Operations Engineer Jobs in Swindon

Operations Engineer
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Operations Engineer salary in Swindon is £51,058 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 6 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swindon 4.26% - 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.69% - 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,165 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 - -
75th Percentile £53,951 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median annual salary £51,058 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Swindon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Swindon. 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 Swindon with a recognized job title 128 426 374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 93.83% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 98 365 279
10th Percentile £31,750 £26,250 £30,400
25th Percentile £48,165 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,143 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.44% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,568 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile - £70,000 £74,701
Wiltshire median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Swindon

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in Swindon

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in Swindon

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 Swindon region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Information Security
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (66.67%) Data Collection
2 4 (66.67%) API Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 4 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (66.67%) VPN
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (33.33%) CISSP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) CISM
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Docker
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Forensic Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (66.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (100.00%) Information Security
1 6 (100.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (66.67%) API Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Data Collection
2 4 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Blue Team
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Forensic Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CISM
2 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft