Operations Management Contracts in Northern Ireland

Operations Management
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Operations Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operations Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operations Management 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.89% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £329 - -
25th Percentile £372 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £572 - -
90th Percentile £626 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £646
% change year-on-year -9.09% -14.86% +19.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £28.50 - -
Median hourly rate £29.00 - -
75th Percentile £29.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.22 £28.25 £73.44
% change year-on-year -10.74% -61.53% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

Operations Management 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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 112 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.45% 75.68% 76.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 56 79
10th Percentile £154 £211 £164
25th Percentile £295 £355 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £506 £413
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% +22.73% -5.71%
75th Percentile £532 £581 £508
90th Percentile £625 £663 £626
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Operations Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Operations Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Management in Northern Ireland

Operations Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Management in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Operations Management in Northern Ireland

Operations Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Management in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Management in Northern Ireland

Operations Management
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Management within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 2 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
County Antrim - 3 £463 -
Operations Management
UK

Operations Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) General Ledger
2 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Transparency
2 2 (66.67%) Epics
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Internal Audit
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft