Technical Operations Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Operations Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Operations Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 - 442
Rank change year-on-year - - +61
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Operations Manager 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% - 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +8.70%

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 12,381 19,636 21,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 92.47% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,743 11,699 14,909
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 2,517 1,118
10th Percentile £13.49 £12.56 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £58.58 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

Technical Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Operations Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Operations Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 West - 2 £450 - 7
South West - 2 £450 -
East of England - 2 - -
North of England - 2 £450 - 8
Technical Operations Manager
UK

Technical Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Technical 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 Technical Operations Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Tech Ops
2 2 (50.00%) Google Sheets
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Business Case
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) Contract Management

Technical 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Google Sheets
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Tech Ops
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Business Case
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft