Tech Ops Contracts with Work from Home Options

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 449 595
Rank change year-on-year +113 +146 -104
Contract jobs citing Tech Ops 5 15 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.034% 0.063% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.070% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 14
10th Percentile £418 £386 £292
25th Percentile £425 £404 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £511
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -18.80% +7.60%
75th Percentile £475 £518 £594
90th Percentile £483 £570 £626
UK median daily rate £350 £460 £482
% change year-on-year -23.91% -4.60% -8.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,767 21,391 40,184
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.48% 89.69% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,586 15,185 29,262
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 496 520
10th Percentile £14.88 £18.00 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £74.50 £78.00 £70.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%

Tech Ops
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Tech Ops trend for jobs with a WFH option

Tech Ops
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Tech Ops.

Tech Ops daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Tech Ops
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Contentful
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) VisualWorks
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) CMS Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Security Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Content Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Economics
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) OOP
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Juniper
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow