Operations Manager Contracts in Merton

Operations Manager
South London > Merton

The median Operations Manager daily rate in Merton is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merton 4.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £525 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Merton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Merton. 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 Merton with a recognized job title 22 19 33
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 100.00% 97.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 25
10th Percentile £213 £193 £275
25th Percentile £240 £245 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £447 £550 £475
90th Percentile £488 £638 £540
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £39.64
25th Percentile - £40.82 -
Median hourly rate £21.21 £43.84 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -51.62% -13.05% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £46.86 £51.70
90th Percentile - - £56.85
South London median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
% change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%

Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

Job postings that featured Operations Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merton.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Manager in Merton

Operations Manager
Contract Job Locations in Merton

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 Merton 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
Morden - 1 £525 -
Operations Manager
South London

Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Operations Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Merton region featuring Operations Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust

Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware