Operations Engineer Jobs in the North West

Operations Engineer
England > North West

The median Operations Engineer salary in the North West is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 301 294
Rank change year-on-year +58 -7 -48
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 47 5 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.48% 0.063% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.071% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 40 5 41
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,050 -
25th Percentile £40,344 £40,750 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £46,500 £55,168
Median % change year-on-year +39.78% -15.71% +10.34%
75th Percentile - £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,350 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,168
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.04% +6.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,197 7,052 9,047
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.10% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,072 4,085 5,491
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,400 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the North West

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the North West

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the North West

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester +62 38 £65,000 +52.94% 3
Merseyside - 9 £43,750 -
Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 West region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (38.30%) Azure
2 15 (31.91%) Cisco
3 14 (29.79%) Juniper
3 14 (29.79%) Fortinet
3 14 (29.79%) JNCIA
3 14 (29.79%) JNCIP
3 14 (29.79%) Palo Alto
4 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (21.28%) Data Science
5 10 (21.28%) DataOps
5 10 (21.28%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (14.89%) IaaS
7 7 (14.89%) PaaS
7 7 (14.89%) ETL
7 7 (14.89%) SQL
7 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
7 7 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
8 6 (12.77%) LAN
8 6 (12.77%) WAN
8 6 (12.77%) DHCP
8 6 (12.77%) DNS
8 6 (12.77%) SIEM
8 6 (12.77%) Analytics
8 6 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (12.77%) Entra ID
8 6 (12.77%) Security Operations
9 5 (10.64%) Data Centre
9 5 (10.64%) ITIL

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 18 (38.30%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (14.89%) IaaS
3 7 (14.89%) PaaS
4 6 (12.77%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.38%) SaaS
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.26%) AWS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) DHCP
1 6 (12.77%) DNS
1 6 (12.77%) LAN
1 6 (12.77%) WAN
2 5 (10.64%) Firewall
3 4 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (6.38%) Network Security
5 1 (2.13%) BGP
5 1 (2.13%) Internet
5 1 (2.13%) OSPF
5 1 (2.13%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (2.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (6.38%) Finance
1 3 (6.38%) Marketing
1 3 (6.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.26%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.51%) Driving Licence
3 3 (6.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (6.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
1 2 (4.26%) Windows 10
1 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (21.28%) Data Science
2 10 (21.28%) DataOps
3 7 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (14.89%) ETL
4 6 (12.77%) Analytics
4 6 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (12.77%) Security Operations
4 6 (12.77%) SIEM
5 5 (10.64%) ITIL
6 4 (8.51%) Coaching
6 4 (8.51%) Data Centre Operations
6 4 (8.51%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (8.51%) Ergonomics
6 4 (8.51%) Human Factors
6 4 (8.51%) ITSM
6 4 (8.51%) Physics
6 4 (8.51%) Runbook
7 3 (6.38%) Incident Response
7 3 (6.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) SQL
2 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.26%) Python
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) JNCIA
1 14 (29.79%) JNCIP
2 4 (8.51%) A+ Certification
2 4 (8.51%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.13%) MCSE
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.38%) NIST
1 3 (6.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (31.91%) Cisco
2 14 (29.79%) Fortinet
2 14 (29.79%) Juniper
2 14 (29.79%) Palo Alto
3 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.51%) Veeam
5 2 (4.26%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.13%) VMware