Operational Technology Contracts in London

Operational Technology (OT)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 416 563
Rank change year-on-year +46 +147 -77
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 30 66 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.51% 0.73% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 48 35
10th Percentile £388 £425 £508
25th Percentile £525 £481 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £623 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% -0.40% +28.21%
75th Percentile £706 £725 £725
90th Percentile £962 £782 £776
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
London

Operational Technology falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,844 9,036 14,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.05% 35.93% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 6,567 10,276
10th Percentile £315 £364 £400
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £813
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 104 201
10th Percentile £15.45 £18.28 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £34.81 £42.02
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% -17.16% +20.47%
75th Percentile £50.38 £60.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.63 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Operational Technology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in London

Operational Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Technology in London.

Daily rate trend for Operational Technology in London

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Technology in London

Operational Technology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operational Technology in London.

Hourly rate trend for Operational Technology in London

Operational Technology
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Technology within the 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London +23 5 £650 -7.14% 1
Central London +29 4 £683 +18.70% 1
Operational Technology
England

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) DNS
1 2 (6.67%) Internet
1 2 (6.67%) SNMP
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) Modbus
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) VLAN
2 1 (3.33%) Wireless
2 1 (3.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Banking
3 4 (13.33%) Financial Institution
3 4 (13.33%) International Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Advertising
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (20.00%) Change Manager
2 6 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Information Officer
5 2 (6.67%) Information Security Officer
5 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Regulatory Change Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Security Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Security Officer
6 1 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Head of Operations
6 1 (3.33%) Head of Security
6 1 (3.33%) Operational Security Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Middleware
1 1 (3.33%) OAuth
1 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) IoT
1 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Industry 4.0
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) SCADA
3 1 (3.33%) BBC
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (26.67%) Information Management
2 8 (26.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 6 (20.00%) Information Security
4 5 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 4 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 4 (13.33%) Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 4 (13.33%) Security Architecture
6 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (6.67%) Agile
7 2 (6.67%) Data Migration
7 2 (6.67%) Data Protection
7 2 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (6.67%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (6.67%) Project Management
7 2 (6.67%) Regulatory Change
7 2 (6.67%) SABSA
7 2 (6.67%) Task Automation
7 2 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) CISM
1 5 (16.67%) CISSP
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (10.00%) CCSK
3 3 (10.00%) CCSP
4 2 (6.67%) CCNP
4 2 (6.67%) CEH
4 2 (6.67%) CISA
5 1 (3.33%) CCA
5 1 (3.33%) CCNA
5 1 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) NIST
2 3 (10.00%) ISA99
3 2 (6.67%) GRC
3 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (6.67%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (3.33%) GDPR
4 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.33%) CASB
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) ForeScout
4 1 (3.33%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.33%) Intel
4 1 (3.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.33%) Zscaler