Operations Manager Jobs in the Midlands

Operations Manager
England > Midlands

The median Operations Manager salary in the Midlands is £53,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 288 315
Rank change year-on-year -8 +27 -37
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Manager 25 37 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% 0.40% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.45% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 17 21 18
10th Percentile £39,300 £50,000 £54,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% - +47.37%
75th Percentile £60,750 £80,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £80,250 - £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% -3.45% +20.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 11,184 8,311 10,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 89.66% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,331 4,658 7,067
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,925 £27,539
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,054
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Manager in the Midlands

Operations Manager
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Manager in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Operations Manager in the Midlands

Operations Manager
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Manager in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Manager in the Midlands

Operations Manager
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Manager within the Midlands region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -3 18 £53,500 -22.46% 7
East Midlands -10 7 £60,000 -15.49% 1
Operations Manager
England

Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Operations Manager 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 permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Operations Manager in the job title.

1 15 (60.00%) Finance
2 11 (44.00%) Change Management
2 11 (44.00%) Management Information System
3 9 (36.00%) Service Delivery
3 9 (36.00%) Incident Management
4 8 (32.00%) Retail
5 7 (28.00%) Supplier Management
5 7 (28.00%) Service Delivery Management
5 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
5 7 (28.00%) Customer Service
6 6 (24.00%) SLA
7 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 5 (20.00%) Service Management
7 5 (20.00%) Quality Management
7 5 (20.00%) NHS
7 5 (20.00%) Project Management
7 5 (20.00%) Information Security
7 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (20.00%) Budgeting
7 5 (20.00%) Cost Control
7 5 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (20.00%) Environmental Health
7 5 (20.00%) GDPR
8 4 (16.00%) Logistics
8 4 (16.00%) ITIL
9 3 (12.00%) ITSM
9 3 (12.00%) Major Incident Management
9 3 (12.00%) Budget Management

Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.00%) WAN
General
1 15 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Retail
3 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Environmental Health
4 5 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (20.00%) NHS
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Change Management
2 9 (36.00%) Incident Management
2 9 (36.00%) Service Delivery
3 7 (28.00%) Customer Service
3 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (28.00%) Service Delivery Management
3 7 (28.00%) Supplier Management
4 5 (20.00%) Budgeting
4 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (20.00%) Cost Control
4 5 (20.00%) Information Security
4 5 (20.00%) Project Management
4 5 (20.00%) Quality Management
4 5 (20.00%) Service Management
5 4 (16.00%) ITIL
5 4 (16.00%) Logistics
6 3 (12.00%) Budget Management
6 3 (12.00%) ITSM
6 3 (12.00%) Major Incident Management
7 2 (8.00%) Market Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) SLA
2 5 (20.00%) GDPR
2 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Adobe
2 2 (8.00%) Xero
3 1 (4.00%) VMware