Tech Ops Contracts in London

Technical Operations (TechOps)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Tech Ops skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tech Ops over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 383 478
Rank change year-on-year +34 +95 +94
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 4 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.045% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.051% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 13
10th Percentile £401 - £318
25th Percentile £401 £263 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £275 £475
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% -42.11% -12.04%
75th Percentile £411 £288 £688
90th Percentile £414 - £698
England median daily rate £450 £325 £500
% change year-on-year +38.46% -35.00% -0.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in London

Tech Ops
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops in London.

Daily rate trend for Tech Ops in London

Tech Ops
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops in London.

Hourly rate trend for Tech Ops in London

Tech Ops
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 Tech Ops within the London 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
Central London - 2 - - 3
Tech Ops
England

Tech Ops
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Director
1 1 (25.00%) Support Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Support Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Aruba
1 1 (25.00%) Avaya
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Ruckus Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) VMware