Head of Operations Contracts

Head of Operations
UK

The median Head of Operations daily rate in the UK is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate 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 572 681 819
Rank change year-on-year +109 +138 -98
Contract jobs requiring a Head of Operations 12 16 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.029% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.030% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 22
10th Percentile £439 £663 £629
25th Percentile £459 £700 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £731 £900 £881
90th Percentile £825 £945 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £750 £713 £650
% change year-on-year +5.26% +9.62% +48.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

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

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Head of Operations
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Head of Operations in the UK

Head of Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Head of Operations in the UK

Head of Operations
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Head of Operations over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Head of Operations in the UK

Head of Operations
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Head of Operations within the UK 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +82 11 £615 -19.34% 20
Work from Home +117 6 £500 -28.57% 7
London +81 6 £615 -24.31% 8
UK excluding London +26 5 £750 +5.26% 11
South East +18 4 £1,000 +56.25% 1
West Midlands +18 1 £500 -31.03% 1
Midlands +17 1 £500 -31.03% 2

Head of Operations Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Head of Operations contract 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 contract job ads featuring Head of Operations in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (41.67%) PCI DSS
2 5 (41.67%) Information Security
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) SIEM
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 4 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
4 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (25.00%) Nessus
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Firewall
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Windows
5 2 (16.67%) LAN
5 2 (16.67%) WAN
5 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 2 (16.67%) Cisco
5 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 2 (16.67%) Citrix
5 2 (16.67%) CISSP
5 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management

Head of Operations Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 5 (41.67%) Information Security
2 5 (41.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 4 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 4 (33.33%) SIEM
4 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (16.67%) Line Management
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) Supplier Relationship Management
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CISM
1 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) CEH
2 1 (8.33%) CISA
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) GCIA
2 1 (8.33%) GCIH
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (25.00%) Nessus
3 2 (16.67%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (8.33%) CASB
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow