Operations Engineer Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Operations Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Operations Engineer salary in Oxfordshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.15% - 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £37,000
75th Percentile £68,750 - £38,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £46,875 £48,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.63% -24.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 641 1,050 648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 95.37% 90.76%
Number of salaries quoted 379 578 518
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,850 £33,981
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,188 £42,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £54,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.24% -1.59% -

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in Oxfordshire

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Motion Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Animation
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Motion Capture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes