Operations Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Operations Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 422 460
Rank change year-on-year +62 +38 -72
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 25 34 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.14% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 26
10th Percentile £375 £410 £371
25th Percentile £400 £440 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £488 £626 £675
90th Percentile £520 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -20.83% +2.56% +17.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £90.00 £35.20
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +155.68% +42.22%
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £39.34 £90.00 £35.20
% change year-on-year -56.29% +155.68% +40.80%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
South West +27 10 £400 - 11
South East +19 10 - - 14
Yorkshire +21 2 £475 +6.74% 4
Wales +19 2 £475 +49.61%
North of England +16 2 £475 +7.95% 8
East of England -1 1 £550 -8.41% 11
Operations Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Operations Manager in the job title.

1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Information Security
2 6 (24.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (20.00%) Law
3 5 (20.00%) Legal
3 5 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 5 (20.00%) Reuters
3 5 (20.00%) Project Management
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (20.00%) Degree
3 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (12.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (12.00%) Statistics
4 3 (12.00%) Operations Management
4 3 (12.00%) Logistics
4 3 (12.00%) ITIL
4 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (12.00%) Validation
4 3 (12.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Proactive Management
4 3 (12.00%) Power BI

Operations Manager 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:

Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.00%) SaaS
2 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) VLAN
1 1 (4.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Law
2 5 (20.00%) Legal
2 5 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Health Technology
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Information Security
2 5 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (20.00%) Project Management
2 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (12.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (12.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (12.00%) ITIL
3 3 (12.00%) Logistics
3 3 (12.00%) Operations Management
3 3 (12.00%) Proactive Management
3 3 (12.00%) Statistics
3 3 (12.00%) Validation
4 2 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (4.00%) Change Management
5 1 (4.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) UAG
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Reuters
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco
2 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk