Operations Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Operations Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Operations Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 458 513
Rank change year-on-year +72 +55 -97
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Consultant 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.004% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.004% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £528 - £698
25th Percentile £531 - £731
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £850
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -17.65% +28.30%
75th Percentile £631 - £1,006
90th Percentile £643 - £1,063
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £568
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.73% -9.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,251 22,726 29,670
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 94.14% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 15,918 20,742
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,230 1,187 1,502
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Operations Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Operations Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Consultant in the UK excluding London

Operations Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Operations Consultant in the UK excluding London

Operations Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Consultant in the UK excluding London

Operations Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
South East - 4 £575 -
Operations Consultant
UK

Operations Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Operations Consultant 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 UK excluding London region featuring Operations Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Retention
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Telematics
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) COBIT

Operations Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Retention
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) COBIT
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft