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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 675 742 815
Rank change year-on-year +67 +73 -106
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 190 159 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.19% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.21% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 139 133 192
10th Percentile £34,300 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,647 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £82,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,168
% change year-on-year - +4.23% +5.08%

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 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £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 1 June 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +79 61 £65,000 +36.84% 5
London +76 45 £60,000 -10.45% 23
North West +37 45 £65,000 +46.07% 4
Midlands +14 43 £40,000 -15.79% 9
West Midlands -1 26 £48,750 +2.63% 4
East of England +19 21 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -4 17 £40,000 +14.29% 5
South West -17 13 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Yorkshire +63 10 £60,000 +13.21%
North East -5 6 £60,000 +41.18% 1
South East -36 6 £53,750 +19.44% 6
Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 79 (41.58%) Azure
2 54 (28.42%) Active Directory
3 49 (25.79%) Microsoft
3 49 (25.79%) ITIL
4 48 (25.26%) Windows
5 43 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (18.42%) AWS
7 33 (17.37%) Agile
8 32 (16.84%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (16.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 31 (16.32%) Windows Server
10 30 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (15.79%) Cisco
11 29 (15.26%) PowerShell
12 28 (14.74%) Python
12 28 (14.74%) Firewall
13 27 (14.21%) SQL
14 26 (13.68%) Linux
15 24 (12.63%) Service Delivery
15 24 (12.63%) Change Management
15 24 (12.63%) Entra ID
16 23 (12.11%) Kubernetes
16 23 (12.11%) DevOps
16 23 (12.11%) Terraform
16 23 (12.11%) SCCM
16 23 (12.11%) Cybersecurity
17 22 (11.58%) VoIP
17 22 (11.58%) Cloud Operations
18 21 (11.05%) Social Skills
18 21 (11.05%) Law

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 (7.89%) IIS
2 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 79 (41.58%) Azure
2 35 (18.42%) AWS
3 32 (16.84%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (12.63%) Entra ID
5 21 (11.05%) SaaS
6 20 (10.53%) IaaS
6 20 (10.53%) PaaS
7 13 (6.84%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.11%) Azure Storage
11 4 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.11%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.58%) Datadog
12 3 (1.58%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (1.05%) GitHub
14 1 (0.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (14.74%) Firewall
2 22 (11.58%) VoIP
3 18 (9.47%) DHCP
3 18 (9.47%) DNS
4 16 (8.42%) VPN
4 16 (8.42%) WAN
5 14 (7.37%) LAN
6 12 (6.32%) Wi-Fi
7 11 (5.79%) TCP/IP
8 10 (5.26%) SAN
9 9 (4.74%) Network Security
10 6 (3.16%) Internet
11 5 (2.63%) BGP
11 5 (2.63%) OSPF
12 4 (2.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 4 (2.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (2.11%) MPLS
12 4 (2.11%) tcpdump
12 4 (2.11%) Unified Communications
12 4 (2.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.11%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.11%) MySQL
4 2 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.53%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.68%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.11%) Bitbucket
2 4 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (2.11%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.58%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.58%) JMeter
3 3 (1.58%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.58%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.05%) MLflow
5 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.53%) Git
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 21 (11.05%) Law
1 21 (11.05%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (9.47%) Finance
3 5 (2.63%) Telecoms
4 3 (1.58%) Aerospace
4 3 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (1.58%) Marketing
5 2 (1.05%) Legal
5 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.53%) Police
6 1 (0.53%) Retail
6 1 (0.53%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.16%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (3.16%) Node.js
2 3 (1.58%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.53%) .NET
3 1 (0.53%) ADO
3 1 (0.53%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.53%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.53%) Fat Client
1 20 (10.53%) Thin Client
2 14 (7.37%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.84%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.32%) Driving Licence
5 11 (5.79%) Clustering
6 8 (4.21%) IoT
7 7 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.68%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (3.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (3.16%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.26%) Windows
2 31 (16.32%) Windows Server
3 26 (13.68%) Linux
4 7 (3.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (3.16%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.11%) VMS
8 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.05%) Unix
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.79%) ITIL
2 43 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (17.37%) Agile
4 31 (16.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 30 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (12.63%) Change Management
6 24 (12.63%) Service Delivery
7 23 (12.11%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (12.11%) DevOps
8 22 (11.58%) Cloud Operations
9 20 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (10.53%) Project Planning
10 18 (9.47%) Asset Management
11 17 (8.95%) High Availability
11 17 (8.95%) Security Operations
12 16 (8.42%) ITSM
12 16 (8.42%) SIEM
13 15 (7.89%) CI/CD
14 13 (6.84%) Service Management
15 12 (6.32%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.26%) PowerShell
2 28 (14.74%) Python
3 27 (14.21%) SQL
4 13 (6.84%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.79%) Java
6 7 (3.68%) C#
7 6 (3.16%) C++
7 6 (3.16%) Perl
7 6 (3.16%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.11%) Bash
9 2 (1.05%) PHP
9 2 (1.05%) Ruby
10 1 (0.53%) C
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) Scala
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (7.37%) JNCIA
1 14 (7.37%) JNCIP
2 12 (6.32%) A+ Certification
2 12 (6.32%) Network+ Certification
3 10 (5.26%) Degree
4 7 (3.68%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.63%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.11%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) CCNA
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) HNC
8 1 (0.53%) HND
8 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.63%) NIST
3 4 (2.11%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.11%) QA
3 4 (2.11%) SLA
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.53%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) GRC
4 1 (0.53%) GxP
System Software
1 54 (28.42%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.95%) Docker
3 7 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.16%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.53%) Samba
Systems Management
1 23 (12.11%) Kubernetes
1 23 (12.11%) SCCM
1 23 (12.11%) Terraform
2 11 (5.79%) Ansible
2 11 (5.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
4 7 (3.68%) Opsgenie
5 6 (3.16%) Puppet
6 5 (2.63%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.63%) Salt
7 4 (2.11%) CASB
8 2 (1.05%) Grafana
8 2 (1.05%) Nagios
8 2 (1.05%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.53%) DatAdvantage
9 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.53%) QRadar
9 1 (0.53%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.53%) WSUS
9 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (25.79%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.79%) Cisco
3 17 (8.95%) Veeam
4 15 (7.89%) Juniper
5 14 (7.37%) Fortinet
5 14 (7.37%) Palo Alto
6 12 (6.32%) VMware
7 6 (3.16%) Remedy
8 4 (2.11%) Barracuda Networks
8 4 (2.11%) CA
8 4 (2.11%) Citrix
8 4 (2.11%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.11%) Cylance
8 4 (2.11%) F5
8 4 (2.11%) McAfee
8 4 (2.11%) Meraki
8 4 (2.11%) Oracle
9 3 (1.58%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.58%) Splunk
10 2 (1.05%) Qualys