Operations Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Operations Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, 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 312 377 426
Rank change year-on-year +65 +49 +42
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 24 22 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 25
10th Percentile £380 £375 £410
25th Percentile £425 £388 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -22.92% -
75th Percentile £506 £475 £651
90th Percentile £530 £513 £775
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £600
% change year-on-year -2.56% -18.75% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -27.78% +155.68%
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £48.56 £90.00
% change year-on-year -12.48% -46.04% +155.68%

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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
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 Manager 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 +52 14 £525 - 93
North of England +21 4 £450 -5.26% 84
Midlands - 3 £475 - 66
North West - 3 £450 - 41
West Midlands - 3 £475 - 38
Scotland - 2 £475 - 16
South West +37 1 £325 -18.75% 44
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 32
Operations Manager
UK

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

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

1 15 (62.50%) Telecoms
1 15 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (50.00%) Retail
3 10 (41.67%) Splunk
4 7 (29.17%) Data Analysis
4 7 (29.17%) Finance
4 7 (29.17%) Actionable Insight
4 7 (29.17%) Dynatrace
4 7 (29.17%) DataOps
5 5 (20.83%) Billing
5 5 (20.83%) Balanced Scorecard
5 5 (20.83%) Quality Management
5 5 (20.83%) Customer Experience
5 5 (20.83%) Scorecard
6 4 (16.67%) Change Management
7 3 (12.50%) Project Management
7 3 (12.50%) ITIL
7 3 (12.50%) QA
7 3 (12.50%) Performance Management
7 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) Analytics
8 2 (8.33%) Data Analytics
8 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
8 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (8.33%) Self-Awareness
8 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.33%) Onboarding

Operations Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) Google Analytics
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 15 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 12 (50.00%) Retail
3 7 (29.17%) Finance
4 5 (20.83%) Billing
5 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Actionable Insight
1 7 (29.17%) Data Analysis
1 7 (29.17%) DataOps
2 5 (20.83%) Balanced Scorecard
2 5 (20.83%) Customer Experience
2 5 (20.83%) Quality Management
2 5 (20.83%) Scorecard
3 4 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (12.50%) Analytics
4 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (12.50%) ITIL
4 3 (12.50%) Performance Management
4 3 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (8.33%) Capacity Management
5 2 (8.33%) Data Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.33%) Self-Awareness
5 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Splunk
2 7 (29.17%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe
4 1 (4.17%) Google