Head of Operations Jobs in the UK excluding London

Head of Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Head of Operations salary in the UK excluding London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary 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 732 688 767
Rank change year-on-year -44 +79 -99
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Operations 48 40 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.072% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.082% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24 27 44
10th Percentile £33,250 £64,485 £52,575
25th Percentile £56,250 £78,125 £67,793
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £95,000 £84,290
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +12.71% +2.17%
75th Percentile £97,500 £103,125 £89,000
90th Percentile £101,750 £122,500 £97,125
UK median annual salary £90,000 £96,500 £84,641
% change year-on-year -6.74% +14.01% -0.42%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Head of Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Operations in the UK excluding London

Head of Operations
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Head of Operations in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Head of Operations in the UK excluding London

Head of Operations
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Head of Operations in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Head of Operations in the UK excluding London

Head of Operations
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Operations within the UK excluding London 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +15 18 £70,000 -26.32% 5
South East -27 14 £86,000 -9.47% 1
Midlands -31 11 £86,000 +4.24% 2
North West -19 10 £70,000 -26.32% 3
West Midlands -6 9 £86,000 +4.24% 1
Yorkshire +66 8 £87,500 -10.26% 1
South West -38 3 £57,500 -42.50%
Scotland -69 3 £95,000 -13.64% 1
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
East of England -10 1 £100,000 +29.03% 2
North East - 1 £87,500 - 1
Head of Operations
UK

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

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

1 26 (54.17%) Finance
2 21 (43.75%) Service Delivery
3 14 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (27.08%) Coaching
4 13 (27.08%) PMI Certification
5 11 (22.92%) ITIL
5 11 (22.92%) VMware
5 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
6 10 (20.83%) Risk Management
6 10 (20.83%) Firewall
6 10 (20.83%) Service Management
7 9 (18.75%) ITSM
7 9 (18.75%) SQL
7 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
8 8 (16.67%) Active Directory
8 8 (16.67%) WAN
8 8 (16.67%) LAN
8 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (16.67%) People Management
8 8 (16.67%) Azure
9 7 (14.58%) Retail
9 7 (14.58%) WLAN
9 7 (14.58%) VPN
9 7 (14.58%) SLA
9 7 (14.58%) PMI
9 7 (14.58%) Customer Experience
9 7 (14.58%) Product Ownership
10 6 (12.50%) PMP
10 6 (12.50%) CISSP
10 6 (12.50%) SharePoint

Head of Operations 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) AWS
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) Firewall
2 8 (16.67%) LAN
2 8 (16.67%) WAN
3 7 (14.58%) VPN
3 7 (14.58%) WLAN
4 4 (8.33%) Broadband
5 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.08%) Wireless
General
1 26 (54.17%) Finance
2 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Retail
4 6 (12.50%) Marketing
5 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
6 4 (8.33%) Banking
6 4 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (6.25%) Electronics
7 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.17%) Law
8 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (4.17%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Middleware
1 2 (4.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) PMI
1 7 (14.58%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.42%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.25%) FMCG
3 3 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.17%) IoT
4 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Service Delivery
2 14 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (27.08%) Coaching
4 11 (22.92%) ITIL
5 10 (20.83%) Risk Management
5 10 (20.83%) Service Management
6 9 (18.75%) ITSM
7 8 (16.67%) People Management
7 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (14.58%) Customer Experience
9 6 (12.50%) Asset Management
9 6 (12.50%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 6 (12.50%) Data Protection
9 6 (12.50%) Operations Management
10 5 (10.42%) Contract Negotiation
10 5 (10.42%) CRM
10 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
10 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (10.42%) Project Management
11 4 (8.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) PMI Certification
2 6 (12.50%) CISSP
2 6 (12.50%) PMP
3 1 (2.08%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) SLA
2 5 (10.42%) GDPR
3 3 (6.25%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) NIST
4 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.08%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (2.08%) Nessus
1 1 (2.08%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) VMware
2 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.33%) BT
3 4 (8.33%) Citrix
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (2.08%) Aruba
5 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.08%) Juniper
5 1 (2.08%) Ruckus Wireless
5 1 (2.08%) Snow
5 1 (2.08%) Splunk