Tech Ops Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 440 603
Rank change year-on-year +101 +163 -116
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 6 17 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.069% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.077% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 13
10th Percentile £418 £378 £282
25th Percentile £425 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £482
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.10% +1.51%
75th Percentile £475 £570 £594
90th Percentile £483 £594 £599
UK median daily rate £350 £470 £482
% change year-on-year -25.53% -2.53% -2.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,922 21,983 40,479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 15,568 29,399
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 508 539
10th Percentile £14.74 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Tech Ops
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Tech Ops trend for jobs with a WFH option

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Contentful
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
1 1 (16.67%) PaaS
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) VisualWorks
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) CMS Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Infrastructure Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Security Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
1 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
1 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Stability
2 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Scorecard
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
2 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow