IT Operations Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Operations Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 421 516
Rank change year-on-year +33 +95 -77
Contract jobs requiring an IT Operations Manager 12 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.075% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.079% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 4
10th Percentile - £307 £433
25th Percentile £375 £386 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -18.10% +75.00%
75th Percentile £450 £440 £638
90th Percentile £465 £674 £705
UK median daily rate £400 £440 £585
% change year-on-year -9.09% -24.79% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.20
UK median hourly rate £30.12 - £35.20
% change year-on-year - - +21.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

IT Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Operations Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Operations Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Operations Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East - 8 - - 4
South West - 3 £400 - 1
Wales +17 1 £450 +41.73%
IT Operations Manager
UK

IT Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, IT 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring IT Operations Manager in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (58.33%) QA
3 5 (41.67%) Splunk
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Management
3 5 (41.67%) Retail
3 5 (41.67%) Quality Management
3 5 (41.67%) ITIL
3 5 (41.67%) Balanced Scorecard
3 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
3 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) Dynatrace
3 5 (41.67%) Scorecard
3 5 (41.67%) Customer Experience
4 3 (25.00%) Self-Awareness
5 2 (16.67%) Health Technology
5 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) People Management
5 2 (16.67%) Contract Management
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (16.67%) CRM
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 1 (8.33%) Azure
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Line Management

IT Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (8.33%) SaaS
1 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Retail
2 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (16.67%) Health Technology
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Balanced Scorecard
1 5 (41.67%) Customer Experience
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
1 5 (41.67%) Performance Management
1 5 (41.67%) Quality Management
1 5 (41.67%) Scorecard
2 3 (25.00%) Self-Awareness
3 2 (16.67%) Contract Management
3 2 (16.67%) CRM
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (16.67%) People Management
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Line Management
4 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Management
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Dynatrace
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk