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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 379 450
Rank change year-on-year +22 +71 +145
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 11 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.081% 0.031% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% 0.035% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile £385 £286 £402
25th Percentile £400 £315 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £374 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.70% -32.05% +3.77%
75th Percentile £500 £435 £650
90th Percentile £574 £467 £688
England median daily rate £450 £475 £530
% change year-on-year -5.26% -10.38% +0.95%

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 12,520 14,370 21,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.31% 88.87% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,337 10,055 15,463
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 198 227
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £23.23
Median hourly rate £29.29 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% -12.50% +7.47%
75th Percentile £48.94 £53.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.44 £80.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -40.82% +3.61% +53.35%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in London over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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

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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 16 August 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 -4 2 £500 +5.26% 6
West London - 1 £375 - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
1 3 (27.27%) PaaS
1 3 (27.27%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Mimecast
2 2 (18.18%) OneDrive
2 2 (18.18%) Tessian
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
1 4 (36.36%) WAN
2 3 (27.27%) SD-WAN
3 2 (18.18%) DMARC
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security
3 2 (18.18%) SMTP
3 2 (18.18%) VPN
3 2 (18.18%) Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) BGP
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) DHCP
4 1 (9.09%) DNS
4 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
4 1 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (9.09%) OSPF
4 1 (9.09%) SSL
4 1 (9.09%) VLAN
4 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Law
1 3 (27.27%) Legal
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Specialist
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Lead
2 1 (9.09%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Operations Director
2 1 (9.09%) Principal Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Principal SAP Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (9.09%) Support Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (9.09%) Fat Client
3 1 (9.09%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
2 3 (27.27%) Data Centre Operations
2 3 (27.27%) ERP
2 3 (27.27%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) Observability
3 2 (18.18%) Antivirus Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) Service Management
3 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) CCSA
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CA Spectrum
1 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
2 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (18.18%) Veeam
4 1 (9.09%) Aruba
4 1 (9.09%) Avaya
4 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix
4 1 (9.09%) F5
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Infoblox
4 1 (9.09%) Juniper
4 1 (9.09%) Meraki
4 1 (9.09%) Ruckus Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds