Operations Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Operations Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £51,058 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 503 613
Rank change year-on-year +136 +110 +55
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 30 89 60
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.27% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 22 83 56
10th Percentile £37,775 £41,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,125 £53,125 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.45% +12.07% -3.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £74,750 £77,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £59,999
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +10.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Operations Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Operations Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Operations Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Operations Engineer.

Operations Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Operations Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (36.67%) AWS
3 10 (33.33%) Firewall
4 9 (30.00%) Windows
4 9 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 8 (26.67%) VPN
5 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
5 8 (26.67%) Kalman Filter
6 6 (20.00%) Azure
6 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 6 (20.00%) Firmware
6 6 (20.00%) CheckPoint
6 6 (20.00%) WAN
6 6 (20.00%) Linux
6 6 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
6 6 (20.00%) Information Security
6 6 (20.00%) Agile
6 6 (20.00%) Retail
6 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
6 6 (20.00%) Fortinet
6 6 (20.00%) Security Posture
6 6 (20.00%) Police
6 6 (20.00%) Tech Ops
6 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (16.67%) Change Management
7 5 (16.67%) Cisco ASA

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) nginx
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.33%) Datadog
6 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) Firewall
2 8 (26.67%) VPN
3 6 (20.00%) WAN
4 5 (16.67%) BGP
4 5 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (16.67%) MPLS
4 5 (16.67%) OSPF
4 5 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (13.33%) LAN
5 4 (13.33%) WLAN
6 3 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (10.00%) IPsec
6 3 (10.00%) NetScaler
6 3 (10.00%) NX-OS
6 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
6 3 (10.00%) VXLAN
7 2 (6.67%) DWDM
7 2 (6.67%) GPON
7 2 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (20.00%) Police
1 6 (20.00%) Retail
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
2 6 (20.00%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (26.67%) Kalman Filter
3 6 (20.00%) Agile
3 6 (20.00%) Information Security
3 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 6 (20.00%) Tech Ops
4 5 (16.67%) Change Management
4 5 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 4 (13.33%) API Integration
5 4 (13.33%) Data Collection
5 4 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (13.33%) Network Architecture
5 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.33%) Threat Detection
6 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
6 3 (10.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) Go
4 1 (3.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.67%) CISM
3 2 (6.67%) CISSP
3 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Firmware
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.67%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Grafana
3 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 5 (16.67%) Cisco
3 5 (16.67%) Infoblox
3 5 (16.67%) Meraki
3 5 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 4 (13.33%) Dynatrace
5 3 (10.00%) VMware
6 2 (6.67%) Dell
6 2 (6.67%) Zscaler
7 1 (3.33%) Citrix
7 1 (3.33%) Databricks
7 1 (3.33%) Splunk