Tech Ops Contracts

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Tech Ops skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Tech Ops over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 656 793
Rank change year-on-year +89 +137 -118
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 19 37 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.064% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.071% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 43
10th Percentile £164 £363 £263
25th Percentile £225 £396 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -8.65% +7.22%
75th Percentile £475 £681 £579
90th Percentile £571 £745 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £523 £415
% change year-on-year -18.66% +25.90% -28.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £10.78
25th Percentile - - £10.83
Median hourly rate - - £11.80
75th Percentile - - £12.93
90th Percentile - - £13.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £11.80
% change year-on-year - - -18.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Tech Ops 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 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 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 2,437 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 £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops.

Daily rate trend for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops.

Hourly rate trend for Tech Ops in the UK

Tech Ops
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tech Ops within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +79 16 £425 -10.05% 75
UK excluding London +69 10 £425 -18.66% 53
Work from Home +110 7 £425 -12.82% 27
London +91 6 £275 -41.80% 28
South West +19 3 £581 -21.19% 4
Midlands +29 2 £450 - 9
West Midlands +25 2 £450 - 3
South East +11 2 £168 - 15
East of England +3 2 £550 +41.03% 10
Scotland - 1 - - 3

Tech Ops
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 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Contentful
1 1 (5.26%) GCP
1 1 (5.26%) Google Analytics
1 1 (5.26%) IaaS
1 1 (5.26%) PaaS
1 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) SSH
1 4 (21.05%) Telnet
2 2 (10.53%) VoIP
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) VisualWorks
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Data Centre Technician
1 4 (21.05%) Data Technician
2 3 (15.79%) Support Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Manager
3 2 (10.53%) IT Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) CMS Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Head of Infrastructure
4 1 (5.26%) Head of Infrastructure Architecture
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.26%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Operations Manager
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 6 (31.58%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.26%) AIX
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Solaris
4 1 (5.26%) Unix
4 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) ITIL
2 4 (21.05%) Process Improvement
2 4 (21.05%) Workflow
3 3 (15.79%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Analytics
3 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
4 2 (10.53%) Change Management
4 2 (10.53%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Project Management
4 2 (10.53%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.26%) Coaching
5 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) CCNA
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Juniper
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) VMware