Tech Ops Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Technical Operations (TechOps)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Tech Ops skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 - 103
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.063% - 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.50%
75th Percentile - - £391
90th Percentile - - £486
England median daily rate £500 £488 £428
% change year-on-year +2.56% +14.04% -23.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +144.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,350 956 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.38% 84.01% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 411 795
10th Percentile £187 £231 £247
25th Percentile £363 £338 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 184 359
10th Percentile £14.15 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tech Ops relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Tech Ops job vacancy trend in the East of England

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Tech Ops.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Tech Ops.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hertfordshire - 1 £575 -
Tech Ops
England

Tech Ops
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks