Operations Manager Contracts in London

Operations Manager
England > London

The median Operations Manager daily rate in London is £581 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 454 524
Rank change year-on-year +91 +70 -92
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 30 45 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 63
10th Percentile £264 £395 £370
25th Percentile £339 £500 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £800 £700 £623
90th Percentile - £775 £745
England median daily rate £519 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -13.54% +2.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.28
25th Percentile £20.98 - £33.83
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £36.41
75th Percentile £30.25 - £40.08
90th Percentile £50.08 - £42.28
England median hourly rate £39.34 £90.00 £35.81
% change year-on-year -56.29% +151.36% +44.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

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

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,650 25,900 36,972
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 95.31% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,044 18,722 26,970
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 298 455
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.63 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Manager in London

Operations Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for Operations Manager in London

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Manager in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Manager in London

Operations Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Manager in London.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Manager in London

Operations Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Operations Manager in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Operations Manager in London

Operations Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 25 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
East London - 4 - - 1
Central London +41 2 £375 -42.31% 7
West London +20 1 £625 - 3
Operations Manager
England

Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Operations Manager 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 London region featuring Operations Manager in the job title.

1 8 (26.67%) Security Operations
2 7 (23.33%) Degree
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (20.00%) Project Management
3 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 5 (16.67%) Budget Management
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (16.67%) Azure
4 5 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 4 (13.33%) Line Management
5 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 4 (13.33%) GIS
5 4 (13.33%) Business Development
5 4 (13.33%) Finance
5 4 (13.33%) Cisco
5 4 (13.33%) Information Security
5 4 (13.33%) Security Posture
5 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
6 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence

Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.33%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.33%) Asana
4 1 (3.33%) Dropbox
4 1 (3.33%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) LAN
2 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.33%) VoIP
2 1 (3.33%) WAN
2 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) GIS
2 3 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 6 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Advertising
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Billing
3 1 (3.33%) Legal
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing
3 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) FMCG
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Security Operations
2 6 (20.00%) Project Management
3 5 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 5 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 4 (13.33%) Business Development
4 4 (13.33%) Information Security
4 4 (13.33%) ITIL
4 4 (13.33%) Line Management
5 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Security
6 2 (6.67%) Customer Acquisition
6 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.67%) Product Strategy
6 2 (6.67%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.33%) CCNA
4 1 (3.33%) CCSK
4 1 (3.33%) CISM
4 1 (3.33%) CISSP
4 1 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.33%) GCIA
4 1 (3.33%) GCIH
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.33%) MCSE
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 3 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) Apple
4 1 (3.33%) Meraki
4 1 (3.33%) Nintex
4 1 (3.33%) Reuters
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) Sophos