Operations Engineer Jobs

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 leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 698 754 833
Rank change year-on-year +56 +79 -74
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 207 167 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 152 138 220
10th Percentile £30,500 £38,837 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,168
Median % change year-on-year - +4.23% +5.08%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% +4.44% -2.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 104,121 84,323 165,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.19% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 73,469 54,972 85,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,603 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%

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 12 June 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 12 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
England +66 186 £60,000 +4.35% 44
UK excluding London +24 155 £55,000 +17.02% 35
Work from Home +42 75 £65,000 +23.81% 16
North of England +56 59 £65,000 +36.84% 6
London +62 45 £60,000 -10.45% 12
North West +17 43 £65,000 +39.78% 6
Midlands -11 41 £40,000 -15.79% 7
West Midlands +2 24 £47,003 -1.05% 4
East of England +10 21 £70,000 - 4
East Midlands -15 17 £40,000 +14.29% 3
South West -30 14 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Scotland -60 13 £33,000 -11.74% 1
Yorkshire +66 10 £60,000 +13.21%
North East -12 6 £60,000 +41.18%
South East -58 5 £52,500 +16.67% 6
Wales - 3 £28,750 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (40.58%) Azure
2 59 (28.50%) Microsoft
2 59 (28.50%) Active Directory
3 56 (27.05%) ITIL
4 49 (23.67%) Windows
5 44 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (19.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 37 (17.87%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (17.39%) Cisco
9 35 (16.91%) AWS
10 32 (15.46%) Agile
10 32 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (15.46%) Windows Server
11 30 (14.49%) PowerShell
11 30 (14.49%) Entra ID
12 27 (13.04%) Firewall
12 27 (13.04%) SQL
13 26 (12.56%) Python
14 25 (12.08%) Linux
14 25 (12.08%) Cloud Operations
15 24 (11.59%) Service Delivery
15 24 (11.59%) Change Management
16 23 (11.11%) VoIP
16 23 (11.11%) SCCM
16 23 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
16 23 (11.11%) DevOps
17 22 (10.63%) Kubernetes
17 22 (10.63%) Terraform
18 21 (10.14%) Law
19 20 (9.66%) Finance

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 15 (7.25%) IIS
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 84 (40.58%) Azure
2 37 (17.87%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (16.91%) AWS
4 30 (14.49%) Entra ID
5 20 (9.66%) IaaS
5 20 (9.66%) PaaS
5 20 (9.66%) SaaS
6 13 (6.28%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.93%) Azure Storage
12 3 (1.45%) Datadog
12 3 (1.45%) OneDrive
12 3 (1.45%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.97%) GitHub
14 1 (0.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.04%) Firewall
2 23 (11.11%) VoIP
3 16 (7.73%) WAN
4 15 (7.25%) DHCP
4 15 (7.25%) DNS
4 15 (7.25%) LAN
4 15 (7.25%) VPN
5 12 (5.80%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (5.31%) Network Security
7 10 (4.83%) SAN
7 10 (4.83%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.42%) BGP
8 5 (2.42%) Internet
8 5 (2.42%) OSPF
9 4 (1.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (1.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (1.93%) MPLS
9 4 (1.93%) tcpdump
9 4 (1.93%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.73%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.93%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.93%) MySQL
4 2 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.48%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.93%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (1.93%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.45%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.45%) JMeter
3 3 (1.45%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.45%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.97%) MLflow
5 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.48%) Git
5 1 (0.48%) GitLab
5 1 (0.48%) Subversion
General
1 21 (10.14%) Law
2 20 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (9.66%) Finance
2 20 (9.66%) Social Skills
3 8 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (2.42%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.45%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.45%) Marketing
6 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (0.97%) Police
6 2 (0.97%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.48%) Advertising
7 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.48%) Legal
7 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.48%) Retail
7 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.90%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (2.90%) Node.js
2 3 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.48%) .NET
3 1 (0.48%) ADO
3 1 (0.48%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.48%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.66%) Fat Client
1 20 (9.66%) Thin Client
2 15 (7.25%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.28%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.80%) Driving Licence
5 11 (5.31%) Clustering
6 8 (3.86%) IoT
7 7 (3.38%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.90%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.42%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.42%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 49 (23.67%) Windows
2 32 (15.46%) Windows Server
3 25 (12.08%) Linux
4 7 (3.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (2.90%) Windows 10
6 5 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.93%) VMS
8 3 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.97%) Unix
10 1 (0.48%) Rocky
10 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.05%) ITIL
2 44 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (19.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 32 (15.46%) Agile
4 32 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (12.08%) Cloud Operations
6 24 (11.59%) Change Management
6 24 (11.59%) Service Delivery
7 23 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (11.11%) DevOps
8 20 (9.66%) Project Planning
9 19 (9.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (9.18%) Security Operations
10 18 (8.70%) Asset Management
11 16 (7.73%) High Availability
11 16 (7.73%) ITSM
12 14 (6.76%) Mentoring
12 14 (6.76%) SIEM
13 13 (6.28%) CI/CD
13 13 (6.28%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 30 (14.49%) PowerShell
2 27 (13.04%) SQL
3 26 (12.56%) Python
4 13 (6.28%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.35%) Java
6 7 (3.38%) C#
7 6 (2.90%) C++
7 6 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.42%) Bash
9 4 (1.93%) Perl
10 2 (0.97%) PHP
10 2 (0.97%) Ruby
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) Go
11 1 (0.48%) Scala
11 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (6.76%) JNCIA
1 14 (6.76%) JNCIP
2 12 (5.80%) A+ Certification
2 12 (5.80%) Degree
2 12 (5.80%) Network+ Certification
3 7 (3.38%) AWS Certification
4 6 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.90%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.42%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.97%) HNC
6 2 (0.97%) HND
7 1 (0.48%) CCNA
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.42%) NIST
3 4 (1.93%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.93%) QA
3 4 (1.93%) SLA
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) GRC
4 1 (0.48%) GxP
4 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 59 (28.50%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.73%) Docker
3 5 (2.42%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.48%) Samba
5 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (11.11%) SCCM
2 22 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.63%) Terraform
3 10 (4.83%) Ansible
3 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Clustering
3 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.38%) Opsgenie
5 4 (1.93%) Puppet
6 3 (1.45%) CASB
6 3 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.45%) Salt
7 2 (0.97%) Grafana
7 2 (0.97%) Nagios
7 2 (0.97%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.48%) DatAdvantage
8 1 (0.48%) QRadar
8 1 (0.48%) Stealthwatch
8 1 (0.48%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.48%) WSUS
8 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 59 (28.50%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.39%) Cisco
3 17 (8.21%) Veeam
4 15 (7.25%) Juniper
5 14 (6.76%) Fortinet
5 14 (6.76%) Palo Alto
6 11 (5.31%) VMware
7 10 (4.83%) Meraki
8 6 (2.90%) Remedy
9 4 (1.93%) Barracuda Networks
9 4 (1.93%) CA
9 4 (1.93%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.93%) Cylance
9 4 (1.93%) F5
9 4 (1.93%) McAfee
9 4 (1.93%) Oracle
10 3 (1.45%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.45%) Citrix
10 3 (1.45%) Splunk
11 2 (0.97%) Red Hat