Tech Ops Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Technical Operations (TechOps)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Tech Ops skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.54% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% - 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £425
75th Percentile £438 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £525 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -42.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 330 285 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.71% 88.79% 86.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 198 224
10th Percentile £303 £363 £359
25th Percentile £413 £460 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £660 £688
90th Percentile £700 £734 £750
South West median daily rate £524 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -0.19% -0.94% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 47
10th Percentile £14.36 £22.30 £17.23
25th Percentile £25.43 £33.34 £34.00
Median hourly rate £51.21 £66.25 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -22.70% +35.98% -18.80%
75th Percentile £67.96 £68.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £73.73 £69.38 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £52.21
% change year-on-year -11.54% +24.51% -15.11%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Tech Ops job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Tech Ops.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 February 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 1 - - 1
Gloucester - 1 £425 -
Tech Ops
South West

Tech Ops
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker