Senior Operations Engineer Jobs

Senior Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Operations Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 852 926 1169
Rank change year-on-year +74 +243 -276
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 31 33 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.033% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.036% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 25 26 49
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £38,947
25th Percentile - £50,063 £51,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% -0.41%
75th Percentile - £71,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%

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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Operations Engineer in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Operations Engineer in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Operations Engineer in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 17 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 +103 31 £65,000 +11.11% 11
Work from Home +83 23 £65,000 +11.11% 7
UK excluding London -15 20 £65,000 +13.04% 6
North of England +58 16 £65,000 +11.11% 1
North West +11 16 £65,000 -17.98% 1
London +120 11 £52,500 -17.00% 8
South West -18 2 - - 1
South East -5 1 £65,000 +44.44% 3
East of England - 1 £42,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 featuring Senior Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (48.39%) Cisco
2 14 (45.16%) Juniper
2 14 (45.16%) JNCIA
2 14 (45.16%) JNCIP
2 14 (45.16%) Fortinet
2 14 (45.16%) Palo Alto
3 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
3 10 (32.26%) ITIL
4 8 (25.81%) Azure
5 7 (22.58%) Veeam
5 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
5 7 (22.58%) Active Directory
5 7 (22.58%) DHCP
5 7 (22.58%) DNS
6 6 (19.35%) LAN
6 6 (19.35%) WAN
6 6 (19.35%) A+ Certification
6 6 (19.35%) ITSM
6 6 (19.35%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
6 6 (19.35%) Physics
6 6 (19.35%) Ergonomics
6 6 (19.35%) Human Factors
6 6 (19.35%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (19.35%) Coaching
6 6 (19.35%) PaaS
6 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (19.35%) IaaS
6 6 (19.35%) Data Centre

Senior 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 1 (3.23%) IIS
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Entra ID
2 6 (19.35%) IaaS
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (19.35%) PaaS
2 6 (19.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) DHCP
1 7 (22.58%) DNS
2 6 (19.35%) LAN
2 6 (19.35%) WAN
2 6 (19.35%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (12.90%) BGP
3 4 (12.90%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (12.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 4 (12.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (12.90%) MPLS
3 4 (12.90%) OSPF
3 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (12.90%) tcpdump
3 4 (12.90%) Unified Communications
3 4 (12.90%) VPN
3 4 (12.90%) VXLAN
3 4 (12.90%) Wireshark
4 1 (3.23%) Firewall
4 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) MLflow
General
1 4 (12.90%) Law
1 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.45%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
1 6 (19.35%) Driving Licence
2 4 (12.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.23%) Cybercrime
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
1 3 (9.68%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) ITIL
1 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
2 6 (19.35%) Coaching
2 6 (19.35%) Digital Strategy
2 6 (19.35%) Ergonomics
2 6 (19.35%) Human Factors
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (19.35%) ITSM
2 6 (19.35%) Physics
3 4 (12.90%) Application Security
3 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (12.90%) DDoS Mitigation
3 4 (12.90%) Network Design
4 2 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (6.45%) Data Protection
4 2 (6.45%) Data Science
4 2 (6.45%) Machine Learning
4 2 (6.45%) MLOps
4 2 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (3.23%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.45%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (45.16%) JNCIA
1 14 (45.16%) JNCIP
2 6 (19.35%) A+ Certification
2 6 (19.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.45%) Docker
4 1 (3.23%) Samba
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Cisco
2 14 (45.16%) Fortinet
2 14 (45.16%) Juniper
2 14 (45.16%) Palo Alto
3 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
3 7 (22.58%) Veeam
4 4 (12.90%) F5
5 3 (9.68%) VMware
6 2 (6.45%) Citrix
7 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.23%) Dell