Tech Ops Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Tech Ops skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tech Ops 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 332 383 435
Rank change year-on-year +51 +52 +52
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 8 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.043% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.052% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £335 £164 £372
25th Percentile £388 £226 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £395
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +7.59% -1.25%
75th Percentile £478 £475 £423
90th Percentile £548 £622 -
UK median daily rate £425 £350 £460
% change year-on-year +21.43% -23.91% -4.60%

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 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%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

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 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend 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 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
North East - 3 £450 - 2
North of England - 3 £450 - 23
East of England +34 2 £375 - 21
Midlands +17 2 £375 -16.67% 27
East Midlands - 2 £375 - 16
Scotland +6 1 £675 - 6
Tech Ops
UK

Tech Ops
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Compliance Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Governance Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Application Packaging
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Business Development
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) GMP
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
1 1 (12.50%) GxP
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Apple
1 3 (37.50%) Samsung
157 Tech Ops jobs Nationwide