Operations Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Operations Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £51,196 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 523 726
Rank change year-on-year -40 +203 -49
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 66 82 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.24% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.25% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 45 74 67
10th Percentile £36,685 £32,500 £27,446
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,258 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,196 £47,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% +2.70% -12.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £58,938 £65,000
90th Percentile - £63,375 £70,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% -10.26% -2.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 51,365 32,680 65,758
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 96.01% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 25,610 22,460 39,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,871 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,404 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the UK excluding London

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
South West +9 25 £75,000 +100.00% 5
Scotland +5 17 £45,000 +12.44% 2
Midlands -33 14 £45,000 -19.64% 3
West Midlands -25 10 £51,196 +10.10% 2
North of England -28 7 £33,000 -40.00% 7
North West -38 6 £33,000 -40.00% 6
East Midlands -42 4 £45,000 -25.00% 1
South East -58 2 £48,750 +2.63% 3
Wales - 1 - -
North East - 1 £60,000 - 1
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 UK excluding London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (77.27%) Azure
2 39 (59.09%) Linux
2 39 (59.09%) Terraform
3 34 (51.52%) Cloud Operations
4 29 (43.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (40.91%) Kubernetes
6 26 (39.39%) AWS
7 25 (37.88%) DevOps
7 25 (37.88%) Agile
8 23 (34.85%) SQL
9 22 (33.33%) Docker
10 21 (31.82%) Ansible
11 19 (28.79%) Windows
11 19 (28.79%) CI/CD
12 18 (27.27%) Fintech
12 18 (27.27%) Configuration Management
13 17 (25.76%) SQL Server
13 17 (25.76%) Azure SQL Database
13 17 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (25.76%) PowerShell
14 16 (24.24%) Bash
14 16 (24.24%) Python
15 15 (22.73%) ITIL
15 15 (22.73%) Java
15 15 (22.73%) Perl
15 15 (22.73%) Puppet
15 15 (22.73%) Salt
15 15 (22.73%) Progress Chef
15 15 (22.73%) Linux Command Line
16 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (6.06%) IIS
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 51 (77.27%) Azure
2 26 (39.39%) AWS
3 14 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (21.21%) OpenShift
4 13 (19.70%) Entra ID
5 10 (15.15%) SaaS
6 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.03%) IaaS
8 2 (3.03%) PaaS
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) Firewall
1 6 (9.09%) SAN
2 4 (6.06%) DNS
2 4 (6.06%) Network Security
2 4 (6.06%) VPN
3 3 (4.55%) DHCP
4 2 (3.03%) BGP
4 2 (3.03%) LAN
4 2 (3.03%) OSPF
4 2 (3.03%) WAN
5 1 (1.52%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.52%) Internet
5 1 (1.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 17 (25.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.55%) Eclipse
2 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.55%) JMeter
2 3 (4.55%) Robot Framework
2 3 (4.55%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 14 (21.21%) Tech for Good
2 12 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Finance
4 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Aerospace
6 4 (6.06%) Law
6 4 (6.06%) Police
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.52%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.73%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (21.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (12.12%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) Clustering
5 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.52%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.52%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 39 (59.09%) Linux
2 19 (28.79%) Windows
3 14 (21.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (19.70%) Windows Server
5 9 (13.64%) CentOS
6 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.52%) Debian
7 1 (1.52%) Fedora
7 1 (1.52%) openSUSE
7 1 (1.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (51.52%) Cloud Operations
2 29 (43.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (37.88%) Agile
3 25 (37.88%) DevOps
4 19 (28.79%) CI/CD
5 18 (27.27%) Configuration Management
5 18 (27.27%) Fintech
6 17 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (22.73%) ITIL
8 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (21.21%) Software Engineering
8 14 (21.21%) Software Testing
8 14 (21.21%) Test Automation
9 13 (19.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 12 (18.18%) ITSM
11 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Management
11 10 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (13.64%) Project Management
13 8 (12.12%) Data Management
13 8 (12.12%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.85%) SQL
2 17 (25.76%) PowerShell
3 16 (24.24%) Bash
3 16 (24.24%) Python
4 15 (22.73%) Java
4 15 (22.73%) Perl
5 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.52%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (33.33%) Docker
2 11 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.03%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.52%) Samba
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (59.09%) Terraform
2 27 (40.91%) Kubernetes
3 21 (31.82%) Ansible
4 15 (22.73%) Progress Chef
4 15 (22.73%) Puppet
4 15 (22.73%) Salt
5 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.55%) Cisco
3 3 (4.55%) Juniper
3 3 (4.55%) Oracle
3 3 (4.55%) Splunk
3 3 (4.55%) VMware
4 2 (3.03%) Meraki
4 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.52%) Databricks
5 1 (1.52%) Nokia
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Zscaler