Operations Engineer Contracts in England

Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 540 653
Rank change year-on-year +105 +113 -97
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 107 100 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 66 84
10th Percentile £335 £356 £361
25th Percentile £404 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £594 £525
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +13.10% +3.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £627
90th Percentile £688 £708 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 - £35.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,728 45,413 67,759
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,387 32,257 48,330
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £763 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,336 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.25 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +116 60 £625 -3.70% 26
South East +23 22 £411 -8.67% 13
North of England +22 18 £425 -34.62% 7
North East +19 10 £375 -46.43% 2
North West +9 6 £550 -15.38% 5
East of England +14 4 £442 +41.44% 1
Midlands +12 3 £450 -16.67% 8
West Midlands +8 3 £450 -16.67% 3
Yorkshire +22 2 - -
South West +10 1 £425 -43.33% 5
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Operations Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (39.25%) Security Cleared
2 37 (34.58%) Azure
3 35 (32.71%) Firewall
4 33 (30.84%) DevOps
5 30 (28.04%) AWS
6 26 (24.30%) Windows
7 22 (20.56%) Terraform
7 22 (20.56%) Microsoft
8 19 (17.76%) Cisco
9 18 (16.82%) PowerShell
10 17 (15.89%) SQL
11 16 (14.95%) Active Directory
11 16 (14.95%) DV Cleared
11 16 (14.95%) Kubernetes
12 15 (14.02%) SQL Server
12 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (13.08%) CI/CD
13 14 (13.08%) Degree
13 14 (13.08%) Linux
14 13 (12.15%) Juniper
14 13 (12.15%) Roadmaps
14 13 (12.15%) Public Sector
15 12 (11.21%) Agile
15 12 (11.21%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
16 11 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (10.28%) Data Centre
16 11 (10.28%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (10.28%) CCNP

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (4.67%) Apache
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.80%) JBoss
2 3 (2.80%) nginx
2 3 (2.80%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.87%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.93%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.58%) Azure
2 30 (28.04%) AWS
3 11 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (8.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (7.48%) PaaS
6 7 (6.54%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.61%) IaaS
8 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.67%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.74%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.74%) Serverless
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.80%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.87%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (1.87%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (32.71%) Firewall
2 12 (11.21%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (8.41%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (7.48%) DNS
5 7 (6.54%) BGP
5 7 (6.54%) EIGRP
5 7 (6.54%) MPLS
5 7 (6.54%) Network Security
5 7 (6.54%) OSPF
5 7 (6.54%) VPN
6 6 (5.61%) LAN
7 5 (4.67%) WAN
7 5 (4.67%) Wireless
8 4 (3.74%) DHCP
8 4 (3.74%) SSL
9 3 (2.80%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (2.80%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (2.80%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.87%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.87%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.02%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.80%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.80%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Metadata
5 1 (0.93%) MySQL
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Git
2 5 (4.67%) TeamCity
3 4 (3.74%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.80%) GitLab
4 3 (2.80%) JIRA
4 3 (2.80%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.87%) JMeter
5 2 (1.87%) Selenium
5 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
General
1 13 (12.15%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.28%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.54%) Banking
4 6 (5.61%) Finance
5 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.87%) Automotive
6 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) French Language
7 1 (0.93%) Front Office
7 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Law
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) AWS CDK
1 8 (7.48%) React
2 4 (3.74%) Gherkin
2 4 (3.74%) Node.js
2 4 (3.74%) Vue
3 3 (2.80%) .NET
3 3 (2.80%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (1.87%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.87%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.87%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.87%) JSON
4 2 (1.87%) Kafka
4 2 (1.87%) RESTful
5 1 (0.93%) LDAP
5 1 (0.93%) Middleware
5 1 (0.93%) OAuth
5 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.93%) SAML
5 1 (0.93%) XML
5 1 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.28%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.61%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.74%) PKI
4 3 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.87%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) CMDB
6 1 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.93%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.93%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.93%) Insider Threat
6 1 (0.93%) IoT
6 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 26 (24.30%) Windows
2 14 (13.08%) Linux
3 11 (10.28%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.48%) Unix
5 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.87%) VMS
6 2 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.93%) MVS
7 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.84%) DevOps
2 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (13.08%) CI/CD
3 14 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (12.15%) Roadmaps
5 12 (11.21%) Agile
6 11 (10.28%) Containerisation
7 10 (9.35%) Incident Management
7 10 (9.35%) Service Delivery
8 9 (8.41%) Migration
8 9 (8.41%) Scrum
9 8 (7.48%) Cloud Operations
9 8 (7.48%) Computer Science
9 8 (7.48%) High Availability
10 7 (6.54%) Change Management
10 7 (6.54%) ITIL
11 6 (5.61%) Security Operations
11 6 (5.61%) Server Management
12 5 (4.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 5 (4.67%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.82%) PowerShell
2 17 (15.89%) SQL
3 8 (7.48%) JavaScript
3 8 (7.48%) Python
4 5 (4.67%) Bash
5 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.80%) Go
6 3 (2.80%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.87%) C#
7 2 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.93%) Java
8 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.93%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (39.25%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.95%) DV Cleared
3 14 (13.08%) Degree
4 11 (10.28%) CCNP
4 11 (10.28%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
5 10 (9.35%) JNCIA
6 8 (7.48%) CCNA
7 7 (6.54%) JNCIS
8 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.80%) CCSA
9 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.87%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (1.87%) VCAP
10 2 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.93%) Check Point Certification
11 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) SLA
2 3 (2.80%) NIST
3 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (14.95%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.35%) Docker
3 3 (2.80%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.87%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.87%) vSphere
5 1 (0.93%) NFS
5 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (20.56%) Terraform
2 16 (14.95%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (6.54%) Ansible
4 7 (6.54%) Grafana
4 7 (6.54%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.80%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.87%) SCCM
6 2 (1.87%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.76%) Cisco
3 13 (12.15%) Juniper
4 8 (7.48%) Oracle
5 7 (6.54%) CA
5 7 (6.54%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.74%) CheckPoint
6 4 (3.74%) VMware
7 3 (2.80%) Blue Coat
7 3 (2.80%) IBM
7 3 (2.80%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.80%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.80%) Splunk
7 3 (2.80%) Temenos
8 2 (1.87%) iManage
8 2 (1.87%) Intapp
8 2 (1.87%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.87%) SAP
8 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.87%) Sophos