Tech Ops Contract Job Trends in the South West

Technical Operations (TechOps)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Tech Ops skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 116 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 3 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% 0.42% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £428
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.11% -25.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
England median hourly rate £23.18 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +144.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,930 1,849 2,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 84.06% 86.77% 87.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 1,137 1,758
10th Percentile £263 £284 £300
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £727 £725
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 130 264
10th Percentile £15.25 £19.41 £20.65
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.63 £45.75
Median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Tech Ops job vacancy trend in the South West

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Tech Ops
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Tech Ops
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Bristol -7 1 - - 4
Wiltshire -11 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 £425 - 1
Tech Ops
England

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian