Operations Engineer Jobs in Southampton

Operations Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Operations Engineer salary in Southampton is £41,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 0.47% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 - -
75th Percentile £42,875 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -13.16% +11.76% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 413 850 490
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.41% 98.38% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 292 687 379
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,625 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £78,750
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Southampton

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in Southampton.

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in Southampton

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton

For the 6 months to 14 August 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 Southampton region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) MLOps
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks