Head of Operations Contracts

Head of Operations
UK

The median Head of Operations daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 685 829
Rank change year-on-year +116 +144 -171
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Operations 10 15 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.025% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.026% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 21
10th Percentile £435 £663 £563
25th Percentile £456 £681 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £690
Median % change year-on-year - +1.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £738 £863 £900
90th Percentile £850 £950 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £700 £638
% change year-on-year +7.14% +9.80% +15.91%

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Head of Operations
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Operations in the UK

Head of Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Head of Operations in the UK

Head of Operations
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Operations over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Operations in the UK

Head of Operations
Top 7 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 Operations within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +110 10 £700 -1.75% 37
Work from Home +121 5 £500 -28.57% 12
London +109 5 £700 -12.50% 12
UK excluding London +67 5 £750 +7.14% 24
South East +28 4 £1,000 +56.25% 6
West Midlands +31 1 £500 -31.03% 1
Midlands +28 1 £500 -31.03% 2

Head of Operations Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Head of 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 Operations in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 3 (30.00%) Nessus
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
3 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (20.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (20.00%) Splunk
4 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (20.00%) Line Management
4 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (20.00%) XenApp
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) LAN
4 2 (20.00%) WAN

Head of 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Local Government
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security
2 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (20.00%) Line Management
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
5 1 (10.00%) Service Management
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CISM
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (20.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (30.00%) Nessus
3 2 (20.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (10.00%) CASB
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow