Operations Manager Jobs in the West Midlands

Operations Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Operations Manager salary in the West Midlands is £53,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 239 253
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -36
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Manager 17 32 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.48% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.54% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 16
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,625
25th Percentile £48,375 £55,201 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% -3.70% +42.11%
75th Percentile £58,000 £80,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £60,750 £82,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% -3.45% +21.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,812 5,981 6,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 89.97% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,151 3,348 4,771
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%

Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Manager in the West Midlands

Operations Manager
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Manager in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Operations Manager in the West Midlands

Operations Manager
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Manager in the West Midlands

Operations Manager
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Solihull +10 7 £62,500 -3.85%
Wolverhampton +12 5 £53,500 -
Birmingham -12 3 £45,000 -45.45% 4
Warwickshire +56 2 £56,500 - 3
Operations Manager
England

Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Operations Manager 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 West Midlands region featuring Operations Manager in the job title.

1 13 (76.47%) Finance
2 11 (64.71%) Management Information System
2 11 (64.71%) Change Management
3 9 (52.94%) Service Delivery
4 8 (47.06%) Incident Management
5 7 (41.18%) Supplier Management
5 7 (41.18%) Retail
5 7 (41.18%) Service Delivery Management
5 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
6 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (35.29%) SLA
7 5 (29.41%) NHS
7 5 (29.41%) Project Management
7 5 (29.41%) Quality Management
7 5 (29.41%) Information Security
7 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (29.41%) Environmental Health
7 5 (29.41%) Cost Control
7 5 (29.41%) GDPR
7 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (29.41%) Customer Service
7 5 (29.41%) Budgeting
7 5 (29.41%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (17.65%) Logistics
8 3 (17.65%) Service Management
8 3 (17.65%) ITIL
9 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (11.76%) ITSM
9 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (11.76%) Major Incident Management

Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
General
1 13 (76.47%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) Retail
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Environmental Health
3 5 (29.41%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Management Information System
2 5 (29.41%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Change Management
2 9 (52.94%) Service Delivery
3 8 (47.06%) Incident Management
4 7 (41.18%) Service Delivery Management
4 7 (41.18%) Supplier Management
5 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (29.41%) Budgeting
6 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (29.41%) Cost Control
6 5 (29.41%) Customer Service
6 5 (29.41%) Information Security
6 5 (29.41%) Project Management
6 5 (29.41%) Quality Management
7 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 3 (17.65%) Logistics
7 3 (17.65%) Service Management
8 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.76%) ITSM
8 2 (11.76%) SIAM
8 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) SLA
2 5 (29.41%) GDPR
2 5 (29.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory