Operations Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Operations Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 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 577 615 577
Rank change year-on-year +38 -38 -4
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Manager 203 113 316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.20% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.23% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 146 83 121
10th Percentile £40,875 £47,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,730 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.29% +6.15% +18.18%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £73,125 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £71,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.13% +1.43% +21.74%

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%

Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Operations Manager in the UK excluding London

Operations Manager
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 Operations Manager 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 +11 45 £52,500 -27.59% 18
South East -1 44 £57,500 -20.69% 16
Midlands -31 35 £55,000 -20.86% 5
East of England +14 29 £55,000 +10.00% 12
South West -22 25 £57,500 +15.00% 5
West Midlands -12 24 £53,500 -22.46% 3
North West -7 21 £63,750 +6.41% 9
Scotland -55 19 £57,500 +4.55% 3
Yorkshire +46 18 £50,000 -31.03% 8
East Midlands -21 11 £70,000 -1.41% 2
North East -13 6 £35,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 4 - -
Wales +13 2 £58,750 -21.67%
Operations Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Operations Manager 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 Operations Manager in the job title.

1 43 (21.18%) Service Delivery
2 35 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 35 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.26%) Project Management
3 33 (16.26%) Finance
4 27 (13.30%) ITIL
5 26 (12.81%) Cybersecurity
5 26 (12.81%) Customer Service
6 25 (12.32%) Azure
7 22 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (9.85%) People Management
9 19 (9.36%) Management Information System
9 19 (9.36%) Onboarding
10 18 (8.87%) Tech Ops
10 18 (8.87%) Change Management
10 18 (8.87%) Service Management
10 18 (8.87%) Data Centre
11 17 (8.37%) Retail
12 16 (7.88%) ITSM
12 16 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (7.39%) Degree
13 15 (7.39%) Cisco
14 13 (6.40%) Project Delivery
14 13 (6.40%) Security Operations
14 13 (6.40%) GDPR
15 12 (5.91%) Logistics
15 12 (5.91%) SLA
16 11 (5.42%) Windows
16 11 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel

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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.99%) Confluence
2 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) MTS
Applications
1 11 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.48%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (1.48%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.32%) Azure
2 16 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (5.42%) AWS
4 5 (2.46%) GCP
4 5 (2.46%) Google Workspace
5 4 (1.97%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.99%) IaaS
6 2 (0.99%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.49%) SaaS
7 1 (0.49%) SAP Fieldglass
7 1 (0.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.42%) Network Security
2 10 (4.93%) Firewall
2 10 (4.93%) VoIP
3 8 (3.94%) SD-WAN
3 8 (3.94%) VPN
3 8 (3.94%) WAN
4 7 (3.45%) LAN
4 7 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (2.46%) BIG-IP
5 5 (2.46%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (2.46%) Wireless
6 4 (1.97%) HTTP
6 4 (1.97%) MQTT
7 3 (1.48%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.49%) Broadband
8 1 (0.49%) Internet
8 1 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (0.49%) Big Data
1 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 35 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.26%) Finance
3 17 (8.37%) Retail
4 11 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.93%) Law
6 9 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.94%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.45%) Legal
8 7 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.46%) Environmental Health
10 4 (1.97%) Marketing
11 3 (1.48%) Back Office
11 3 (1.48%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.99%) Automotive
12 2 (0.99%) Banking
12 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.99%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.49%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.46%) HTML
2 4 (1.97%) CSS
2 4 (1.97%) Node.js
3 1 (0.49%) EDI
3 1 (0.49%) Express.js
3 1 (0.49%) Flash
3 1 (0.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.36%) Management Information System
1 19 (9.36%) Onboarding
2 18 (8.87%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.94%) NHS
3 8 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.46%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.97%) Cyber Security Posture
7 3 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.99%) BYOD
8 2 (0.99%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.99%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.99%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.99%) PMI
8 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.49%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.49%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.42%) Windows
2 4 (1.97%) Linux
2 4 (1.97%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.99%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (21.18%) Service Delivery
2 33 (16.26%) Project Management
3 27 (13.30%) ITIL
4 26 (12.81%) Customer Service
4 26 (12.81%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (9.85%) People Management
7 18 (8.87%) Change Management
7 18 (8.87%) Service Management
7 18 (8.87%) Tech Ops
8 16 (7.88%) ITSM
8 16 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (6.40%) Project Delivery
9 13 (6.40%) Security Operations
10 12 (5.91%) Logistics
11 11 (5.42%) Data Centre Operations
12 10 (4.93%) Incident Management
12 10 (4.93%) Information Security
12 10 (4.93%) Strategic Planning
12 10 (4.93%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.46%) SQL
2 4 (1.97%) Java
2 4 (1.97%) Python
3 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (7.39%) Degree
2 5 (2.46%) DBS Check
3 4 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.48%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.99%) MBA
5 2 (0.99%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.99%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) AAT
6 1 (0.49%) CASP
6 1 (0.49%) CISSP
6 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.49%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.49%) GCIA
6 1 (0.49%) GCIH
6 1 (0.49%) GIAC
6 1 (0.49%) HNC
6 1 (0.49%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.40%) GDPR
2 12 (5.91%) SLA
3 11 (5.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.96%) ISO 9001
5 5 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.48%) NEBOSH
7 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.99%) QA
7 2 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.49%) NCSC
8 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (4.93%) Hyper-V
2 7 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.97%) Firmware
4 3 (1.48%) Terminal Services
5 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (3.45%) Terraform
1 7 (3.45%) WSUS
2 5 (2.46%) SCOM
3 2 (0.99%) Ansible
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.49%) QRadar
4 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.39%) Cisco
3 7 (3.45%) Google
4 5 (2.46%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.46%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.46%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.97%) SAP
6 3 (1.48%) QAD
6 3 (1.48%) Reuters
6 3 (1.48%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.48%) Xero
7 2 (0.99%) Adobe
7 2 (0.99%) Citrix
7 2 (0.99%) VMware
8 1 (0.49%) Ericsson
8 1 (0.49%) Facebook
8 1 (0.49%) Nokia
8 1 (0.49%) Sage
8 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.49%) Splunk