Operations Engineer Jobs in England

Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Operations Engineer salary in England is £60,000 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 678 744 813
Rank change year-on-year +66 +69 -85
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 186 150 397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.20% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 133 125 191
10th Percentile £32,200 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,168
% change year-on-year - +4.23% +5.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Engineer in England

Operations Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the England 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
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
Yorkshire +66 10 £60,000 +13.21%
North East -12 6 £60,000 +41.18%
South East -58 5 £52,500 +16.67% 6
Operations Engineer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (40.86%) Azure
2 53 (28.49%) Active Directory
3 50 (26.88%) ITIL
4 49 (26.34%) Microsoft
5 47 (25.27%) Windows
6 43 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (18.82%) AWS
8 32 (17.20%) Agile
9 31 (16.67%) Windows Server
9 31 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (16.13%) PowerShell
10 30 (16.13%) Cisco
11 29 (15.59%) Microsoft 365
12 28 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 27 (14.52%) SQL
14 26 (13.98%) Python
14 26 (13.98%) Firewall
15 25 (13.44%) Linux
16 24 (12.90%) Service Delivery
16 24 (12.90%) Change Management
16 24 (12.90%) Entra ID
17 23 (12.37%) DevOps
17 23 (12.37%) Cloud Operations
17 23 (12.37%) SCCM
18 22 (11.83%) Kubernetes
18 22 (11.83%) Terraform
19 21 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
19 21 (11.29%) Law
19 21 (11.29%) VoIP
20 20 (10.75%) Thin Client

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.06%) IIS
2 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 76 (40.86%) Azure
2 35 (18.82%) AWS
3 29 (15.59%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (12.90%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.75%) IaaS
5 20 (10.75%) PaaS
5 20 (10.75%) SaaS
6 13 (6.99%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.15%) Azure Storage
10 4 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.61%) Datadog
11 3 (1.61%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.61%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.08%) GitHub
13 1 (0.54%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.98%) Firewall
2 21 (11.29%) VoIP
3 15 (8.06%) DHCP
3 15 (8.06%) DNS
3 15 (8.06%) VPN
4 14 (7.53%) WAN
5 13 (6.99%) LAN
6 12 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (5.38%) Network Security
7 10 (5.38%) SAN
7 10 (5.38%) TCP/IP
8 5 (2.69%) BGP
8 5 (2.69%) Internet
8 5 (2.69%) OSPF
9 4 (2.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (2.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 4 (2.15%) MPLS
9 4 (2.15%) tcpdump
9 4 (2.15%) Unified Communications
9 4 (2.15%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.15%) MySQL
4 2 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.54%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.15%) Bitbucket
2 4 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (2.15%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.61%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.61%) JMeter
3 3 (1.61%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.61%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.08%) MLflow
5 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.54%) Git
5 1 (0.54%) GitLab
5 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 21 (11.29%) Law
2 20 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (10.75%) Social Skills
3 18 (9.68%) Finance
4 5 (2.69%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.61%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.61%) Marketing
6 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.54%) Advertising
7 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Legal
7 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.54%) Police
7 1 (0.54%) Retail
7 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (3.23%) Node.js
2 3 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.54%) .NET
3 1 (0.54%) ADO
3 1 (0.54%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.54%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) Fat Client
1 20 (10.75%) Thin Client
2 14 (7.53%) Data Centre
3 13 (6.99%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.45%) Driving Licence
5 11 (5.91%) Clustering
6 8 (4.30%) IoT
7 7 (3.76%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.23%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 5 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.69%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (2.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.61%) Management Information System
12 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 47 (25.27%) Windows
2 31 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 25 (13.44%) Linux
4 7 (3.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (2.69%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.15%) VMS
7 3 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.08%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.08%) Unix
9 1 (0.54%) Rocky
9 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.88%) ITIL
2 43 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (17.20%) Agile
4 31 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (15.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (12.90%) Change Management
6 24 (12.90%) Service Delivery
7 23 (12.37%) Cloud Operations
7 23 (12.37%) DevOps
8 21 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (10.75%) Project Planning
10 19 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (9.68%) Asset Management
12 16 (8.60%) High Availability
12 16 (8.60%) ITSM
12 16 (8.60%) Security Operations
13 14 (7.53%) SIEM
14 13 (6.99%) CI/CD
14 13 (6.99%) Customer Service
14 13 (6.99%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.13%) PowerShell
2 27 (14.52%) SQL
3 26 (13.98%) Python
4 13 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.84%) Java
6 7 (3.76%) C#
7 6 (3.23%) C++
7 6 (3.23%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.69%) Bash
9 4 (2.15%) Perl
10 2 (1.08%) PHP
10 2 (1.08%) Ruby
11 1 (0.54%) C
11 1 (0.54%) Go
11 1 (0.54%) Scala
11 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (7.53%) JNCIA
1 14 (7.53%) JNCIP
2 12 (6.45%) A+ Certification
2 12 (6.45%) Network+ Certification
3 10 (5.38%) Degree
4 7 (3.76%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.69%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.69%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.15%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.54%) CCNA
8 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.54%) HNC
8 1 (0.54%) HND
8 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.69%) NIST
3 4 (2.15%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.15%) QA
3 4 (2.15%) SLA
4 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) GRC
4 1 (0.54%) GxP
System Software
1 53 (28.49%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.60%) Docker
3 5 (2.69%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.54%) Samba
5 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (12.37%) SCCM
2 22 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.83%) Terraform
3 10 (5.38%) Ansible
3 10 (5.38%) Microsoft Clustering
3 10 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.76%) Opsgenie
5 4 (2.15%) Puppet
6 3 (1.61%) CASB
6 3 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.61%) Salt
7 2 (1.08%) Grafana
7 2 (1.08%) Nagios
7 2 (1.08%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.54%) DatAdvantage
8 1 (0.54%) QRadar
8 1 (0.54%) Stealthwatch
8 1 (0.54%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.54%) WSUS
8 1 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 49 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 30 (16.13%) Cisco
3 17 (9.14%) Veeam
4 15 (8.06%) Juniper
5 14 (7.53%) Fortinet
5 14 (7.53%) Palo Alto
6 10 (5.38%) VMware
7 6 (3.23%) Remedy
8 4 (2.15%) Barracuda Networks
8 4 (2.15%) CA
8 4 (2.15%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.15%) Cylance
8 4 (2.15%) F5
8 4 (2.15%) McAfee
8 4 (2.15%) Meraki
8 4 (2.15%) Oracle
9 3 (1.61%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.61%) Citrix
9 3 (1.61%) Splunk
10 2 (1.08%) Red Hat