Operations Management Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Operations Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Operations Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 109 116
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing Operations Management 10 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.72% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile - - £365
25th Percentile £513 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.23%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £541 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £450 £558
% change year-on-year +16.67% -19.28% -0.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Operations Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,247 1,416 1,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.58% 89.62% 91.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 775 984
10th Percentile £306 £315 £213
25th Percentile £413 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £621
90th Percentile £650 £691 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 45 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £22.85 £24.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £38.86 £58.38 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -33.43% -5.00% +26.05%
75th Percentile £78.75 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.19 £76.47
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £54.68 £52.50
% change year-on-year -59.77% +4.15% +20.69%

Operations Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Operations Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Operations Management job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Operations Management
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Operations Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Operations Management

Operations Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Operations Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Operations Management

Operations Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 December 2025. 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
Reading +14 2 £525 - 1
Wokingham - 2 - -
Operations Management
South East

Operations Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
General
1 8 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Architect
1 8 (80.00%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) REST
1 3 (30.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) ITSM
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Proactive Management
4 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) BMC
2 2 (20.00%) Remedy