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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 421 486
Rank change year-on-year +29 +65 -61
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 9 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.042% 0.040% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.045% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 10
10th Percentile £164 £319 £242
25th Percentile £226 £368 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £393 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% -1.88% -23.81%
75th Percentile £475 £416 £580
90th Percentile £622 £423 £598
UK median daily rate £350 £460 £482
% change year-on-year -23.91% -4.60% -8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £10.78
25th Percentile - - £10.83
Median hourly rate - - £11.80
75th Percentile - - £12.93
90th Percentile - - £13.06
UK median hourly rate - - £11.80
% change year-on-year - - -18.62%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 2024. 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 West +4 3 £581 +40.06% 5
West Midlands +16 2 £450 +50.00%
South East +16 2 £168 -59.64% 11
Midlands +15 2 £450 +50.00%
East of England +3 1 - - 5
Scotland - 1 - - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) IT Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) IT Support
1 2 (22.22%) IT Support Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Agile
1 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL
1 2 (22.22%) Project Management
1 2 (22.22%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (11.11%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (11.11%) Economics
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) VMware