Operations Management Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Operations Management
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Operations Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operations Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.36% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Wales median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 240 289 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 85.71% 81.41% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 148 273
10th Percentile £195 £161 £185
25th Percentile £275 £212 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £646 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 39 20
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.42 £16.63
25th Percentile £14.23 £19.50 £21.86
Median hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -16.20% +49.16%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £53.19
90th Percentile £29.29 £50.75 £55.38
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.18 £27.17
% change year-on-year -18.59% -7.31% +50.92%

Operations Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Operations Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Operations Management job vacancy trend in South Wales

Operations Management
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Operations Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Operations Management

Operations Management
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Cardiff - 1 - -
Operations Management
Wales

Operations Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#