Head of Operations Contracts in England

Head of Operations
UK > England

The median Head of Operations daily rate in England is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 644 755
Rank change year-on-year +109 +111 -161
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Operations 8 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.027% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.029% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 17
10th Percentile £456 £658 £548
25th Percentile £516 £700 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £713 £750
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £744 £894 £900
90th Percentile £875 £953 £915
UK median daily rate £700 £700 £690
% change year-on-year - +1.45% -8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

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

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Head of Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Operations in England

Head of Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Head of Operations in England.

Daily rate trend for Head of Operations in England

Head of Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Operations in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Operations in England

Head of Operations
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Operations within the England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
London +105 4 £700 -12.50% 11
South East +16 3 £1,000 +56.25% 5
Midlands +35 1 £500 -31.03% 2
West Midlands +27 1 £500 -31.03% 2
Head of Operations
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Head of Operations 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 England region featuring Head of Operations in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Nessus
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Line Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) CASB
4 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform

Head of Operations 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (37.50%) Information Security
2 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Line Management
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
4 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 2 (25.00%) Nessus
3 1 (12.50%) CASB
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) VMware