Operations Engineer Jobs in England

Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Operations Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 644 744 811
Rank change year-on-year +100 +67 -112
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 192 165 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.21% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 141 138 188
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £32,275
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,188 £40,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +0.88% +8.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,647 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +93 61 £65,000 +36.84% 7
London +105 46 £60,000 -10.45% 16
North West +46 45 £65,000 +39.78% 6
Midlands +22 43 £40,000 -15.79% 9
West Midlands +23 26 £48,750 +2.63% 5
East of England +16 21 £70,000 -
East Midlands -1 17 £40,000 +14.29% 4
South West -19 13 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Yorkshire +79 10 £60,000 +13.21%
South East -27 7 £55,000 +22.22% 6
North East -1 6 £60,000 +41.18% 1
Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (42.19%) Azure
2 55 (28.65%) Active Directory
3 50 (26.04%) Microsoft
4 49 (25.52%) ITIL
4 49 (25.52%) Windows
5 43 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (18.75%) AWS
7 34 (17.71%) Agile
8 33 (17.19%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 31 (16.15%) Windows Server
11 30 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (15.63%) Cisco
12 29 (15.10%) Python
12 29 (15.10%) PowerShell
13 28 (14.58%) Firewall
14 27 (14.06%) Linux
14 27 (14.06%) SQL
15 24 (12.50%) Service Delivery
15 24 (12.50%) Change Management
15 24 (12.50%) DevOps
15 24 (12.50%) Kubernetes
15 24 (12.50%) Entra ID
15 24 (12.50%) Terraform
16 23 (11.98%) VoIP
16 23 (11.98%) SCCM
16 23 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
17 22 (11.46%) Cloud Operations
18 21 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
18 21 (10.94%) Social Skills

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 15 (7.81%) IIS
2 5 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 81 (42.19%) Azure
2 36 (18.75%) AWS
3 33 (17.19%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 21 (10.94%) SaaS
6 20 (10.42%) IaaS
6 20 (10.42%) PaaS
7 13 (6.77%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.60%) OneDrive
12 4 (2.08%) Azure Storage
12 4 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.56%) Datadog
13 3 (1.56%) OpenShift
14 2 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 2 (1.04%) GitHub
15 1 (0.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (14.58%) Firewall
2 23 (11.98%) VoIP
3 19 (9.90%) DHCP
3 19 (9.90%) DNS
4 17 (8.85%) VPN
4 17 (8.85%) WAN
5 14 (7.29%) LAN
6 12 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 12 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (5.21%) SAN
8 9 (4.69%) Network Security
9 6 (3.13%) Internet
10 5 (2.60%) BGP
10 5 (2.60%) OSPF
11 4 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 4 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (2.08%) MPLS
11 4 (2.08%) Unified Communications
11 4 (2.08%) VLAN
11 4 (2.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.08%) MySQL
4 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.52%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.08%) Bitbucket
2 4 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (2.08%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.56%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.56%) JMeter
3 3 (1.56%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.56%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.04%) MLflow
5 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.52%) Git
5 1 (0.52%) GitLab
5 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 21 (10.94%) Law
1 21 (10.94%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (9.38%) Finance
3 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
4 3 (1.56%) Aerospace
4 3 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (1.56%) Marketing
5 2 (1.04%) Legal
5 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.04%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.52%) Police
6 1 (0.52%) Retail
6 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (3.13%) Node.js
2 3 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.52%) .NET
3 1 (0.52%) ADO
3 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.52%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.42%) Fat Client
1 20 (10.42%) Thin Client
2 14 (7.29%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.77%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.25%) Driving Licence
5 11 (5.73%) Clustering
6 8 (4.17%) IoT
6 8 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.65%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.13%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.60%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 49 (25.52%) Windows
2 31 (16.15%) Windows Server
3 27 (14.06%) Linux
4 7 (3.65%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.65%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (3.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.08%) VMS
7 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.04%) Unix
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.52%) ITIL
2 43 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (17.71%) Agile
4 32 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 30 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (12.50%) Change Management
6 24 (12.50%) DevOps
6 24 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 23 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (11.46%) Cloud Operations
9 21 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (10.42%) Project Planning
11 18 (9.38%) Asset Management
12 17 (8.85%) High Availability
12 17 (8.85%) Security Operations
13 16 (8.33%) CI/CD
13 16 (8.33%) ITSM
13 16 (8.33%) SIEM
14 13 (6.77%) Service Management
15 12 (6.25%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.10%) PowerShell
1 29 (15.10%) Python
2 27 (14.06%) SQL
3 13 (6.77%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.25%) Java
5 7 (3.65%) C#
5 7 (3.65%) Perl
6 6 (3.13%) C++
6 6 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.08%) Bash
8 2 (1.04%) PHP
8 2 (1.04%) Ruby
9 1 (0.52%) C
9 1 (0.52%) Go
9 1 (0.52%) Scala
9 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (7.29%) JNCIA
1 14 (7.29%) JNCIP
2 12 (6.25%) A+ Certification
2 12 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
3 10 (5.21%) Degree
4 7 (3.65%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.60%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.08%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) CCNA
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) HNC
8 1 (0.52%) HND
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.60%) NIST
3 4 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.08%) QA
3 4 (2.08%) SLA
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.52%) GDPR
4 1 (0.52%) GRC
4 1 (0.52%) GxP
System Software
1 55 (28.65%) Active Directory
2 18 (9.38%) Docker
3 8 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.65%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.52%) Samba
Systems Management
1 24 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 24 (12.50%) Terraform
2 23 (11.98%) SCCM
3 12 (6.25%) Ansible
3 12 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (5.21%) Microsoft Clustering
5 7 (3.65%) Opsgenie
5 7 (3.65%) Puppet
6 6 (3.13%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.13%) Salt
7 4 (2.08%) CASB
8 2 (1.04%) Grafana
8 2 (1.04%) Nagios
8 2 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.52%) DatAdvantage
9 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.52%) QRadar
9 1 (0.52%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.52%) WSUS
9 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (26.04%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.63%) Cisco
3 17 (8.85%) Veeam
4 15 (7.81%) Juniper
5 14 (7.29%) Fortinet
5 14 (7.29%) Palo Alto
6 13 (6.77%) VMware
7 6 (3.13%) Remedy
8 5 (2.60%) Citrix
9 4 (2.08%) Barracuda Networks
9 4 (2.08%) CA
9 4 (2.08%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.08%) Cylance
9 4 (2.08%) F5
9 4 (2.08%) McAfee
9 4 (2.08%) Meraki
9 4 (2.08%) Oracle
10 3 (1.56%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.56%) Splunk
11 2 (1.04%) Qualys