IT Operations Manager Contracts in England

IT Operations Manager
UK > England

The median IT Operations Manager daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 535 634
Rank change year-on-year +67 +99 +128
Contract jobs requiring an IT Operations Manager 17 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.019% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.020% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 13
10th Percentile £477 £368 -
25th Percentile £481 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £440
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -9.09% -24.79%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £675
90th Percentile £550 £655 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £425 £440
% change year-on-year +23.53% -3.41% -24.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.12 -
UK median hourly rate - £30.12 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

IT Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Operations Manager in England

IT Operations Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Operations Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for IT Operations Manager in England

IT Operations Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Operations Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for IT Operations Manager in England

IT Operations Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Operations Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East - 12 - -
London +39 4 £538 - 5
Midlands - 1 £475 - 3
West Midlands - 1 £475 - 3
IT Operations Manager
UK

IT Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 England region featuring IT Operations Manager in the job title.

1 13 (76.47%) Telecoms
2 12 (70.59%) Retail
2 12 (70.59%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (58.82%) Splunk
4 7 (41.18%) Data Analysis
4 7 (41.18%) Dynatrace
4 7 (41.18%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (41.18%) DataOps
5 5 (29.41%) Finance
5 5 (29.41%) Balanced Scorecard
5 5 (29.41%) Quality Management
5 5 (29.41%) Scorecard
5 5 (29.41%) Customer Experience
6 4 (23.53%) ITIL
6 4 (23.53%) Windows
6 4 (23.53%) Billing
6 4 (23.53%) Azure
6 4 (23.53%) AWS
7 3 (17.65%) QA
7 3 (17.65%) Performance Management
7 3 (17.65%) DNS
7 3 (17.65%) Firewall
8 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics
8 2 (11.76%) Analytics
8 2 (11.76%) Self-Awareness
8 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
8 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
8 2 (11.76%) Change Management
8 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
8 2 (11.76%) Local Government

IT Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
General
1 13 (76.47%) Telecoms
2 12 (70.59%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (70.59%) Retail
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Billing
5 2 (11.76%) Local Government
5 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Actionable Insight
1 7 (41.18%) Data Analysis
1 7 (41.18%) DataOps
2 5 (29.41%) Balanced Scorecard
2 5 (29.41%) Customer Experience
2 5 (29.41%) Quality Management
2 5 (29.41%) Scorecard
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Performance Management
5 2 (11.76%) Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Change Management
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Self-Awareness
5 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (5.88%) High Availability
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (5.88%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Splunk
2 7 (41.18%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) VMware