Operations Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Operations Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 145 193
Rank change year-on-year +13 +48 -37
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 3 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.40% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.42% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £444 £475
25th Percentile £440 £519 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £583
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.30% -
75th Percentile £460 - £662
90th Percentile - £546 £704
England median daily rate £500 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -14.89% +11.90% +3.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,482 3,101 4,798
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 94.54% 96.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,180 3,495
10th Percentile £213 £223 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +14.91%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £563
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 116 164
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £10.87
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.00 £14.58
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +16.63% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.88
90th Percentile £52.45 £61.25 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Operations Engineer in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Engineer in the Midlands

Operations Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +16 3 £450 -16.67% 2
Operations Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Operations Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Server Management
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Server Management
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware