Operations Director Contracts in the UK excluding London

Director of Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Director of Operations daily rate in the UK excluding London is £1,150, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 - 458
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Director 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% - 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £788
25th Percentile £1,075 - £798
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,150 - £856
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.17%
75th Percentile £1,225 - £923
90th Percentile - - £939
UK median daily rate £1,100 £960 £813
% change year-on-year +14.58% +18.15% +12.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Operations Director
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Director in the UK excluding London

Operations Director
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Director in the UK excluding London

Operations Director
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 Director within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East - 1 £1,150 - 8
Operations Director
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Operations Director 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 Director in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence

Operations Director 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams