Operations Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Operations Manager
England > London

The median Operations Manager daily rate in London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 355 399
Rank change year-on-year +21 +44 +136
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 39 26 37
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.29% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 25
10th Percentile £313 £326 £389
25th Percentile £405 £457 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £713
90th Percentile £753 - £725
England median daily rate £500 £523 £594
% change year-on-year -4.31% -12.00% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £25.50 -
25th Percentile £40.25 £26.63 -
Median hourly rate £41.50 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.33% - -
75th Percentile £42.75 £32.13 -
90th Percentile - £32.50 -
England median hourly rate £41.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -36.15% - -

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 12,385 14,895 19,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.06% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,246 9,671 14,260
10th Percentile £335 £348 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 166 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.36
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -5.85% +21.62%
75th Percentile £48.00 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.11 £79.75 £76.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.94 £45.88
% change year-on-year -41.43% -6.41% +60.98%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +9 5 £500 -24.53% 9
West London - 4 - - 1
Operations Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 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 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (23.08%) SaaS
3 8 (20.51%) Decision-Making
3 8 (20.51%) Project Management
3 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (15.38%) AWS
4 6 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (15.38%) Change Management
4 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 6 (15.38%) Salesforce
5 5 (12.82%) Agile
5 5 (12.82%) Contract Management
5 5 (12.82%) CRM
5 5 (12.82%) Data Protection
5 5 (12.82%) Degree
5 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (12.82%) Process Improvement
5 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
5 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
5 5 (12.82%) Service Management
6 4 (10.26%) Change Control
6 4 (10.26%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.26%) Data Quality
6 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (10.26%) GitHub
6 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (10.26%) ITIL

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 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) SaaS
2 6 (15.38%) AWS
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (10.26%) GitHub
5 3 (7.69%) Azure
5 3 (7.69%) Google Sheets
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.56%) dbt
6 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.56%) GoToWebinar
6 1 (2.56%) MailChimp
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DHCP
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
1 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (2.56%) LAN
1 1 (2.56%) MPLS
1 1 (2.56%) Network Security
1 1 (2.56%) SAN
1 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.56%) VPN
1 1 (2.56%) WAN
1 1 (2.56%) WebEx
1 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (2.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.56%) Power BI
1 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 18 (46.15%) Finance
2 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Marketing
4 5 (12.82%) Billing
4 5 (12.82%) Legal
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
6 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.13%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (5.13%) Local Government
7 2 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.56%) Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) EDI
1 1 (2.56%) Pandas
1 1 (2.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 3 (7.69%) Reinsurance
2 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.13%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.56%) CUDA
3 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) FMCG
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.56%) CentOS
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
1 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (20.51%) Decision-Making
2 8 (20.51%) Project Management
2 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (15.38%) Change Management
3 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 5 (12.82%) Agile
4 5 (12.82%) Contract Management
4 5 (12.82%) CRM
4 5 (12.82%) Data Protection
4 5 (12.82%) Process Improvement
4 5 (12.82%) Service Management
5 4 (10.26%) Change Control
5 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (10.26%) ITIL
5 4 (10.26%) Service Delivery
5 4 (10.26%) SIEM
5 4 (10.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) Python
1 2 (5.13%) SQL
2 1 (2.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
1 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) CISSP
2 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (2.56%) ISSMP
2 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) SLA
3 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.13%) NCSC
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Ansible
1 1 (2.56%) Grafana
1 1 (2.56%) Kibana
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) SCCM
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 6 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 4 (10.26%) SAP
3 3 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) NVIDIA
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) Adobe
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks
5 1 (2.56%) Remedy
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Sophos
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk