Operations Support Engineer Jobs

Operations Support Engineer
UK

The median Operations Support Engineer salary in the UK is £34,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 862 981 1171
Rank change year-on-year +119 +190 -295
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Support Engineer 32 12 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.011% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.013% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 9
10th Percentile £27,000 - -
25th Percentile £27,188 £45,000 £31,133
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £46,250 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.95% +23.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £42,500 £62,500 £39,500
90th Percentile - £65,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,250 £47,500 £31,133
% change year-on-year -27.89% +52.57% -4.21%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Operations Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Support Engineer in the UK

Operations Support Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Operations Support Engineer in the UK

Operations Support Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Support Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Support Engineer in the UK

Operations Support Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Support Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +139 32 £34,250 -25.95% 5
UK excluding London +26 31 £34,250 -27.89% 4
North of England +58 15 £27,000 -43.16%
Midlands - 15 £40,000 - 2
West Midlands - 10 - - 1
Yorkshire +102 7 - -
East Midlands - 5 £40,000 - 1
North West - 5 £27,000 -
North East - 3 - -
Work from Home +78 2 - -
London +133 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Operations Support 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 Support Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (71.88%) Active Directory
2 21 (65.63%) SCCM
2 21 (65.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (62.50%) Fat Client
3 20 (62.50%) Agile
3 20 (62.50%) Project Planning
3 20 (62.50%) Service Delivery
3 20 (62.50%) Change Management
3 20 (62.50%) Thin Client
3 20 (62.50%) ITIL
3 20 (62.50%) VoIP
4 17 (53.13%) Asset Management
5 9 (28.13%) Windows
6 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
8 6 (18.75%) Patch Management
8 6 (18.75%) Azure
8 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
8 6 (18.75%) Firewall
9 5 (15.63%) Law
9 5 (15.63%) Clustering
9 5 (15.63%) SAN
9 5 (15.63%) SQL
9 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
9 5 (15.63%) IIS
9 5 (15.63%) VPN
9 5 (15.63%) High Availability
9 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (12.50%) Analytics

Operations Support 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 5 (15.63%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (62.50%) VoIP
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 5 (15.63%) SAN
3 5 (15.63%) VPN
4 4 (12.50%) Network Security
5 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (3.13%) DHCP
6 1 (3.13%) DNS
6 1 (3.13%) LAN
6 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (15.63%) Law
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Marketing
2 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 20 (62.50%) Fat Client
1 20 (62.50%) Thin Client
2 5 (15.63%) Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (62.50%) Agile
2 20 (62.50%) Change Management
2 20 (62.50%) ITIL
2 20 (62.50%) Project Planning
2 20 (62.50%) Service Delivery
3 17 (53.13%) Asset Management
4 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.75%) Patch Management
6 5 (15.63%) High Availability
7 4 (12.50%) Analytics
7 4 (12.50%) Security Management
8 3 (9.38%) CRM
8 3 (9.38%) Facilities Management
8 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (9.38%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (9.38%) Network Security Management
8 3 (9.38%) Project Management
8 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (9.38%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
1 1 (3.13%) GxP
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (71.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (65.63%) SCCM
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.13%) DatAdvantage
3 1 (3.13%) QRadar
3 1 (3.13%) Stealthwatch
3 1 (3.13%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Cisco
2 2 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (3.13%) Intel
3 1 (3.13%) NetApp
3 1 (3.13%) Qualys
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) Symantec
3 1 (3.13%) Varonis