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 £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 605 675
Rank change year-on-year +63 +70 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 29 160 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 23 120 61
10th Percentile £36,050 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £53,951 £66,563 £53,750
90th Percentile - £75,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £51,058 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.20% - +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
South West +114 9 £51,058 -14.90% 52
North of England -13 7 £45,000 -30.77% 90
West Midlands +44 6 £47,500 -2.56% 38
Midlands +23 6 £47,500 +18.75% 74
South East +87 4 £40,000 -27.27% 110
North West -40 4 £45,000 -30.77% 50
Yorkshire +55 3 - - 30
Scotland +112 1 - - 18
Wales +45 1 £36,500 +26.96% 15
East of England +23 1 £39,500 -43.57% 54
Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 UK excluding London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (44.83%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
3 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
3 11 (37.93%) AWS
3 11 (37.93%) Windows
4 10 (34.48%) Linux
5 9 (31.03%) Azure
6 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
7 7 (24.14%) VPN
7 7 (24.14%) Degree
8 6 (20.69%) Information Security
8 6 (20.69%) Retail
8 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
8 6 (20.69%) Security Posture
8 6 (20.69%) Security Operations
9 5 (17.24%) Terraform
9 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
9 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
10 4 (13.79%) Firewall
10 4 (13.79%) SQL
10 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
10 4 (13.79%) ITIL
10 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
10 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
10 4 (13.79%) Data Collection
10 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (13.79%) Data Loss Prevention
10 4 (13.79%) Security Operations Centre

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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (37.93%) AWS
3 9 (31.03%) Azure
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.90%) SaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) VPN
2 4 (13.79%) Firewall
3 3 (10.34%) WAN
4 2 (6.90%) Ethernet
4 2 (6.90%) GPON
4 2 (6.90%) LAN
4 2 (6.90%) MPLS
4 2 (6.90%) OSPF
4 2 (6.90%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (3.45%) BGP
5 1 (3.45%) DNS
5 1 (3.45%) DWDM
5 1 (3.45%) Network Security
5 1 (3.45%) SAN
5 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (3.45%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Retail
3 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.34%) Aerospace
4 3 (10.34%) Military
5 2 (6.90%) Finance
6 1 (3.45%) Automotive
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
1 1 (3.45%) HTML
1 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Security Posture
2 4 (13.79%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (6.90%) Social Media
5 1 (3.45%) FMCG
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.45%) PropTech
5 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Windows
2 10 (34.48%) Linux
3 2 (6.90%) Android
3 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
3 2 (6.90%) CentOS
3 2 (6.90%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.90%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
1 6 (20.69%) Information Security
1 6 (20.69%) Security Operations
2 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
2 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.79%) API Integration
3 4 (13.79%) Data Collection
3 4 (13.79%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (13.79%) ITIL
3 4 (13.79%) Threat Detection
4 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
4 3 (10.34%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.34%) Product Requirements
4 3 (10.34%) Project Management
4 3 (10.34%) Server Management
4 3 (10.34%) Validation
4 3 (10.34%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
1 4 (13.79%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) MATLAB
2 3 (10.34%) Perl
2 3 (10.34%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
1 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) Degree
3 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
4 3 (10.34%) PhD
5 2 (6.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (6.90%) CISM
5 2 (6.90%) CISSP
5 2 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.45%) CCNA
6 1 (3.45%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Puppet
4 1 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) VMware
3 2 (6.90%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.90%) BT
3 2 (6.90%) Facebook
3 2 (6.90%) PagerDuty
4 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Cisco
4 1 (3.45%) Dell
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (3.45%) Juniper
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Zscaler