Senior Operations Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Operations Engineer salary in England is £65,000 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 833 876 1137
Rank change year-on-year +43 +261 -264
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 32 25 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.030% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.033% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 26 23 43
10th Percentile £48,750 £43,250 £38,947
25th Percentile - £50,125 £51,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile - £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.07% -3.33% -0.41%

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%

Senior Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Operations Engineer in England

Senior Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Operations Engineer in England

Senior Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Operations Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior 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 +45 16 £65,000 +11.11%
North West +11 16 £65,000 -29.73%
London +114 12 £58,750 -7.11% 3
South West -27 2 - - 1
South East -9 1 £65,000 +44.44% 2
East of England - 1 £42,500 -
Senior Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (46.88%) Cisco
2 14 (43.75%) Juniper
2 14 (43.75%) JNCIA
2 14 (43.75%) JNCIP
2 14 (43.75%) Fortinet
2 14 (43.75%) Palo Alto
3 10 (31.25%) Mentoring
3 10 (31.25%) ITIL
4 8 (25.00%) Azure
5 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
5 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
5 7 (21.88%) DHCP
5 7 (21.88%) DNS
5 7 (21.88%) Veeam
6 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (18.75%) PaaS
6 6 (18.75%) Coaching
6 6 (18.75%) IaaS
6 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
6 6 (18.75%) Driving Licence
6 6 (18.75%) Entra ID
6 6 (18.75%) Digital Strategy
6 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
6 6 (18.75%) LAN
6 6 (18.75%) WAN
6 6 (18.75%) A+ Certification
6 6 (18.75%) ITSM
6 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi

Senior 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 1 (3.13%) IIS
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) Entra ID
2 6 (18.75%) IaaS
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (18.75%) PaaS
2 6 (18.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) DHCP
1 7 (21.88%) DNS
2 6 (18.75%) LAN
2 6 (18.75%) WAN
2 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (12.50%) BGP
3 4 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 4 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (12.50%) MPLS
3 4 (12.50%) OSPF
3 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.50%) tcpdump
3 4 (12.50%) Unified Communications
3 4 (12.50%) VPN
3 4 (12.50%) VXLAN
3 4 (12.50%) Wireshark
4 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.13%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) MLflow
General
1 4 (12.50%) Law
1 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 6 (18.75%) Driving Licence
2 4 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.13%) Cybercrime
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
1 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) ITIL
1 10 (31.25%) Mentoring
2 6 (18.75%) Coaching
2 6 (18.75%) Digital Strategy
2 6 (18.75%) Ergonomics
2 6 (18.75%) Human Factors
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) ITSM
2 6 (18.75%) Physics
3 4 (12.50%) Application Security
3 4 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (12.50%) DDoS Mitigation
3 4 (12.50%) Network Design
4 2 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (6.25%) Data Protection
4 2 (6.25%) Data Science
4 2 (6.25%) Machine Learning
4 2 (6.25%) MLOps
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (3.13%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) JNCIA
1 14 (43.75%) JNCIP
2 6 (18.75%) A+ Certification
2 6 (18.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) Docker
4 1 (3.13%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Cisco
2 14 (43.75%) Fortinet
2 14 (43.75%) Juniper
2 14 (43.75%) Palo Alto
3 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
3 7 (21.88%) Veeam
4 4 (12.50%) F5
5 3 (9.38%) VMware
6 2 (6.25%) Citrix
7 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.13%) Dell