Senior Operations Engineer Job Trends

Senior Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £55,249 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 731 723
Rank change year-on-year +87 -8 +368
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 26 4 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.006% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.006% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 16 4 16
10th Percentile - £69,125 £38,837
25th Percentile £44,972 £75,313 £42,448
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,249 £88,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.75% +54.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,625 £95,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £72,500 - £64,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,249 - £56,750
% change year-on-year - - -5.42%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 45,243 64,602 51,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 95.05% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 27,411 36,584 39,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,509
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,200 £42,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

Senior Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Operations Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Senior Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Operations Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Operations Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Operations Engineer in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 November 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
England +108 24 £55,249 -37.75% 5
UK excluding London - 16 £55,249 - 5
Work from Home +72 15 £45,497 -52.11% 1
North of England - 13 £45,497 -
North West - 6 £55,249 -
North East - 5 £45,497 -
London +82 4 - - 1
Midlands - 3 £70,000 -
West Midlands - 3 £70,000 -
Yorkshire - 2 £53,038 -

Senior Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, Senior Operations Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (38.46%) Mentoring
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) DevOps
2 9 (34.62%) Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Ansible
3 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 8 (30.77%) Terraform
3 8 (30.77%) VMware
3 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
5 6 (23.08%) Azure
5 6 (23.08%) Cisco
5 6 (23.08%) Firewall
5 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
6 5 (19.23%) Coaching
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (19.23%) Degree
6 5 (19.23%) ITIL
6 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
6 5 (19.23%) Python
6 5 (19.23%) Service Management
6 5 (19.23%) Storage Management
6 5 (19.23%) Systems Thinking
7 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
7 4 (15.38%) Asset Management

Senior Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) GCP
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) DHCP
2 4 (15.38%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) LAN
2 4 (15.38%) WAN
2 4 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (7.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) MySQL
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.85%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) git-flow
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 4 (15.38%) Law
1 4 (15.38%) Police
1 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) React
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Derivative
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 9 (34.62%) Linux
3 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) DevOps
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
5 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Coaching
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (19.23%) ITIL
6 5 (19.23%) Service Management
6 5 (19.23%) Storage Management
6 5 (19.23%) Systems Thinking
7 4 (15.38%) Asset Management
7 4 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
7 4 (15.38%) Digital Forensics
7 4 (15.38%) IT Strategy
7 4 (15.38%) Network Architecture
7 4 (15.38%) SEO
7 4 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
1 5 (19.23%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Bash
2 1 (3.85%) Java
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) CCIE
2 4 (15.38%) CCNP
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Ansible
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) CASB
3 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.85%) Argo
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) VMware
2 6 (23.08%) Cisco
2 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 4 (15.38%) Fortinet
3 4 (15.38%) Meraki
4 2 (7.69%) Dell
5 1 (3.85%) Google
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