Operations Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Operations Engineer
England > North of England

The median Operations Engineer salary in the North of England is £62,732 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 422 380
Rank change year-on-year +98 -42 -30
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 64 16 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.093% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.10% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 46 12 65
10th Percentile £28,875 £40,800 £36,649
25th Percentile £41,875 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,732 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.07% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £69,900 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year +4.35% +6.28% +3.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,585 15,443 17,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 89.57% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,833 8,208 11,000
10th Percentile £27,260 £30,500 £27,988
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,544 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the North of England

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer 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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +46 47 £65,000 +39.78% 5
Yorkshire +84 11 £85,000 +60.38% 2
North East +1 6 £60,000 +41.18% 2
Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, 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 of England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (34.38%) Azure
2 16 (25.00%) ITIL
2 16 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 15 (23.44%) Cisco
4 14 (21.88%) Palo Alto
4 14 (21.88%) Fortinet
4 14 (21.88%) JNCIA
4 14 (21.88%) JNCIP
4 14 (21.88%) Juniper
5 13 (20.31%) Agile
5 13 (20.31%) Change Management
5 13 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (17.19%) Service Delivery
6 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (15.63%) Data Science
7 10 (15.63%) DataOps
7 10 (15.63%) Asset Management
7 10 (15.63%) Thin Client
7 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
7 10 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (15.63%) VoIP
7 10 (15.63%) Project Planning
7 10 (15.63%) Fat Client
7 10 (15.63%) SCCM
8 9 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (10.94%) IaaS
9 7 (10.94%) PaaS
9 7 (10.94%) SQL
9 7 (10.94%) ETL
9 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) Azure
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.94%) IaaS
3 7 (10.94%) PaaS
4 6 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.25%) AWS
6 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.69%) SaaS
8 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) VoIP
2 6 (9.38%) DHCP
2 6 (9.38%) DNS
2 6 (9.38%) LAN
2 6 (9.38%) WAN
3 5 (7.81%) Firewall
4 4 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (4.69%) Network Security
6 1 (1.56%) BGP
6 1 (1.56%) Internet
6 1 (1.56%) OSPF
6 1 (1.56%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (1.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 3 (4.69%) Finance
1 3 (4.69%) Marketing
1 3 (4.69%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.13%) Legal
2 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.56%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) ADO
2 1 (1.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Fat Client
1 10 (15.63%) Thin Client
2 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (4.69%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.00%) ITIL
2 13 (20.31%) Agile
2 13 (20.31%) Change Management
2 13 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (17.19%) Service Delivery
4 10 (15.63%) Asset Management
4 10 (15.63%) Data Science
4 10 (15.63%) DataOps
4 10 (15.63%) Project Planning
5 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (10.94%) ETL
6 6 (9.38%) Analytics
6 6 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (9.38%) DevOps
6 6 (9.38%) Security Operations
6 6 (9.38%) SIEM
7 5 (7.81%) Coaching
7 5 (7.81%) ITSM
8 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) SQL
2 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.69%) Python
4 2 (3.13%) Ruby
5 1 (1.56%) Bash
5 1 (1.56%) C#
5 1 (1.56%) PHP
5 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) JNCIA
1 14 (21.88%) JNCIP
2 4 (6.25%) A+ Certification
2 4 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
3 1 (1.56%) MCSE
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.69%) NIST
1 3 (4.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) SCCM
2 3 (4.69%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.13%) Puppet
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.56%) Nagios
4 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Cisco
2 14 (21.88%) Fortinet
2 14 (21.88%) Juniper
2 14 (21.88%) Palo Alto
3 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.25%) Veeam
5 2 (3.13%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.56%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.56%) VMware