Web Operations Contracts

Web Operations (WebOps)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Web Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Operations over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 681 810
Rank change year-on-year +119 +129 -105
Contract jobs citing Web Operations 5 13 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.023% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.026% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 35
10th Percentile £323 £375 £475
25th Percentile £413 £400 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £543
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.60% +11.28%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £700
90th Percentile - £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate - £700 £525
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -5.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Web Operations 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,764 50,288 79,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.53% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,622 34,810 55,795
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,524 1,667 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Web Operations
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Web Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Web Operations in the UK

Web Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Operations.

Daily rate trend for Web Operations in the UK

Web Operations
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Operations over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Operations in the UK

Web Operations
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Operations within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +119 4 £525 - 1
England +89 3 £475 -20.83% 4
London +84 3 £475 +5.56% 3

Web Operations
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (20.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (20.00%) Contentful
3 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) WebOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Web Manager
2 1 (20.00%) WebOps Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Go
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) PHP
1 3 (60.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow