Operations Engineer Contracts

Operations Engineer
UK

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 588 699
Rank change year-on-year +108 +111 -59
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 114 109 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 68 117
10th Percentile £338 £359 £354
25th Percentile £406 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +0.48%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £700 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 £467 £525
% change year-on-year -5.35% -10.96% +19.89%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 11 June 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
England +111 108 £450 -16.67% 49
London +109 62 £625 -1.88% 14
UK excluding London +30 49 £442 -5.35% 37
Work from Home +90 29 £448 -5.79% 17
South East +14 20 £411 -8.67% 6
North of England +29 18 £425 -31.17% 7
North East +20 10 £375 -46.43%
North West +2 6 £550 -10.93% 7
Scotland +39 5 £713 +67.65% 1
Midlands +3 4 £450 -16.67% 7
East of England +3 4 £442 +41.44% 5
West Midlands +1 3 £450 -16.67% 4
Yorkshire +6 2 - -
East Midlands +7 1 - - 3
South West - 1 £425 - 9

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

For the 6 months to 11 June 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 featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 38 (33.33%) Azure
3 34 (29.82%) DevOps
3 34 (29.82%) Firewall
4 32 (28.07%) AWS
5 25 (21.93%) Windows
6 24 (21.05%) Terraform
7 23 (20.18%) Microsoft
8 18 (15.79%) Cisco
8 18 (15.79%) Linux
8 18 (15.79%) SQL
9 17 (14.91%) Active Directory
9 17 (14.91%) DV Cleared
9 17 (14.91%) Kubernetes
10 16 (14.04%) PowerShell
10 16 (14.04%) SQL Server
10 16 (14.04%) Degree
10 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.16%) Data Centre
11 15 (13.16%) CI/CD
12 14 (12.28%) SC Cleared
12 14 (12.28%) Agile
12 14 (12.28%) Public Sector
13 13 (11.40%) Containerisation
13 13 (11.40%) Roadmaps
13 13 (11.40%) Incident Management
13 13 (11.40%) Python
14 12 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (10.53%) Ansible
14 12 (10.53%) Docker

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.39%) Apache
1 5 (4.39%) Confluence
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.63%) JBoss
2 3 (2.63%) nginx
2 3 (2.63%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.88%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.33%) Azure
2 32 (28.07%) AWS
3 12 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (7.89%) PaaS
5 8 (7.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (7.02%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (6.14%) IaaS
7 6 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.39%) Serverless
9 4 (3.51%) Amazon Cognito
9 4 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.51%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.63%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.63%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.63%) SaaS
10 3 (2.63%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.75%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 34 (29.82%) Firewall
2 9 (7.89%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (7.02%) DNS
4 7 (6.14%) VPN
5 6 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (4.39%) LAN
7 4 (3.51%) BGP
7 4 (3.51%) DHCP
7 4 (3.51%) EIGRP
7 4 (3.51%) MPLS
7 4 (3.51%) Network Security
7 4 (3.51%) OSPF
7 4 (3.51%) SSL
7 4 (3.51%) WAN
7 4 (3.51%) Wireless
8 3 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (2.63%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.75%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (1.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.51%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.63%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.63%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Metadata
5 1 (0.88%) MySQL
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Git
2 7 (6.14%) JIRA
3 5 (4.39%) GitLab
4 4 (3.51%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.63%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.63%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.75%) JMeter
6 2 (1.75%) Selenium
6 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.88%) Gradle
7 1 (0.88%) Maven
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
General
1 14 (12.28%) Public Sector
2 12 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.89%) Finance
4 8 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Banking
6 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.75%) Automotive
7 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) French Language
8 1 (0.88%) Front Office
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.02%) AWS CDK
1 8 (7.02%) React
2 4 (3.51%) Gherkin
2 4 (3.51%) Node.js
2 4 (3.51%) Vue
3 3 (2.63%) .NET
3 3 (2.63%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (1.75%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.75%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.75%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.75%) JSON
4 2 (1.75%) Kafka
4 2 (1.75%) REST
4 2 (1.75%) RESTful
4 2 (1.75%) Web Services
5 1 (0.88%) LangChain
5 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.88%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.88%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.16%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.14%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.51%) PKI
4 3 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.75%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.88%) CMDB
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.88%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.88%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.88%) Insider Threat
6 1 (0.88%) IoT
6 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.93%) Windows
2 18 (15.79%) Linux
3 12 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 9 (7.89%) Unix
5 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.75%) VMS
7 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.88%) MVS
7 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.82%) DevOps
2 16 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (13.16%) CI/CD
4 14 (12.28%) Agile
5 13 (11.40%) Containerisation
5 13 (11.40%) Incident Management
5 13 (11.40%) Roadmaps
6 12 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (9.65%) Migration
8 10 (8.77%) Service Delivery
9 9 (7.89%) Computer Science
10 8 (7.02%) Change Management
10 8 (7.02%) Cloud Operations
10 8 (7.02%) Scrum
11 7 (6.14%) ITIL
11 7 (6.14%) Security Operations
12 6 (5.26%) Analytics
12 6 (5.26%) Server Management
12 6 (5.26%) Service Management
13 5 (4.39%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.79%) SQL
2 16 (14.04%) PowerShell
3 13 (11.40%) Python
4 9 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.39%) Bash
6 4 (3.51%) Go
6 4 (3.51%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.63%) Java
7 3 (2.63%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.75%) C#
8 2 (1.75%) Groovy
8 2 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.91%) DV Cleared
3 16 (14.04%) Degree
4 14 (12.28%) SC Cleared
5 11 (9.65%) CCNP
5 11 (9.65%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (6.14%) JNCIA
7 5 (4.39%) CCNA
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.51%) JNCIS
9 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.63%) CCIE
9 3 (2.63%) CCSA
9 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.75%) CISSP
10 2 (1.75%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (1.75%) VCAP
10 2 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.88%) CISM
11 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) SLA
2 4 (3.51%) NIST
3 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.88%) NCSC
4 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (14.91%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.53%) Docker
3 3 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.75%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.75%) vSphere
5 1 (0.88%) NFS
5 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (21.05%) Terraform
2 17 (14.91%) Kubernetes
3 12 (10.53%) Ansible
4 9 (7.89%) Grafana
4 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (7.02%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.63%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.75%) SCCM
7 2 (1.75%) WSUS
8 1 (0.88%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.79%) Cisco
3 10 (8.77%) Juniper
4 8 (7.02%) CA
4 8 (7.02%) Oracle
5 7 (6.14%) Palo Alto
6 6 (5.26%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.51%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.51%) F5
7 4 (3.51%) PagerDuty
7 4 (3.51%) Splunk
7 4 (3.51%) VMware
8 3 (2.63%) Blue Coat
8 3 (2.63%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.63%) IBM
8 3 (2.63%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.63%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.63%) Temenos
9 2 (1.75%) SAP
9 2 (1.75%) Sophos