Operations Director Contracts

Director of Operations
UK

The median Director of Operations daily rate in the UK is £960 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 712 846
Rank change year-on-year +123 +134 -156
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Director 2 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.010% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.011% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £928 £788 £586
25th Percentile £940 £798 £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £960 £856 £725
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +18.10% +11.54%
75th Percentile £980 £923 £931
90th Percentile £992 £939 £1,085
UK excluding London median daily rate - £856 £750
% change year-on-year - +14.17% +36.36%

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Operations Director
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Director in the UK

Operations Director
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Director in the UK

Operations Director
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Director within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +108 2 £960 - 15
London +101 2 £960 - 9

Operations Director Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Operations Director 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 Operations Director in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership

Operations Director 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 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Major Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management