Operations Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Operations Engineer salary in Work from Home is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 576 678
Rank change year-on-year +68 +102 -136
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 76 64 212
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.18% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 65 60 119
10th Percentile £49,750 £41,009 £36,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £68,125
90th Percentile £87,000 £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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 33,957 36,209 73,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.94% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,728 26,374 42,749
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,375
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 9 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 9 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 38 (50.00%) Azure
2 19 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (25.00%) AWS
3 16 (21.05%) SaaS
3 16 (21.05%) Windows
4 15 (19.74%) Cisco
4 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
5 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (18.42%) Palo Alto
5 14 (18.42%) Security Operations
5 14 (18.42%) Juniper
5 14 (18.42%) JNCIA
5 14 (18.42%) JNCIP
5 14 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (18.42%) Fortinet
6 13 (17.11%) Docker
6 13 (17.11%) Cloud Operations
7 12 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 12 (15.79%) DevOps
7 12 (15.79%) ITIL
7 12 (15.79%) PowerShell
7 12 (15.79%) SIEM
8 11 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (14.47%) Terraform
9 10 (13.16%) Linux
9 10 (13.16%) Agile
10 9 (11.84%) Python
10 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (11.84%) Data Science

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 (5.26%) IIS
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 38 (50.00%) Azure
2 19 (25.00%) AWS
3 16 (21.05%) SaaS
4 11 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (9.21%) IaaS
5 7 (9.21%) PaaS
6 6 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.26%) Azure Storage
8 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.95%) Datadog
9 3 (3.95%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.89%) Firewall
3 5 (6.58%) Network Security
4 4 (5.26%) BGP
4 4 (5.26%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 4 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (5.26%) Internet
4 4 (5.26%) MPLS
4 4 (5.26%) OSPF
4 4 (5.26%) tcpdump
4 4 (5.26%) Unified Communications
4 4 (5.26%) VPN
4 4 (5.26%) VXLAN
4 4 (5.26%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.32%) DHCP
5 1 (1.32%) DNS
5 1 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.95%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 4 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (5.26%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.95%) Eclipse
3 3 (3.95%) JMeter
3 3 (3.95%) Robot Framework
3 3 (3.95%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.63%) MLflow
5 1 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 5 (6.58%) Finance
2 4 (5.26%) Law
2 4 (5.26%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.95%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.32%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) Node.js
2 3 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.32%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Data Centre
1 7 (9.21%) IoT
2 6 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.89%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (6.58%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.32%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.05%) Windows
2 10 (13.16%) Linux
3 8 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.26%) VMS
4 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.42%) Cybersecurity
1 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (18.42%) Security Operations
2 13 (17.11%) Cloud Operations
3 12 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 12 (15.79%) DevOps
3 12 (15.79%) ITIL
3 12 (15.79%) SIEM
4 10 (13.16%) Agile
5 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (11.84%) Data Science
5 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (9.21%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (9.21%) DataOps
6 7 (9.21%) ETL
6 7 (9.21%) Service Management
6 7 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (7.89%) Mentoring
8 5 (6.58%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (6.58%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 9 (11.84%) Python
3 7 (9.21%) SQL
4 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.26%) Java
5 4 (5.26%) Perl
6 3 (3.95%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (18.42%) JNCIA
1 14 (18.42%) JNCIP
2 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.26%) NIST
2 4 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) SLA
3 3 (3.95%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.32%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) GxP
4 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (17.11%) Docker
2 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.47%) Terraform
3 7 (9.21%) Ansible
4 6 (7.89%) Opsgenie
5 5 (6.58%) Puppet
6 4 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.26%) Salt
7 3 (3.95%) CASB
8 1 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.32%) DatAdvantage
8 1 (1.32%) QRadar
8 1 (1.32%) SCCM
8 1 (1.32%) Stealthwatch
8 1 (1.32%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Cisco
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.42%) Fortinet
2 14 (18.42%) Juniper
2 14 (18.42%) Palo Alto
3 4 (5.26%) CA
3 4 (5.26%) F5
3 4 (5.26%) VMware
4 3 (3.95%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.95%) Oracle
4 3 (3.95%) Splunk
5 2 (2.63%) Citrix
5 2 (2.63%) Qualys
5 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.63%) Varonis
6 1 (1.32%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.32%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.32%) Symantec