Tech Ops Contract Job Trends in Central London

Technical Operations (TechOps)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Tech Ops skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 132 156
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 +44
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.21% 0.085% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.093% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £507 - £471
25th Percentile £516 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -7.32% -5.09%
75th Percentile £656 £488 £534
90th Percentile £728 - £544
London median daily rate £535 £475 £530
% change year-on-year +12.63% -10.38% -1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Tech Ops 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,816 2,159 2,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.80% 91.87% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,224 1,388 1,972
10th Percentile £320 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £467 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% +3.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £541 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.59% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 29 18
10th Percentile £18.33 £18.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.40 £16.71
Median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -35.54%
75th Percentile £50.75 £61.25 £45.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £117.10 £57.73
London median hourly rate £30.50 £36.50 £36.94
% change year-on-year -16.44% -1.19% +4.06%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in Central London

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Tech Ops.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in Central London over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tech Ops in Central London

Tech Ops
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Tech Ops.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tech Ops within the Central London region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
City of London +4 4 £535 - 12
Tech Ops
London

Tech Ops
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Delivery Director
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Operations
1 1 (25.00%) Head of Technical Operations
1 1 (25.00%) IT Director
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Director
1 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery Director
1 1 (25.00%) Services Director
1 1 (25.00%) Subject Matter Expert
1 1 (25.00%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Metrics
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Avaya
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) New Relic
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Rollbar
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow