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 £55,000 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 625 649 691
Rank change year-on-year +24 +42 -87
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 155 79 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 114 60 121
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £27,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,125 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.02% +4.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £67,188 £53,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,725 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,168
% change year-on-year - +4.23% +5.08%

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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 12 June 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 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
North of England +56 59 £65,000 +36.84% 6
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
UK

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

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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (38.71%) Azure
2 46 (29.68%) Active Directory
3 41 (26.45%) Microsoft
3 41 (26.45%) ITIL
4 36 (23.23%) Cisco
5 35 (22.58%) Windows
5 35 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (16.77%) Agile
8 26 (16.77%) SQL
8 26 (16.77%) AWS
9 24 (15.48%) Change Management
10 23 (14.84%) VoIP
10 23 (14.84%) Windows Server
10 23 (14.84%) Cloud Operations
11 22 (14.19%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (14.19%) Service Delivery
12 21 (13.55%) Firewall
12 21 (13.55%) PowerShell
12 21 (13.55%) SCCM
13 20 (12.90%) Fat Client
13 20 (12.90%) Project Planning
13 20 (12.90%) Thin Client
14 19 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
15 18 (11.61%) Entra ID
15 18 (11.61%) Linux
15 18 (11.61%) Asset Management
16 17 (10.97%) Law
16 17 (10.97%) Social Skills

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 15 (9.68%) IIS
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.71%) Azure
2 26 (16.77%) AWS
3 22 (14.19%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (11.61%) Entra ID
5 13 (8.39%) IaaS
5 13 (8.39%) PaaS
6 11 (7.10%) SaaS
7 10 (6.45%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.94%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
14 1 (0.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
14 1 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.84%) VoIP
2 21 (13.55%) Firewall
3 13 (8.39%) WAN
4 12 (7.74%) DHCP
4 12 (7.74%) DNS
4 12 (7.74%) LAN
5 11 (7.10%) VPN
6 10 (6.45%) SAN
7 9 (5.81%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (3.87%) Network Security
9 3 (1.94%) Internet
10 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.29%) VLAN
11 1 (0.65%) BGP
11 1 (0.65%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.65%) FTP
11 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.65%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.65%) OSPF
11 1 (0.65%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.03%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.94%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.94%) MySQL
4 2 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Bitbucket
1 4 (2.58%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (2.58%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.94%) Eclipse
2 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.94%) JMeter
2 3 (1.94%) Robot Framework
2 3 (1.94%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
General
1 19 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (10.97%) Law
2 17 (10.97%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.23%) Finance
5 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.94%) Marketing
6 2 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.65%) Retail
7 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.87%) Node.js
2 3 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.65%) .NET
3 1 (0.65%) ADO
3 1 (0.65%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.90%) Fat Client
1 20 (12.90%) Thin Client
2 13 (8.39%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.45%) Clustering
4 9 (5.81%) Driving Licence
5 8 (5.16%) IoT
6 7 (4.52%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (3.23%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (2.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.29%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.29%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.65%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 35 (22.58%) Windows
2 23 (14.84%) Windows Server
3 18 (11.61%) Linux
4 5 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.58%) VMS
6 3 (1.94%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.29%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.65%) Unix
8 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (26.45%) ITIL
2 35 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 32 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (16.77%) Agile
6 24 (15.48%) Change Management
7 23 (14.84%) Cloud Operations
8 22 (14.19%) Service Delivery
9 20 (12.90%) Project Planning
10 18 (11.61%) Asset Management
11 15 (9.68%) DevOps
11 15 (9.68%) High Availability
12 14 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (9.03%) Security Operations
13 12 (7.74%) Customer Service
13 12 (7.74%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (7.10%) ITSM
14 11 (7.10%) Patch Management
14 11 (7.10%) SIEM
15 10 (6.45%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.77%) SQL
2 21 (13.55%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.74%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.16%) Python
5 7 (4.52%) C#
6 6 (3.87%) C++
6 6 (3.87%) Java
6 6 (3.87%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.58%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) C
8 1 (0.65%) Go
8 1 (0.65%) PHP
8 1 (0.65%) Ruby
8 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (9.03%) JNCIA
1 14 (9.03%) JNCIP
2 9 (5.81%) A+ Certification
2 9 (5.81%) Network+ Certification
3 6 (3.87%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.58%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.58%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.29%) Degree
7 1 (0.65%) CCNA
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.23%) NIST
3 4 (2.58%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.58%) QA
4 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) GRC
4 1 (0.65%) GxP
System Software
1 46 (29.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.87%) Docker
3 5 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) Samba
5 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (13.55%) SCCM
2 12 (7.74%) Terraform
3 10 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.45%) Microsoft Clustering
4 7 (4.52%) Opsgenie
5 6 (3.87%) Ansible
6 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.29%) Nagios
7 2 (1.29%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.65%) CASB
8 1 (0.65%) DatAdvantage
8 1 (0.65%) Grafana
8 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.65%) Puppet
8 1 (0.65%) QRadar
8 1 (0.65%) Stealthwatch
8 1 (0.65%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (26.45%) Microsoft
2 36 (23.23%) Cisco
3 15 (9.68%) Juniper
4 14 (9.03%) Fortinet
4 14 (9.03%) Palo Alto
4 14 (9.03%) Veeam
5 10 (6.45%) Meraki
6 8 (5.16%) VMware
7 6 (3.87%) Remedy
8 4 (2.58%) Barracuda Networks
8 4 (2.58%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.58%) Cylance
8 4 (2.58%) McAfee
9 3 (1.94%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.94%) Oracle
9 3 (1.94%) Splunk
10 2 (1.29%) Qualys
10 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.29%) Varonis
11 1 (0.65%) LogRhythm