Operations Director Contracts in England

Director of Operations
UK > England

The median Director of Operations daily rate in England is £1,125, 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 481 540 648
Rank change year-on-year +59 +108 +127
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Director 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.005% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.006% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £1,008 £928 -
25th Percentile £1,019 £940 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,125 £960 £725
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +32.41% +5.45%
75th Percentile £1,219 £980 £738
90th Percentile £1,223 £992 -
UK median daily rate £1,100 £960 £813
% change year-on-year +14.58% +18.15% +12.07%

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%

Operations Director
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Director in England

Operations Director
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Director in England

Operations Director
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 Operations Director 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
London +39 3 £1,100 +14.58% 30
South East - 1 £1,150 - 7
Operations Director
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Operations Director 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 Operations Director in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) People Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring

Operations Director 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) People Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Avaya