Operations Engineer
UK

The median Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 687 788 840
Rank change year-on-year +101 +52 -135
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 218 184 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 167 152 222
10th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £32,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +8.13% +6.08%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £66,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +124 197 £60,000 +4.35% 45
UK excluding London +80 161 £55,000 +15.79% 28
Work from Home +95 86 £65,000 +13.04% 15
North of England +102 64 £62,732 +32.07% 8
London +67 51 £60,000 -10.45% 20
North West +56 47 £65,000 +39.78% 4
Midlands +16 42 £40,000 -15.79% 7
West Midlands +27 28 £42,500 -10.53% 1
East of England +41 22 £70,000 -
East Midlands -5 14 £40,000 +14.29% 6
Scotland - 13 £33,000 - 1
Yorkshire +91 11 £85,000 +60.38% 2
South West -21 10 £60,000 +9.09% 3
South East -27 9 £55,000 +18.92% 7
North East +1 6 £60,000 +41.18% 2
Wales - 3 £28,750 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (41.28%) Azure
2 64 (29.36%) Active Directory
3 60 (27.52%) Microsoft
4 54 (24.77%) ITIL
5 50 (22.94%) Windows
6 47 (21.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 42 (19.27%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (17.43%) AWS
9 38 (17.43%) Agile
10 35 (16.06%) Cisco
11 32 (14.68%) Python
12 31 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (13.76%) Windows Server
13 30 (13.76%) Linux
14 29 (13.30%) PowerShell
14 29 (13.30%) Entra ID
15 27 (12.39%) Terraform
15 27 (12.39%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (12.39%) Firewall
16 26 (11.93%) VoIP
16 26 (11.93%) DevOps
16 26 (11.93%) Social Skills
17 25 (11.47%) Kubernetes
18 24 (11.01%) Change Management
18 24 (11.01%) DHCP
18 24 (11.01%) DNS
18 24 (11.01%) SQL
18 24 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
19 23 (10.55%) Cloud Operations

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (5.50%) IIS
2 6 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 90 (41.28%) Azure
2 42 (19.27%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (17.43%) AWS
4 29 (13.30%) Entra ID
5 19 (8.72%) IaaS
5 19 (8.72%) PaaS
5 19 (8.72%) SaaS
6 13 (5.96%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.75%) OneDrive
9 5 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.38%) Azure Storage
10 3 (1.38%) Datadog
11 2 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.92%) GitHub
12 1 (0.46%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.39%) Firewall
2 26 (11.93%) VoIP
3 24 (11.01%) DHCP
3 24 (11.01%) DNS
4 20 (9.17%) WAN
5 16 (7.34%) LAN
6 15 (6.88%) VPN
7 14 (6.42%) TCP/IP
8 12 (5.50%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (5.05%) Network Security
10 7 (3.21%) Internet
10 7 (3.21%) SAN
11 5 (2.29%) BGP
11 5 (2.29%) OSPF
11 5 (2.29%) VLAN
12 4 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 4 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (1.83%) MPLS
12 4 (1.83%) tcpdump
12 4 (1.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.92%) MySQL
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.46%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.46%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.46%) Git
5 1 (0.46%) GitLab
5 1 (0.46%) JMeter
5 1 (0.46%) MLflow
5 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 26 (11.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (8.72%) Finance
2 19 (8.72%) Law
3 16 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (1.83%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.38%) Legal
6 3 (1.38%) Marketing
7 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.92%) Police
7 2 (0.92%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.46%) Retail
8 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.75%) Node.js
2 5 (2.29%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (0.92%) ADO
4 1 (0.46%) .NET
4 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.46%) boto
4 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.46%) HTML
4 1 (0.46%) OpenID
4 1 (0.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.17%) Fat Client
1 20 (9.17%) Thin Client
2 16 (7.34%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.42%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.96%) Linux Command Line
5 12 (5.50%) Driving Licence
5 12 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.67%) Clustering
6 8 (3.67%) IoT
7 6 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.75%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 5 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.94%) Windows
2 30 (13.76%) Linux
2 30 (13.76%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.13%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.83%) VMS
8 2 (0.92%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.92%) Unix
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (24.77%) ITIL
2 47 (21.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (17.43%) Agile
5 31 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (12.39%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (11.93%) DevOps
8 24 (11.01%) Change Management
8 24 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (10.55%) Cloud Operations
9 23 (10.55%) Service Delivery
10 22 (10.09%) Security Operations
11 21 (9.63%) CI/CD
12 20 (9.17%) Project Planning
13 18 (8.26%) Asset Management
13 18 (8.26%) SIEM
14 17 (7.80%) ITSM
15 16 (7.34%) High Availability
16 14 (6.42%) Mentoring
17 13 (5.96%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.68%) Python
2 29 (13.30%) PowerShell
3 24 (11.01%) SQL
4 16 (7.34%) Java
5 13 (5.96%) JavaScript
6 11 (5.05%) Perl
7 7 (3.21%) C#
8 6 (2.75%) C++
8 6 (2.75%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.38%) Bash
9 3 (1.38%) Ruby
10 2 (0.92%) PHP
10 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.46%) C
11 1 (0.46%) Go
11 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (6.42%) JNCIA
1 14 (6.42%) JNCIP
2 12 (5.50%) A+ Certification
2 12 (5.50%) Degree
2 12 (5.50%) Network+ Certification
3 8 (3.67%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.29%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.38%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.38%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.92%) HNC
7 2 (0.92%) HND
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) CCNA
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.46%) MCSE
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.29%) NIST
2 5 (2.29%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.83%) QA
3 4 (1.83%) SLA
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) GRC
4 1 (0.46%) GxP
4 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 64 (29.36%) Active Directory
2 20 (9.17%) Docker
3 11 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.67%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.46%) Samba
Systems Management
1 27 (12.39%) Terraform
2 25 (11.47%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.55%) SCCM
4 13 (5.96%) Ansible
4 13 (5.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (5.50%) Puppet
6 10 (4.59%) Progress Chef
6 10 (4.59%) Salt
7 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Clustering
7 7 (3.21%) Opsgenie
8 4 (1.83%) CASB
9 2 (0.92%) Grafana
9 2 (0.92%) Nagios
9 2 (0.92%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.46%) DatAdvantage
10 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.46%) QRadar
10 1 (0.46%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 1 (0.46%) WSUS
10 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (27.52%) Microsoft
2 35 (16.06%) Cisco
3 18 (8.26%) VMware
4 17 (7.80%) Veeam
5 14 (6.42%) Fortinet
5 14 (6.42%) Juniper
5 14 (6.42%) Palo Alto
6 10 (4.59%) Meraki
7 6 (2.75%) Citrix
7 6 (2.75%) Remedy
8 5 (2.29%) Qualys
9 4 (1.83%) Barracuda Networks
9 4 (1.83%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.83%) Cylance
9 4 (1.83%) F5
9 4 (1.83%) McAfee
10 3 (1.38%) CA
10 3 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.38%) Varonis
11 2 (0.92%) LogRhythm