Operations Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Operations Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £43,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 155 211
Rank change year-on-year -41 +56 -21
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 16 10 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.31% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.34% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 14 7 4
10th Percentile £32,375 £44,750 £32,510
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,875 £35,524
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £60,000 £40,753
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +47.23% -14.21%
75th Percentile £62,938 £68,750 £49,063
90th Percentile £65,448 £72,500 £54,125
England median annual salary £53,500 £51,058 £57,750
% change year-on-year +4.78% -11.59% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 8,408 2,977 5,737
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 91.46% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,132 1,995 3,314
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £28,772
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,500 £79,418
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Operations Engineer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Operations Engineer job vacancies 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 20 September 2026.

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 20 September 2026. 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 +9 8 £35,000 -44.00% 1
Birmingham -26 6 £64,038 +34.82%
Coventry -20 1 £54,500 -22.14%
Herefordshire - 1 £45,000 -
Operations Engineer
England

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 September 2026, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Data Centre Operations
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Innovative Thinking
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) ITSM
4 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 3 (18.75%) Linux
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (18.75%) NetApp
4 3 (18.75%) Network Security
4 3 (18.75%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (18.75%) SAN
4 3 (18.75%) Server Management
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Network Security
1 3 (18.75%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) DHCP
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) General Ledger
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
1 2 (12.50%) Web Services
1 2 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
2 3 (18.75%) Data Centre Operations
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) Innovative Thinking
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) ITSM
2 3 (18.75%) Server Management
2 3 (18.75%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (18.75%) Workflow
3 2 (12.50%) Accounts Payable
3 2 (12.50%) Cash Management
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (12.50%) Coaching
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (12.50%) Personalization
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
2 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) NetApp
2 3 (18.75%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Databricks