Tech Ops Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Tech Ops skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 340 386
Rank change year-on-year -36 +46 +85
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 17 17 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.11% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.13% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 10
10th Percentile £148 £202 £198
25th Percentile £347 £220 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £365 £325
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% +12.31% -41.81%
75th Percentile £528 £525 £497
90th Percentile £549 - £593
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £325
% change year-on-year - +53.85% -40.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £18.74 - -
25th Percentile £23.41 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £33.97 - £52.50
75th Percentile £41.94 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +144.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 13,041 17,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.01% 86.97% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,535 7,668 11,224
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 762 1,227
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Tech Ops job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Tech Ops.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Tech Ops.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Tech Ops

Tech Ops
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Tech Ops in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
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 Tech Ops within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England - 7 £295 - 23
Midlands -43 4 £400 -20.00% 13
North West - 4 - - 14
South West -13 3 £425 - 17
Yorkshire - 3 £295 - 7
East Midlands - 3 £400 - 5
South East - 2 - - 20
West Midlands -38 1 £200 -60.00% 8
East of England - 1 £575 - 11
Tech Ops
UK

Tech Ops
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (11.76%) Internet
2 2 (11.76%) LAN
2 2 (11.76%) MPLS
2 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) FTP
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.88%) SMTP
3 1 (5.88%) Telnet
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
1 1 (5.88%) Big Data
1 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Delivery Director
4 3 (17.65%) IT Director
4 3 (17.65%) Security Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Security Operations Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery Director
4 3 (17.65%) Services Director
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Operations Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Operations Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Life Science
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
1 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) ITSM
2 5 (29.41%) Agile
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Escalation Management
4 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
4 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Project Management
4 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
4 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
4 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery Management
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (17.65%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (17.65%) Ticket Management
5 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.76%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CISM
3 2 (11.76%) CISSP
3 2 (11.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.88%) CCIE
4 1 (5.88%) CCNP
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) NFS
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) Meraki
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Forcepoint
3 1 (5.88%) McAfee
3 1 (5.88%) VMware