Tech Ops Contract Job Trends in the South East

Technical Operations (TechOps)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Tech Ops skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 - 205
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.13% - 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £183 - -
25th Percentile £288 - £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £168
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.17%
75th Percentile £488 - £171
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £425 £325
% change year-on-year +23.53% +30.77% -35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.62 - -
Median hourly rate £16.71 - -
75th Percentile £17.79 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.36 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +144.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,303 2,740 4,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.73% 91.79% 86.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,820 1,732 2,914
10th Percentile £273 £250 £213
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -1.48%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £612
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 136 380
10th Percentile £15.04 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £18.20
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +3.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £79.26 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £75.16
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tech Ops relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Tech Ops job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Tech Ops.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in the South East over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Tech Ops in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Tech Ops.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. 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
Hampshire - 3 £475 -
Thames Valley - 3 - - 3
Berkshire - 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 1
Surrey - 1 - -
Tech Ops
England

Tech Ops
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) FTP
1 2 (28.57%) SMTP
1 2 (28.57%) Telnet
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Operations Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Services Delivery Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Services Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Technical Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Service Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Operations Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Services Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Wintel Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Coordinator
3 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow Management
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Operational Stability
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) NFS
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
1 2 (28.57%) VMware