Operations Engineer Jobs in the South East

Operations Engineer
England > South East

The median Operations Engineer salary in the South East is £35,000 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 291 388 366
Rank change year-on-year +97 -22 +92
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 6 9 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.063% 0.054% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.057% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 29
10th Percentile £32,000 £47,150 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,125 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +22.22% +4.65%
75th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £48,125 £61,000 £65,000
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,254 15,768 12,916
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.53% 94.01% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,528 11,302 8,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the South East

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the South East

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the South East

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the South East 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
Hampshire - 6 £35,000 - 5
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Facebook
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Email Filtering
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (33.33%) BT
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (33.33%) Supplier Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Android
3 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
3 2 (33.33%) GPON
3 2 (33.33%) Social Media
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) CCNA
4 1 (16.67%) Dell
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) DWDM
4 1 (16.67%) MPLS

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) GPON
2 2 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) DWDM
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Android
2 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (33.33%) Email Filtering
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) JNCIA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) BT
1 2 (33.33%) Facebook
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper