Head of IT Operations Contracts

Head of Information Technology Operations
UK

The median Head of Information Technology Operations daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 710 863
Rank change year-on-year +135 +153 -
Contract jobs requiring a Head of IT Operations 3 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.010% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.011% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile - £644 £615
25th Percentile £675 £680 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £713 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +9.62% -
75th Percentile £863 £784 £806
90th Percentile £945 £869 £885
UK excluding London median daily rate £1,000 £700 £788
% change year-on-year +42.86% -11.11% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Head of IT Operations
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Head of IT Operations in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Head of IT Operations in the UK

Head of IT Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Head of IT Operations.

Daily rate trend for Head of IT Operations in the UK

Head of IT Operations
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of IT Operations over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of IT Operations in the UK

Head of IT Operations
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Head of IT Operations within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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
England +105 3 £700 -1.75% 3
London +113 2 £700 -22.22%
UK excluding London +55 1 £1,000 +42.86% 3
South East +21 1 £1,000 +56.25%

Head of IT Operations Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Head of IT Operations 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 featuring Head of IT Operations in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD

Head of IT Operations Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow