Tech Ops Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Tech Ops skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tech Ops over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 339 460
Rank change year-on-year +36 +121 +150
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 1 6 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.039% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.045% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £253 £378
25th Percentile - £313 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -12.82% -4.62%
75th Percentile - £463 £570
90th Percentile - £478 £594
UK median daily rate £450 £325 £535
% change year-on-year +38.46% -39.25% +2.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Tech Ops falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Tech Ops
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Tech Ops trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Tech Ops daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Tech Ops
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Engagement Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Service Improvement Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Programme Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Services Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware