Operations Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 679 676
Rank change year-on-year +82 -3 -90
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 161 80 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.15% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 124 56 114
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,133
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £65,313 £57,813 £57,901
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,999 £54,100
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.90% +6.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,682 54,970 67,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,230 31,194 42,991
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +87 63 £65,000 +36.84% 9
North West +50 47 £65,000 +39.78% 5
Midlands +35 43 £40,000 -15.79% 6
West Midlands +43 30 £42,500 -10.53% 1
East of England +33 22 £70,000 -
East Midlands -2 13 £40,000 +14.29% 5
Scotland - 13 £33,000 - 1
Yorkshire +89 11 £85,000 +60.38% 3
South East -9 11 £55,000 +18.92% 11
South West -20 9 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North East +1 5 £60,232 +41.72% 1
Wales - 2 £28,750 - 3
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (37.89%) Azure
2 54 (33.54%) Active Directory
3 47 (29.19%) Microsoft
4 44 (27.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 41 (25.47%) ITIL
6 38 (23.60%) Windows
7 35 (21.74%) Cisco
8 30 (18.63%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (16.15%) VoIP
12 25 (15.53%) Agile
13 24 (14.91%) Windows Server
13 24 (14.91%) Change Management
14 23 (14.29%) DHCP
14 23 (14.29%) DNS
15 22 (13.66%) SQL
15 22 (13.66%) Firewall
15 22 (13.66%) Service Delivery
15 22 (13.66%) AWS
15 22 (13.66%) Social Skills
16 21 (13.04%) SCCM
17 20 (12.42%) PowerShell
17 20 (12.42%) Project Planning
17 20 (12.42%) Fat Client
17 20 (12.42%) Thin Client
17 20 (12.42%) Cloud Operations
18 18 (11.18%) Asset Management
18 18 (11.18%) Entra ID
18 18 (11.18%) Security Operations

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (6.83%) IIS
2 4 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 61 (37.89%) Azure
2 30 (18.63%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (13.66%) AWS
4 18 (11.18%) Entra ID
5 13 (8.07%) IaaS
5 13 (8.07%) PaaS
6 12 (7.45%) SaaS
7 10 (6.21%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.48%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 1 (0.62%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.15%) VoIP
2 23 (14.29%) DHCP
2 23 (14.29%) DNS
3 22 (13.66%) Firewall
4 17 (10.56%) WAN
5 13 (8.07%) LAN
6 10 (6.21%) VPN
7 9 (5.59%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (3.73%) Network Security
8 6 (3.73%) SAN
8 6 (3.73%) TCP/IP
9 5 (3.11%) Internet
9 5 (3.11%) VLAN
10 4 (2.48%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.62%) BGP
11 1 (0.62%) FTP
11 1 (0.62%) HTTP
11 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.62%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.62%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (2.48%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.62%) GitLab
General
1 22 (13.66%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.70%) Law
3 13 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.35%) Finance
5 3 (1.86%) Legal
5 3 (1.86%) Marketing
6 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.62%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.62%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.73%) Node.js
2 2 (1.24%) ADO
3 1 (0.62%) .NET
3 1 (0.62%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.62%) HTML
3 1 (0.62%) OpenID
3 1 (0.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.42%) Fat Client
1 20 (12.42%) Thin Client
2 14 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.59%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.97%) IoT
5 6 (3.73%) Clustering
5 6 (3.73%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.73%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (3.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.11%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.24%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.24%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.62%) CMDB
9 1 (0.62%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.62%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.60%) Windows
2 24 (14.91%) Windows Server
3 16 (9.94%) Linux
4 8 (4.97%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.73%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.48%) VMS
7 2 (1.24%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.62%) Unix
8 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (25.47%) ITIL
3 29 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (15.53%) Agile
6 24 (14.91%) Change Management
7 22 (13.66%) Service Delivery
8 20 (12.42%) Cloud Operations
8 20 (12.42%) Project Planning
9 18 (11.18%) Asset Management
9 18 (11.18%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (11.18%) Security Operations
10 16 (9.94%) High Availability
11 14 (8.70%) SIEM
12 12 (7.45%) Customer Service
12 12 (7.45%) DevOps
13 11 (6.83%) ITSM
14 10 (6.21%) Data Science
14 10 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (6.21%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.66%) SQL
2 20 (12.42%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.45%) JavaScript
4 10 (6.21%) Python
5 7 (4.35%) C#
6 6 (3.73%) C++
6 6 (3.73%) Java
6 6 (3.73%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.24%) Bash
7 2 (1.24%) Ruby
7 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.62%) C
8 1 (0.62%) Go
8 1 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (8.70%) JNCIA
1 14 (8.70%) JNCIP
2 9 (5.59%) A+ Certification
2 9 (5.59%) Network+ Certification
3 7 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.11%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.48%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.24%) Degree
6 2 (1.24%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.62%) CCNA
7 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.62%) MCSE
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.11%) NIST
3 4 (2.48%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.48%) QA
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.62%) GDPR
4 1 (0.62%) GRC
4 1 (0.62%) GxP
System Software
1 54 (33.54%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.97%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.24%) Docker
6 1 (0.62%) Samba
Systems Management
1 21 (13.04%) SCCM
2 9 (5.59%) Terraform
3 8 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.35%) Opsgenie
5 6 (3.73%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.24%) CASB
6 2 (1.24%) Nagios
6 2 (1.24%) Puppet
6 2 (1.24%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.62%) Ansible
7 1 (0.62%) DatAdvantage
7 1 (0.62%) Grafana
7 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.62%) QRadar
7 1 (0.62%) Stealthwatch
7 1 (0.62%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.62%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (29.19%) Microsoft
2 35 (21.74%) Cisco
3 17 (10.56%) VMware
4 14 (8.70%) Fortinet
4 14 (8.70%) Juniper
4 14 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 14 (8.70%) Veeam
5 10 (6.21%) Meraki
6 6 (3.73%) Remedy
7 5 (3.11%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.48%) Barracuda Networks
8 4 (2.48%) Citrix
8 4 (2.48%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.48%) Cylance
8 4 (2.48%) McAfee
9 3 (1.86%) Qualys
9 3 (1.86%) Varonis
10 2 (1.24%) Forcepoint
10 2 (1.24%) LogRhythm
10 2 (1.24%) Zscaler