Operations Management Contracts

Operations Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Operations Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operations Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 584 750
Rank change year-on-year +59 +166 -112
Contract jobs citing Operations Management 60 109 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 85 75
10th Percentile £355 £427 £403
25th Percentile £475 £538 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £540
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +20.37% +13.68%
75th Percentile £600 £745 £624
90th Percentile £650 £758 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £622 £563
% change year-on-year -11.58% +10.58% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £16.81 £59.35 -
25th Percentile £18.25 £64.46 -
Median hourly rate £28.25 £73.44 -
Median % change year-on-year -61.53% - -
75th Percentile £30.25 £81.96 -
90th Percentile £30.63 £86.78 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £73.44 -
% change year-on-year -61.53% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Operations Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Operations Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Operations Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Management in the UK

Operations Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Management in the UK

Operations Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Management in the UK

Operations Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Management.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Management in the UK

Operations Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Operations Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Operations Management in the UK

Operations Management
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Management within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +51 55 £550 -15.38% 67
UK excluding London +86 48 £550 -11.58% 44
North of England +53 32 £550 +8.37% 10
Work from Home +104 31 £550 -21.43% 18
Yorkshire +50 27 £550 -21.43% 3
South East +14 8 £370 -38.33% 16
London +22 7 £389 -44.49% 25
South West +16 4 - - 4
North West +25 3 £613 +94.68% 6
East of England +1 3 £600 -14.29% 7
North East - 2 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £420 - 2

Operations Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.67%) Confluence
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) SAP EWM
1 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.33%) Azure
2 4 (6.67%) SaaS
3 3 (5.00%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) IaaS
3 3 (5.00%) PaaS
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
1 3 (5.00%) SNMP
2 2 (3.33%) LAN
2 2 (3.33%) SAN
2 2 (3.33%) Softphone
2 2 (3.33%) VoIP
2 2 (3.33%) WAN
2 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.33%) Wireless
2 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.67%) DHCP
3 1 (1.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) NonStop SQL
1 3 (5.00%) Tableau
2 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Finance
3 5 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.33%) Banking
5 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.67%) Legal
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Developer
1 16 (26.67%) ServiceNow Developer
2 9 (15.00%) Consultant
2 9 (15.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 6 (10.00%) Analyst
3 6 (10.00%) Desktop Support
3 6 (10.00%) Lead
3 6 (10.00%) Senior
4 5 (8.33%) Deskside Support
4 5 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.67%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (5.00%) ITSM Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Online Project Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Operations Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Technology Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (38.33%) Web Services
2 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.67%) CMDB
2 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.67%) Life Science
2 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
2 3 (5.00%) Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (46.67%) Customer Service
2 26 (43.33%) Service Delivery
2 26 (43.33%) Service Management
3 25 (41.67%) Asset Management
3 25 (41.67%) ITSM
4 23 (38.33%) IT Asset Management
5 22 (36.67%) ITIL
6 15 (25.00%) API Development
7 9 (15.00%) Agile
8 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (10.00%) Performance Management
9 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.33%) CRM
10 5 (8.33%) GAP Analysis
10 5 (8.33%) Scrum
11 4 (6.67%) Requirements Workshops
11 4 (6.67%) SIEM
11 4 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.67%) Degree
3 1 (1.67%) PgMP
3 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.67%) PMP
3 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 1 (1.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) SLA
2 2 (3.33%) PMO
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) ZABBIX
2 3 (5.00%) Nagios
2 3 (5.00%) OpenView
3 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.67%) SCCM
3 1 (1.67%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 35 (58.33%) ServiceNow
2 4 (6.67%) SolarWinds
3 3 (5.00%) Cisco
3 3 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (5.00%) Google
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.33%) AlienVault
4 2 (3.33%) Ariba
4 2 (3.33%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (3.33%) Dell
4 2 (3.33%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Brocade
5 1 (1.67%) Cadence
5 1 (1.67%) Citrix
5 1 (1.67%) Dell Compellent
5 1 (1.67%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Veeam
5 1 (1.67%) VMware