Operations Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Operations Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 266 259
Rank change year-on-year +49 -7 -36
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 30 12 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.41% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.20% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 20 7 15
10th Percentile - £43,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £46,250 £27,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +15.85% +9.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £48,750 £45,625
90th Percentile £88,750 £52,750 £48,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.13% +3.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,811 5,998 6,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 89.99% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 5,153 3,352 4,771
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,775 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Staffordshire -3 12 £31,000 -23.46%
Birmingham -1 8 £73,750 +28.26% 1
Coventry +33 5 £42,500 -10.53%
Walsall - 3 - -
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 West Midlands region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 15 (50.00%) Windows
3 14 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (40.00%) ITIL
4 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (36.67%) Windows Server
5 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
5 11 (36.67%) Service Delivery
5 11 (36.67%) Agile
6 10 (33.33%) Project Planning
6 10 (33.33%) Fat Client
6 10 (33.33%) SCCM
6 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
6 10 (33.33%) Change Management
6 10 (33.33%) Thin Client
6 10 (33.33%) VoIP
7 9 (30.00%) High Availability
8 8 (26.67%) Azure
9 7 (23.33%) SaaS
9 7 (23.33%) Asset Management
10 6 (20.00%) SQL
10 6 (20.00%) Cisco
10 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
10 6 (20.00%) Linux
10 6 (20.00%) Python
10 6 (20.00%) VMware
10 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (20.00%) Customer Service
11 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (13.33%) IIS
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 8 (26.67%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) SaaS
3 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) VoIP
2 5 (16.67%) DHCP
2 5 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) Internet
3 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (16.67%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Fat Client
1 10 (33.33%) Thin Client
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 11 (36.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.00%) Linux
4 4 (13.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (40.00%) ITIL
2 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (36.67%) Agile
3 11 (36.67%) Service Delivery
4 10 (33.33%) Change Management
4 10 (33.33%) Project Planning
5 9 (30.00%) High Availability
6 7 (23.33%) Asset Management
7 6 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (16.67%) DevOps
8 5 (16.67%) Edge Virtualization
8 5 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
8 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
9 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
9 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (13.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.00%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) SQL
3 5 (16.67%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) C++
3 5 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) SCCM
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Cisco
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (20.00%) VMware
2 5 (16.67%) Remedy