Senior Operations Engineer Contracts

Senior Operations Engineer
UK

The median Senior Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 689 837
Rank change year-on-year +107 +148 -114
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Operations Engineer 20 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.011% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.011% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £409 £619 £375
25th Percentile £628 £647 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £523
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +31.58% +4.50%
75th Percentile £709 £709 £610
90th Percentile £726 £726 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £719 £469
% change year-on-year -23.48% +53.25% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Operations Engineer in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Operations Engineer in the UK

Senior Operations Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Operations Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +108 19 £700 +1.82% 4
London +98 16 £700 +9.80% 1
Work from Home +119 8 £700 - 1
UK excluding London +42 3 £550 -23.48% 3
Scotland - 1 £675 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £425 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (80.00%) Firewall
2 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 11 (55.00%) DV Cleared
3 11 (55.00%) Roadmaps
4 10 (50.00%) Service Delivery
5 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
7 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.00%) Security Operations
7 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
7 2 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) SQL
7 2 (10.00%) Linux
7 2 (10.00%) Python
7 2 (10.00%) Agile
7 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (10.00%) Groovy
7 2 (10.00%) Git
7 2 (10.00%) SIEM
7 2 (10.00%) AWS
7 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (5.00%) PaaS
8 1 (5.00%) Bash
8 1 (5.00%) E-Discovery
8 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
8 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
8 1 (5.00%) Performance Tuning

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (5.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) IaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) PaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (5.00%) IP Telephony
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Metadata
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Gradle
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Maven
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
1 1 (5.00%) XML
1 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) CMDB
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
1 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (5.00%) Insider Threat
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Roadmaps
2 10 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (10.00%) Agile
4 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (10.00%) SIEM
5 1 (5.00%) Attack Monitoring
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps
5 1 (5.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 1 (5.00%) RBAC
5 1 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (5.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Groovy
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) NCSC
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle