Operations Consultant Contracts in England

Operations Consultant
UK > England

The median Operations Consultant daily rate in England is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 547 709
Rank change year-on-year +65 +162 +48
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Consultant 9 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.034% 0.011% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.011% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £630 £576
25th Percentile £500 £638 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £675 £593
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +13.92% +12.86%
75th Percentile £597 £713 £615
90th Percentile £614 £720 £621
UK median daily rate £500 £675 £585
% change year-on-year -25.93% +15.38% +6.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 24,668 35,341 54,682
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 93.01% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,219 23,866 38,536
10th Percentile £300 £273 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £660
90th Percentile £750 £745 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 736 2,011 1,520
10th Percentile £15.91 £13.29 £13.49
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.24 £17.72
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% +66.27%
75th Percentile £64.50 £62.48 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.96% +4.29% +62.79%

Operations Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Consultant in England

Operations Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Consultant in England

Operations Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Consultant in England

Operations Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 31 January 2025. 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
London +53 3 £500 -25.93% 2
Yorkshire - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - -
South East +51 2 £588 -
South West - 1 - -
Operations Consultant
UK

Operations Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 31 January 2025, Operations Consultant 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 across the England region featuring Operations Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Confluence
2 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) VSAN
3 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Fault Management
4 1 (11.11%) Billing
4 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (11.11%) Clustering
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Windows

Operations Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) VSAN
2 1 (11.11%) BGP
2 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
2 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 1 (11.11%) MPLS
2 1 (11.11%) OSPF
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) SDH
2 1 (11.11%) VoIP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) CSOC
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Change Management
1 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (11.11%) Data Enrichment
2 1 (11.11%) Fault Management
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
2 1 (11.11%) Server Management
2 1 (11.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 1 (11.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) EMC
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk