Operations Engineer Job Trends in the West Midlands

Operations Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Operations Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 February 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 181 205
Rank change year-on-year +11 +24 +77
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 12 11 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.20% 0.29% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.31% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 16
10th Percentile - £32,000 £35,875
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,338 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,348 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% +16.11% -
75th Percentile £63,125 £61,549 £57,813
90th Percentile £71,750 £65,886 £63,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £49,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +32.65% -14.78% -6.12%

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 5,481 3,514 5,067
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 91.70% 93.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,270 1,724 4,107
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,875 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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
Herefordshire - 8 £53,750 - 1
Staffordshire -9 2 £62,500 +80.28% 1
Coventry - 2 £70,000 -
Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 February 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 9 (75.00%) Azure
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (58.33%) Cisco
3 7 (58.33%) Cloud Security
3 7 (58.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (58.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (58.33%) Data Migration
3 7 (58.33%) DHCP
3 7 (58.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (58.33%) DNS
3 7 (58.33%) Entra ID
3 7 (58.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (58.33%) ITIL
3 7 (58.33%) LAN
3 7 (58.33%) Meraki
3 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (58.33%) Migration
3 7 (58.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (58.33%) Service Delivery
3 7 (58.33%) SharePoint
3 7 (58.33%) VPN
3 7 (58.33%) WAN
3 7 (58.33%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared

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 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (58.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Entra ID
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) DHCP
1 7 (58.33%) DNS
1 7 (58.33%) LAN
1 7 (58.33%) VPN
1 7 (58.33%) WAN
1 7 (58.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Billing
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) Derivative
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) Cloud Security
2 7 (58.33%) Data Migration
2 7 (58.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (58.33%) ITIL
2 7 (58.33%) Migration
2 7 (58.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 7 (58.33%) Service Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (8.33%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (58.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 7 (58.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 7 (58.33%) Meraki
3 1 (8.33%) Google