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 to 1 June 2024.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 609 653 672
Rank change year-on-year +44 +19 -74
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 159 83 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.17% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 119 61 120
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £27,263
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% +3.33% -2.17%
75th Percentile £66,875 £53,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,250 -
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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 1 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 1 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 +79 61 £65,000 +36.84% 5
North West +37 45 £65,000 +46.07% 4
Midlands +14 43 £40,000 -15.79% 8
West Midlands -1 26 £48,750 +2.63% 4
East of England +19 21 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -4 17 £40,000 +14.29% 4
South West -17 13 £60,000 +14.29% 7
Scotland -58 13 £33,000 -11.74% 2
Yorkshire +63 10 £60,000 +13.21%
North East -5 6 £60,000 +41.18% 1
South East -36 6 £53,750 +19.44% 6
Wales - 3 £28,750 -
Operations Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 62 (38.99%) Azure
2 48 (30.19%) Active Directory
3 43 (27.04%) Microsoft
4 41 (25.79%) ITIL
5 38 (23.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 37 (23.27%) Windows
7 36 (22.64%) Cisco
8 32 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (16.35%) Agile
10 26 (16.35%) SQL
11 25 (15.72%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (15.72%) AWS
12 24 (15.09%) Windows Server
12 24 (15.09%) Change Management
12 24 (15.09%) VoIP
13 23 (14.47%) Firewall
14 22 (13.84%) Service Delivery
14 22 (13.84%) Cloud Operations
15 21 (13.21%) PowerShell
15 21 (13.21%) SCCM
16 20 (12.58%) Fat Client
16 20 (12.58%) Project Planning
16 20 (12.58%) Thin Client
17 18 (11.32%) Social Skills
17 18 (11.32%) Linux
17 18 (11.32%) Asset Management
17 18 (11.32%) Entra ID
17 18 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
18 17 (10.69%) Law

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 (9.43%) IIS
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 62 (38.99%) Azure
2 25 (15.72%) AWS
2 25 (15.72%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (11.32%) Entra ID
4 13 (8.18%) IaaS
4 13 (8.18%) PaaS
5 12 (7.55%) SaaS
6 10 (6.29%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.52%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.89%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.26%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 1 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.09%) VoIP
2 23 (14.47%) Firewall
3 15 (9.43%) DHCP
3 15 (9.43%) DNS
3 15 (9.43%) WAN
4 13 (8.18%) LAN
5 12 (7.55%) VPN
6 10 (6.29%) SAN
7 9 (5.66%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (3.77%) Network Security
9 4 (2.52%) Internet
10 3 (1.89%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.89%) VLAN
11 2 (1.26%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.63%) BGP
12 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
12 1 (0.63%) FTP
12 1 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.63%) OSPF
12 1 (0.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.81%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.89%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.89%) MySQL
4 2 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Bitbucket
1 4 (2.52%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (2.52%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.89%) Eclipse
2 3 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.89%) JMeter
2 3 (1.89%) Robot Framework
2 3 (1.89%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.63%) GitLab
General
1 18 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
1 18 (11.32%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.69%) Law
3 8 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.14%) Finance
5 3 (1.89%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.89%) Marketing
6 2 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.63%) Legal
7 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.63%) Retail
7 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.77%) Node.js
2 3 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.63%) .NET
3 1 (0.63%) ADO
3 1 (0.63%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.58%) Fat Client
1 20 (12.58%) Thin Client
2 13 (8.18%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.29%) Clustering
4 9 (5.66%) Driving Licence
5 8 (5.03%) IoT
6 7 (4.40%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (3.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (3.14%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.14%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (2.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.26%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.26%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.63%) Cybercrime
11 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (23.27%) Windows
2 24 (15.09%) Windows Server
3 18 (11.32%) Linux
4 6 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.52%) VMS
5 4 (2.52%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.26%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.63%) Unix
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (25.79%) ITIL
2 38 (23.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 32 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (16.35%) Agile
6 24 (15.09%) Change Management
7 22 (13.84%) Cloud Operations
7 22 (13.84%) Service Delivery
8 20 (12.58%) Project Planning
9 18 (11.32%) Asset Management
10 16 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (10.06%) High Availability
10 16 (10.06%) Security Operations
11 14 (8.81%) DevOps
12 13 (8.18%) SIEM
13 12 (7.55%) Customer Service
13 12 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (6.92%) ITSM
14 11 (6.92%) Patch Management
15 10 (6.29%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.35%) SQL
2 21 (13.21%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.55%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.66%) Python
5 7 (4.40%) C#
6 6 (3.77%) C++
6 6 (3.77%) Java
6 6 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.52%) Bash
8 1 (0.63%) C
8 1 (0.63%) Go
8 1 (0.63%) PHP
8 1 (0.63%) Ruby
8 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (8.81%) JNCIA
1 14 (8.81%) JNCIP
2 9 (5.66%) A+ Certification
2 9 (5.66%) Network+ Certification
3 6 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.52%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.52%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.89%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.26%) Degree
7 1 (0.63%) CCNA
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.14%) NIST
3 4 (2.52%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.52%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) GRC
4 1 (0.63%) GxP
System Software
1 48 (30.19%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.77%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.14%) Docker
3 5 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.63%) Samba
Systems Management
1 21 (13.21%) SCCM
2 11 (6.92%) Terraform
3 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Clustering
4 9 (5.66%) Kubernetes
5 7 (4.40%) Opsgenie
6 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (3.14%) Ansible
8 2 (1.26%) CASB
8 2 (1.26%) Nagios
8 2 (1.26%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.63%) DatAdvantage
9 1 (0.63%) Grafana
9 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.63%) Puppet
9 1 (0.63%) QRadar
9 1 (0.63%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.63%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 43 (27.04%) Microsoft
2 36 (22.64%) Cisco
3 15 (9.43%) Juniper
4 14 (8.81%) Fortinet
4 14 (8.81%) Palo Alto
4 14 (8.81%) Veeam
5 10 (6.29%) Meraki
5 10 (6.29%) VMware
6 6 (3.77%) Remedy
7 4 (2.52%) Barracuda Networks
7 4 (2.52%) CyberArk
7 4 (2.52%) Cylance
7 4 (2.52%) McAfee
8 3 (1.89%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.89%) Oracle
8 3 (1.89%) Splunk
9 2 (1.26%) Citrix
9 2 (1.26%) Qualys
9 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.26%) Varonis