Head of Operations Contracts in England

Head of Operations
UK > England

The median Head of Operations daily rate in England is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 621 763
Rank change year-on-year +82 +142 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Operations 11 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.032% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.034% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 20
10th Percentile £439 £666 £615
25th Percentile £459 £700 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £763 £750
Median % change year-on-year -19.34% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £731 £906 £900
90th Percentile £825 £948 £904
UK median daily rate £615 £725 £750
% change year-on-year -15.17% -3.33% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Head of Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Operations in England

Head of Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Head of Operations in England.

Daily rate trend for Head of Operations in England

Head of Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Operations in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Operations in England

Head of Operations
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Operations within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +81 6 £615 -24.31% 8
South East +18 4 £1,000 +56.25% 1
West Midlands +18 1 £500 -31.03% 1
Midlands +17 1 £500 -31.03% 2
Head of Operations
UK

Head of Operations Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Head of Operations 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 job ads across the England region featuring Head of Operations in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) Security Operations
2 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
2 4 (36.36%) Information Security
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 3 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) Nessus
3 3 (27.27%) SIEM
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (18.18%) Line Management
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 2 (18.18%) Splunk
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (18.18%) XenApp
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
4 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
4 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (18.18%) Citrix
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Windows
4 2 (18.18%) LAN
4 2 (18.18%) WAN

Head of Operations Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) LAN
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 2 (18.18%) WAN
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Local Government
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Security Operations
2 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (36.36%) Information Security
2 4 (36.36%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
3 3 (27.27%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) SIEM
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL
4 2 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (18.18%) Line Management
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Management
5 1 (9.09%) Resource Management
5 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) CISM
1 1 (9.09%) CISSP
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (18.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (27.27%) Nessus
3 2 (18.18%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (9.09%) CASB
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
2 2 (18.18%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow