Operations Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Operations Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Operations Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operations Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 344 419
Rank change year-on-year +45 +75 +55
Contract jobs citing Operations Management 41 48 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.23% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.28% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 15
10th Percentile £250 £364 £455
25th Percentile £500 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £625
90th Percentile - £623 £641
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - £16.81 £56.00
25th Percentile - £18.25 £56.10
Median hourly rate £21.43 £28.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% -50.87% -
75th Percentile - £30.25 £74.38
90th Percentile - £30.63 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £21.43 £28.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year -24.14% -50.87% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

Operations Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Operations Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Management in the UK excluding London

Operations Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Management in the UK excluding London

Operations Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Management in the UK excluding London

Operations Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Management in the UK excluding London

Operations Management
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 Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
East of England +51 20 £550 -8.33% 40
Midlands - 6 £250 - 53
South East +55 5 £450 +21.62% 82
North of England -14 5 £543 -1.36% 57
South West +44 4 - - 31
East Midlands - 4 £250 - 19
North West +9 2 £535 -12.76% 27
Yorkshire -5 2 £550 - 22
West Midlands - 2 - - 29
North East -1 1 £250 - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 6
Operations Management
UK

Operations Management
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:

Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) Cohesity
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.88%) SaaS
4 1 (2.44%) Lucidchart
4 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (48.78%) DNS
1 20 (48.78%) SAN
2 1 (2.44%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.44%) MPLS
2 1 (2.44%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Power BI
1 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
2 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.44%) Electronics
3 1 (2.44%) Front Office
3 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.44%) Marketing
3 1 (2.44%) Military
3 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (14.63%) Administrator
1 6 (14.63%) ServiceNow Administrator
2 4 (9.76%) Analyst
3 2 (4.88%) Business Analyst
3 2 (4.88%) Developer
3 2 (4.88%) DevOps Administrator
3 2 (4.88%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (2.44%) Business Process Analyst
4 1 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (2.44%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (2.44%) Lead
4 1 (2.44%) Network Analyst
4 1 (2.44%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (2.44%) Process Analyst
4 1 (2.44%) Senior
4 1 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 1 (2.44%) Support Specialist
4 1 (2.44%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) Ajax
1 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
1 4 (9.76%) CSS
1 4 (9.76%) HTML
1 4 (9.76%) LDAP
1 4 (9.76%) Web Services
2 2 (4.88%) REST
2 2 (4.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Smartphone
2 3 (7.32%) CMDB
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (53.66%) Windows
2 20 (48.78%) Windows Server
2 20 (48.78%) Windows Server 2016
2 20 (48.78%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (9.76%) Android
4 2 (4.88%) Linux
4 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Build Automation
1 20 (48.78%) Deployment Automation
1 20 (48.78%) SIEM
2 11 (26.83%) ITIL
3 9 (21.95%) Agile
4 6 (14.63%) Customer Service
4 6 (14.63%) ITSM
4 6 (14.63%) Process Improvement
4 6 (14.63%) Scrum
4 6 (14.63%) Service Management
5 5 (12.20%) Change Management
6 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
6 4 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (9.76%) Migration
7 3 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.32%) Service Catalogue
7 3 (7.32%) SIAM
8 2 (4.88%) Budget Management
8 2 (4.88%) Operational Stability
8 2 (4.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (53.66%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.88%) Perl
3 2 (4.88%) Python
3 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (68.29%) Security Cleared
2 23 (56.10%) DV Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
4 5 (12.20%) Degree
5 4 (9.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) CCNA
6 1 (2.44%) CCNP
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.44%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.44%) MBA
6 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.44%) PMP
6 1 (2.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (2.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (2.44%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) MiFID
1 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 20 (48.78%) Active Directory
1 20 (48.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 20 (48.78%) Virtual Servers
1 20 (48.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.76%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 20 (48.78%) Ansible
1 20 (48.78%) SCCM
1 20 (48.78%) WSUS
2 4 (9.76%) BMC PATROL
2 4 (9.76%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (4.88%) Grafana
3 2 (4.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (60.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (48.78%) NetApp
2 20 (48.78%) Splunk
2 20 (48.78%) VMware
3 7 (17.07%) ServiceNow
4 4 (9.76%) Apple
4 4 (9.76%) BMC
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.44%) SAP