Operations Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Operations Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 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 527 569 689
Rank change year-on-year +42 +120 -144
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 75 64 214
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.18% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 64 60 118
10th Percentile £49,500 £41,009 £36,529
25th Percentile £58,438 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £87,125 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,168
% change year-on-year - +4.23% +5.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Operations Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Operations Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Operations Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Operations Engineer.

Operations Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Operations Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (49.33%) Azure
2 18 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (24.00%) AWS
3 16 (21.33%) SaaS
3 16 (21.33%) Windows
4 15 (20.00%) Cisco
4 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (18.67%) Palo Alto
5 14 (18.67%) Security Operations
5 14 (18.67%) Juniper
5 14 (18.67%) JNCIA
5 14 (18.67%) JNCIP
5 14 (18.67%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (18.67%) Fortinet
6 13 (17.33%) Cloud Operations
7 12 (16.00%) Docker
7 12 (16.00%) ITIL
7 12 (16.00%) PowerShell
7 12 (16.00%) SIEM
8 11 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (14.67%) DevOps
8 11 (14.67%) CI/CD
9 10 (13.33%) Terraform
10 9 (12.00%) Data Science
10 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (12.00%) Linux
10 9 (12.00%) Agile
11 8 (10.67%) Python
11 8 (10.67%) TCP/IP

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.33%) IIS
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 37 (49.33%) Azure
2 18 (24.00%) AWS
3 16 (21.33%) SaaS
4 11 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (9.33%) IaaS
5 7 (9.33%) PaaS
6 6 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.33%) Azure Storage
8 4 (5.33%) Entra ID
9 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.00%) Datadog
9 3 (4.00%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.00%) Firewall
3 5 (6.67%) Network Security
4 4 (5.33%) BGP
4 4 (5.33%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (5.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 4 (5.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (5.33%) Internet
4 4 (5.33%) MPLS
4 4 (5.33%) OSPF
4 4 (5.33%) tcpdump
4 4 (5.33%) Unified Communications
4 4 (5.33%) VPN
4 4 (5.33%) VXLAN
4 4 (5.33%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.33%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.33%) DHCP
5 1 (1.33%) DNS
5 1 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket
2 4 (5.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (5.33%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.00%) Eclipse
3 3 (4.00%) JMeter
3 3 (4.00%) Robot Framework
3 3 (4.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.67%) MLflow
5 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 5 (6.67%) Finance
2 4 (5.33%) Law
2 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.00%) Node.js
2 3 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Data Centre
1 7 (9.33%) IoT
2 6 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (5.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (5.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (5.33%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (5.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.33%) Cybercrime
6 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.33%) Windows
2 9 (12.00%) Linux
3 8 (10.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.33%) VMS
4 4 (5.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.67%) Cybersecurity
1 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (18.67%) Security Operations
2 13 (17.33%) Cloud Operations
3 12 (16.00%) ITIL
3 12 (16.00%) SIEM
4 11 (14.67%) CI/CD
4 11 (14.67%) DevOps
5 9 (12.00%) Agile
5 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (12.00%) Data Science
6 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (9.33%) DataOps
7 7 (9.33%) ETL
7 7 (9.33%) Service Management
7 7 (9.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (8.00%) Mentoring
9 5 (6.67%) Incident Response
9 5 (6.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.67%) Python
3 7 (9.33%) SQL
4 6 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.00%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.00%) Bash
5 3 (4.00%) Java
5 3 (4.00%) Perl
6 1 (1.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (18.67%) JNCIA
1 14 (18.67%) JNCIP
2 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.33%) NIST
2 4 (5.33%) QA
2 4 (5.33%) SLA
3 3 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) GxP
4 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Docker
2 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.33%) Terraform
3 6 (8.00%) Ansible
3 6 (8.00%) Opsgenie
4 4 (5.33%) Puppet
5 3 (4.00%) CASB
5 3 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.00%) Salt
6 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.33%) DatAdvantage
6 1 (1.33%) QRadar
6 1 (1.33%) SCCM
6 1 (1.33%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (1.33%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Cisco
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.67%) Fortinet
2 14 (18.67%) Juniper
2 14 (18.67%) Palo Alto
3 4 (5.33%) CA
3 4 (5.33%) F5
3 4 (5.33%) VMware
4 3 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle
4 3 (4.00%) Splunk
5 2 (2.67%) Citrix
5 2 (2.67%) Qualys
5 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.67%) Varonis
6 1 (1.33%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.33%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.33%) Symantec