Operations Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Operations Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Operations Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 329 434
Rank change year-on-year +43 +105 +144
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Manager 18 16 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 19
10th Percentile £333 £375 £329
25th Percentile £460 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +30.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £644 £800 £620
90th Percentile £790 - £766
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £600
% change year-on-year -2.56% -18.75% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -69.44% -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £48.56 £90.00
% change year-on-year -12.48% -46.04% +155.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Operations Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Operations Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Operations Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Operations Manager.

Operations Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Operations Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Operations Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Manager
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Operations Manager.

Operations Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Operations Manager 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Operations Manager in the job title.

1 9 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (38.89%) Retail
3 7 (38.89%) Finance
4 6 (33.33%) Data Analysis
5 5 (27.78%) Splunk
5 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (27.78%) SLA
5 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
5 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
5 5 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (27.78%) DataOps
6 4 (22.22%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (22.22%) NIST
6 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
6 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (22.22%) CISSP
6 4 (22.22%) ITIL
6 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (22.22%) Network Security
6 4 (22.22%) Azure
6 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (16.67%) SIEM
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
8 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience

Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.56%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (38.89%) Finance
3 7 (38.89%) Retail
4 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Billing
5 2 (11.11%) French Language
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 5 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (27.78%) DataOps
2 5 (27.78%) Security Operations
3 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
3 4 (22.22%) ITIL
3 4 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
3 4 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 4 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 3 (16.67%) SIEM
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 2 (11.11%) Due Diligence
5 2 (11.11%) Self-Awareness
5 2 (11.11%) SOAR
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CISSP
2 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (11.11%) CCSP
2 2 (11.11%) CEH
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) GCIH
2 2 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) SLA
2 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (22.22%) NIST
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
1 5 (27.78%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow