 94.06% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,527 4,016 6,544
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,875 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +0.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,070
90th Percentile £82,344 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.81% -6.02%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Operations Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the North of England

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
North West +30 8 £45,497 +37.87% 2
North East - 8 £45,497 - 1
Yorkshire -7 1 £41,075 - 2
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Operations Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (58.82%) Mentoring
2 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (47.06%) Linux
3 8 (47.06%) Windows
4 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Coaching
4 7 (41.18%) ITIL
4 7 (41.18%) Service Management
4 7 (41.18%) Systems Thinking
4 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
5 4 (23.53%) Azure
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) GitHub
6 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (17.65%) Grafana
6 3 (17.65%) Observability
6 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
6 3 (17.65%) Terraform
7 2 (11.76%) AWS
7 2 (11.76%) ChatOps
7 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) DataOps
7 2 (11.76%) Degree
7 2 (11.76%) GitLab
7 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
7 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 2 (11.76%) MLOps
7 2 (11.76%) People Management

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) GitHub
2 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Slack
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) git-flow
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) Node.js
1 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Acoustics
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
1 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Mentoring
2 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) Coaching
3 7 (41.18%) ITIL
3 7 (41.18%) Service Management
3 7 (41.18%) Systems Thinking
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Observability
6 2 (11.76%) ChatOps
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) DataOps
6 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.76%) MLOps
6 2 (11.76%) People Management
7 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.88%) Information Security
7 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Bash
1 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Grafana
1 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Argo
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes