Head of Technical Operations Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Head of Technical Operations
Central London > City of London

The median Head of Technical Operations daily rate in the City of London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Technical Operations 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £750 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,639 2,000 2,770
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 94.12% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 1,250 1,916
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £596
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.56% +3.70%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 13
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.25 £16.69
25th Percentile £22.88 £22.84 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.15 £48.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.35% +33.33% -7.10%
75th Percentile £50.25 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £70.21 £137.50 £65.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.83 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -20.50% -1.41% -8.39%

Head of Technical Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Technical Operations in the City of London

Head of Technical Operations Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 25 September 2025, Head of Technical Operations 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 City of London region featuring Head of Technical Operations in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) Rollbar
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Culture of Ownership

Head of Technical Operations Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Culture of Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Rollbar