Tech Ops Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 425 499
Rank change year-on-year +44 +74 -52
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 9 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.035% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.039% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
10th Percentile £164 £372 £242
25th Percentile £226 £385 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £395 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% -1.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £475 £423 £580
90th Percentile £622 - £598
UK median daily rate £350 £460 £482
% change year-on-year -23.91% -4.60% -8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £10.78
25th Percentile - - £10.83
Median hourly rate - - £11.80
75th Percentile - - £12.93
90th Percentile - - £13.06
UK median hourly rate - - £11.80
% change year-on-year - - -18.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,503 20,300 27,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.16% 89.14% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,332 13,919 19,210
10th Percentile £250 £260 £241
25th Percentile £375 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £581
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,157 1,243 1,356
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.11 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.73 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.90 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.67% +39.80% +10.64%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Tech Ops in the UK excluding London

Tech Ops
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 Tech Ops within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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 West +10 3 £581 +40.06% 6
South East +19 2 £168 -59.64% 14
Midlands +14 2 £450 - 3
West Midlands +7 2 £450 -
East of England +4 1 - - 9
Scotland - 1 - - 3
Tech Ops
UK

Tech Ops
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) IT Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) IT Support
1 2 (22.22%) IT Support Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Unix Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Agile
1 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL
1 2 (22.22%) Project Management
1 2 (22.22%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Strategy
2 1 (11.11%) Economics
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) VMware