Tech Ops Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Technical Operations (TechOps)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 118 122 149
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 +54
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.047% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.051% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £507 - £471
25th Percentile £516 - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.09%
75th Percentile £656 - £534
90th Percentile £728 - £544
Central London median daily rate £535 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +12.63% -7.32% -5.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,644 1,950 2,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.21% 91.76% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 1,226 1,833
10th Percentile £325 £365 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £789 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.28% +3.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 17
10th Percentile £16.96 £15.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.88 £21.25 £16.61
Median hourly rate £28.15 £38.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.88% +40.00% -34.52%
75th Percentile £50.25 £102.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -35.54%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the City of London

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Tech Ops.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Tech Ops in the City of London

Tech Ops
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Tech Ops.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
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 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