Operations Manager Jobs in the Midlands

Operations Manager
England > Midlands

The median Operations Manager salary in the Midlands is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 284 321
Rank change year-on-year -18 +37 -44
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Manager 35 29 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.25% 0.34% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.38% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 23
10th Percentile £43,575 £50,281 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,063 £62,125 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% +6.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £74,063 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,250 £81,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,504 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.06% +3.57% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 13,136 7,600 10,922
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 89.52% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9,366 4,493 7,086
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,834 £37,500 £37,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Operations Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Manager in the Midlands

Operations Manager
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operations Manager in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Operations Manager in the Midlands

Operations Manager
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operations Manager in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Operations Manager in the Midlands

Operations Manager
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Manager within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Midlands -15 24 £53,500 -22.46% 3
East Midlands -28 11 £70,000 -1.41% 3
Operations Manager
England

Operations Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 11 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 Midlands region featuring Operations Manager in the job title.

1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 12 (34.29%) Service Delivery
3 11 (31.43%) Change Management
3 11 (31.43%) Management Information System
3 11 (31.43%) Retail
4 10 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 7 (20.00%) Service Delivery Management
5 7 (20.00%) Supplier Management
5 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 7 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (17.14%) SLA
6 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
7 5 (14.29%) NHS
7 5 (14.29%) Service Management
7 5 (14.29%) Quality Management
7 5 (14.29%) Project Management
7 5 (14.29%) ITIL
7 5 (14.29%) Information Security
7 5 (14.29%) Tech Ops
7 5 (14.29%) GDPR
7 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (14.29%) Budgeting
7 5 (14.29%) Cost Control
7 5 (14.29%) Environmental Health
7 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (11.43%) Major Incident Management
8 4 (11.43%) Customer-Centricity
8 4 (11.43%) Onboarding

Operations Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Azure
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.86%) WAN
General
1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Retail
3 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Environmental Health
4 5 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Management Information System
2 5 (14.29%) NHS
3 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Service Delivery
2 11 (31.43%) Change Management
3 10 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 7 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 7 (20.00%) Service Delivery Management
4 7 (20.00%) Supplier Management
5 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) Budgeting
6 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (14.29%) Cost Control
6 5 (14.29%) Information Security
6 5 (14.29%) ITIL
6 5 (14.29%) Project Management
6 5 (14.29%) Quality Management
6 5 (14.29%) Service Management
6 5 (14.29%) Tech Ops
7 4 (11.43%) Client Onboarding
7 4 (11.43%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (11.43%) ITSM
7 4 (11.43%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) SLA
2 5 (14.29%) GDPR
2 5 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Adobe
2 2 (5.71%) VMware
2 2 (5.71%) Xero