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 £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 327 415
Rank change year-on-year -4 +88 -44
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 8 63 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.069% 0.36% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.38% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 45 12
10th Percentile - £28,650 £40,800
25th Percentile - £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,465 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +27.29% -5.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,000 £62,438
90th Percentile £51,000 £72,500 £69,900
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +6.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,709 16,656 15,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 94.98% 89.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,748 12,889 8,062
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

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
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 16 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
Yorkshire +62 4 - - 9
North West -37 4 £45,000 -30.77% 23
Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 North of England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) R
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
3 3 (37.50%) Military
3 3 (37.50%) MATLAB
3 3 (37.50%) Perl
3 3 (37.50%) PhD
3 3 (37.50%) Product Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Verification and Validation
3 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (25.00%) Server Management
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement

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 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) OSPF
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
1 3 (37.50%) Military
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) CentOS
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (37.50%) Product Requirements
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 3 (37.50%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Open Source
3 2 (25.00%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) E-Discovery
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (12.50%) Network Management
4 1 (12.50%) Operational Stability
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) MATLAB
1 3 (37.50%) Perl
1 3 (37.50%) R
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
2 3 (37.50%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (25.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (12.50%) Intapp
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) VMware