Operations Manager Contracts in the City of London

Operations Manager
Central London > City of London

The median Operations Manager daily rate in the City of London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 May 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 120 158
Rank change year-on-year +3 +38 +21
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 2 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.12% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £528 £435 £542
25th Percentile £569 £544 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% +20.37%
75th Percentile £744 £775 £675
90th Percentile £793 - £683
Central London median daily rate £425 £750 £650
% change year-on-year -43.33% +15.38% +20.37%

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 1,555 2,046 3,312
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 94.99% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 972 1,434 2,246
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -8.29% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £788 £814
Central London median daily rate £551 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +0.18% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 21
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.90 £15.50
25th Percentile £23.31 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.33 £22.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.51% -35.00% -3.45%
75th Percentile £45.00 £28.91 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.88 £40.00 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.30 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.94% -23.49% -5.41%

Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Manager in the City of London

Operations Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Manager in the City of London

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Manager in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Manager in the City of London

Operations Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Manager in the City of London

Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 City of London region featuring Operations Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management

Operations Manager 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware