Operations Engineer
UK

The median Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 665 792 841
Rank change year-on-year +127 +49 -129
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 219 182 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.20% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 168 150 226
10th Percentile £30,500 £41,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,500 £54,100
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +8.13% +6.08%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,188 £67,313
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in the UK

Operations Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England +131 198 £60,000 +4.35% 50
UK excluding London +68 162 £55,000 +15.79% 29
Work from Home +106 85 £65,000 +13.04% 18
North of England +98 64 £62,732 +32.07% 9
London +76 51 £60,000 -10.45% 20
North West +46 47 £65,000 +39.78% 5
Midlands +26 43 £40,000 -15.79% 7
West Midlands +32 28 £42,500 -10.53% 2
East of England +38 22 £70,000 -
East Midlands +6 15 £40,000 +14.29% 5
Scotland - 13 £33,000 - 1
Yorkshire +84 11 £85,000 +60.38% 2
South West -16 10 £60,000 +14.29% 4
South East -15 9 £55,000 +22.22% 7
North East +1 6 £60,000 +41.18% 2
Wales - 3 £28,750 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (41.10%) Azure
2 64 (29.22%) Active Directory
3 61 (27.85%) Microsoft
4 54 (24.66%) ITIL
5 51 (23.29%) Windows
6 47 (21.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 42 (19.18%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (16.89%) AWS
9 37 (16.89%) Agile
10 35 (15.98%) Cisco
11 32 (14.61%) Python
12 31 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (14.16%) Windows Server
13 29 (13.24%) Entra ID
13 29 (13.24%) PowerShell
13 29 (13.24%) Linux
14 28 (12.79%) Firewall
15 27 (12.33%) Cybersecurity
16 26 (11.87%) VoIP
16 26 (11.87%) Terraform
16 26 (11.87%) Social Skills
17 25 (11.42%) DevOps
17 25 (11.42%) SQL
18 24 (10.96%) Change Management
18 24 (10.96%) DHCP
18 24 (10.96%) DNS
18 24 (10.96%) Kubernetes
19 23 (10.50%) Cloud Operations
19 23 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code

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 13 (5.94%) IIS
2 6 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 90 (41.10%) Azure
2 42 (19.18%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (16.89%) AWS
4 29 (13.24%) Entra ID
5 19 (8.68%) IaaS
5 19 (8.68%) PaaS
5 19 (8.68%) SaaS
6 13 (5.94%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.74%) OneDrive
9 5 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.37%) Azure Storage
10 3 (1.37%) Datadog
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.91%) GitHub
12 1 (0.46%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.79%) Firewall
2 26 (11.87%) VoIP
3 24 (10.96%) DHCP
3 24 (10.96%) DNS
4 20 (9.13%) WAN
5 16 (7.31%) LAN
5 16 (7.31%) VPN
6 14 (6.39%) TCP/IP
7 12 (5.48%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (5.02%) Network Security
9 8 (3.65%) SAN
10 7 (3.20%) Internet
11 5 (2.28%) BGP
11 5 (2.28%) OSPF
11 5 (2.28%) VLAN
12 4 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 4 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (1.83%) MPLS
12 4 (1.83%) tcpdump
12 4 (1.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.91%) MySQL
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.46%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.28%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (1.83%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.37%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.46%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.46%) Git
5 1 (0.46%) GitLab
5 1 (0.46%) JMeter
5 1 (0.46%) MLflow
5 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 26 (11.87%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.13%) Finance
2 20 (9.13%) Law
3 17 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (1.83%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.37%) Legal
6 3 (1.37%) Marketing
7 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.91%) Police
7 2 (0.91%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.46%) Retail
8 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.74%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (2.74%) Node.js
2 2 (0.91%) ADO
3 1 (0.46%) .NET
3 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.46%) boto
3 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.46%) HTML
3 1 (0.46%) OpenID
3 1 (0.46%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.13%) Fat Client
1 20 (9.13%) Thin Client
2 16 (7.31%) Data Centre
3 14 (6.39%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.48%) Driving Licence
4 12 (5.48%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.11%) Clustering
7 8 (3.65%) IoT
8 6 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.74%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (2.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.28%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.37%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 51 (23.29%) Windows
2 31 (14.16%) Windows Server
3 29 (13.24%) Linux
4 9 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.11%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.83%) VMS
8 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.91%) Unix
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (24.66%) ITIL
2 47 (21.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 41 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (16.89%) Agile
5 31 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (12.33%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (11.42%) DevOps
8 24 (10.96%) Change Management
9 23 (10.50%) Cloud Operations
9 23 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (10.50%) Service Delivery
10 22 (10.05%) Security Operations
11 20 (9.13%) CI/CD
11 20 (9.13%) Project Planning
12 18 (8.22%) Asset Management
12 18 (8.22%) SIEM
13 17 (7.76%) High Availability
13 17 (7.76%) ITSM
14 14 (6.39%) Mentoring
15 13 (5.94%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.61%) Python
2 29 (13.24%) PowerShell
3 25 (11.42%) SQL
4 15 (6.85%) Java
5 13 (5.94%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.57%) Perl
7 7 (3.20%) C#
8 6 (2.74%) C++
8 6 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.37%) Bash
9 3 (1.37%) Ruby
10 2 (0.91%) PHP
10 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.46%) C
11 1 (0.46%) Go
11 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (6.39%) JNCIA
1 14 (6.39%) JNCIP
2 13 (5.94%) Degree
3 12 (5.48%) A+ Certification
3 12 (5.48%) Network+ Certification
4 8 (3.65%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.28%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.28%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.37%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.91%) HNC
8 2 (0.91%) HND
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.46%) CCNA
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) MCSE
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.28%) NIST
2 5 (2.28%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.83%) QA
3 4 (1.83%) SLA
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) GRC
4 1 (0.46%) GxP
4 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 64 (29.22%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.68%) Docker
3 11 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.65%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.46%) Samba
Systems Management
1 26 (11.87%) Terraform
2 24 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.50%) SCCM
4 13 (5.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (5.48%) Ansible
6 11 (5.02%) Puppet
7 9 (4.11%) Progress Chef
7 9 (4.11%) Salt
8 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Clustering
9 7 (3.20%) Opsgenie
10 4 (1.83%) CASB
11 2 (0.91%) Grafana
11 2 (0.91%) Nagios
11 2 (0.91%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.46%) DatAdvantage
12 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.46%) QRadar
12 1 (0.46%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 1 (0.46%) WSUS
12 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (27.85%) Microsoft
2 35 (15.98%) Cisco
3 18 (8.22%) VMware
4 17 (7.76%) Veeam
5 14 (6.39%) Fortinet
5 14 (6.39%) Juniper
5 14 (6.39%) Palo Alto
6 10 (4.57%) Meraki
7 6 (2.74%) Citrix
7 6 (2.74%) Remedy
8 5 (2.28%) Qualys
9 4 (1.83%) Barracuda Networks
9 4 (1.83%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.83%) Cylance
9 4 (1.83%) F5
9 4 (1.83%) McAfee
10 3 (1.37%) CA
10 3 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.37%) Varonis
11 2 (0.91%) LogRhythm