Operations Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Operations Manager
England > London

The median Operations Manager daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 368 395
Rank change year-on-year +33 +27 +124
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 45 20 31
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.32% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 8 26
10th Percentile £321 £344 £372
25th Percentile £400 £395 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £570
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +6.14% +14.00%
75th Percentile £741 £775 £722
90th Percentile £750 - £800
England median daily rate £500 £462 £598
% change year-on-year +8.40% -22.76% +13.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £39.85 £33.15 -
25th Percentile £40.75 £34.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -40.00% +164.38%
75th Percentile £46.25 £41.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £47.15 £42.65 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -33.08% +4.00% +164.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,031 14,720 18,583
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 93.72% 93.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,630 9,533 13,448
10th Percentile £335 £340 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £794 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.43% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 160 217
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.10
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.33 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.78 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +3.22% +3.80%
75th Percentile £49.75 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.20 £80.79 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +41.17%

Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Operations Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Operations Manager job vacancy trend in London

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Manager job vacancies in London

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Manager in London over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Manager in London

Operations Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Operations Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Operations Manager job vacancies in London

Operations Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 25 November 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
Central London +6 6 £500 -13.04% 1
West London - 4 - - 2
Operations Manager
England

Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 November 2025, Operations Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Operations Manager in the job title.

1 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (17.78%) Agile
4 8 (17.78%) SaaS
4 8 (17.78%) Security Operations
4 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (15.56%) Azure
5 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
5 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
5 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
6 6 (13.33%) AWS
6 6 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (13.33%) Change Management
6 6 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (13.33%) Incident Response
6 6 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (13.33%) Process Improvement
6 6 (13.33%) Project Management
6 6 (13.33%) Salesforce
6 6 (13.33%) SQL
7 5 (11.11%) CRM
7 5 (11.11%) Data Protection
7 5 (11.11%) Degree
7 5 (11.11%) ITIL
7 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (11.11%) Service Management
8 4 (8.89%) Accounts Payable
8 4 (8.89%) Analytics
8 4 (8.89%) B2B

Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.44%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.78%) SaaS
2 7 (15.56%) Azure
3 6 (13.33%) AWS
4 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.89%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (8.89%) GitHub
6 3 (6.67%) Google Sheets
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.22%) dbt
7 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.22%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.22%) MailChimp
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) DHCP
1 1 (2.22%) DNS
1 1 (2.22%) Firewall
1 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (2.22%) LAN
1 1 (2.22%) MPLS
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
1 1 (2.22%) SAN
1 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.22%) VPN
1 1 (2.22%) WAN
1 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Tableau
2 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 20 (44.44%) Finance
2 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Marketing
4 5 (11.11%) Billing
4 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.89%) Legal
5 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.44%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (4.44%) Local Government
6 2 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.22%) Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) EDI
1 1 (2.22%) Pandas
1 1 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (8.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.67%) Reinsurance
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.22%) CUDA
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) FMCG
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
1 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
1 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.22%) AIX
2 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.22%) CentOS
2 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 8 (17.78%) Agile
3 8 (17.78%) Security Operations
3 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (13.33%) Change Management
4 6 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (13.33%) Incident Response
4 6 (13.33%) Process Improvement
4 6 (13.33%) Project Management
5 5 (11.11%) CRM
5 5 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 5 (11.11%) ITIL
5 5 (11.11%) Service Management
6 4 (8.89%) Change Control
6 4 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (8.89%) Performance Management
6 4 (8.89%) SIEM
6 4 (8.89%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) SQL
2 2 (4.44%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) CISSP
3 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.22%) ISSMP
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.44%) NCSC
3 2 (4.44%) SLA
4 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.22%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
1 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Ansible
1 2 (4.44%) SCCM
2 1 (2.22%) Grafana
2 1 (2.22%) Kibana
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) SCOM
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.89%) Google
3 4 (8.89%) SAP
4 3 (6.67%) VMware
5 2 (4.44%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.22%) Databricks
6 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.22%) Remedy
6 1 (2.22%) Sophos
6 1 (2.22%) Splunk