Operations Research Contracts in London

Operations Research (or Operational Research)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Operations Research skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operations Research over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 491 591
Rank change year-on-year +102 +100 -153
Contract jobs citing Operations Research 5 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.028% 0.037% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.041% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £440 - £494
25th Percentile £463 - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £556
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -37.08% +1.14%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £602
90th Percentile £620 £700 £623
England median daily rate £500 £400 £625
% change year-on-year +25.00% -36.00% +16.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.13
Median hourly rate - - £56.25
75th Percentile - - £59.38
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - +134.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Operations Research is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Operations Research
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Operations Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Research in London

Operations Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Research in London.

Daily rate trend for Operations Research in London

Operations Research
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Research in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Research in London

Operations Research
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Research in London.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Research in London

Operations Research
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
1 3 (60.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Economics
2 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Linear Programming
2 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Research
2 2 (40.00%) Statistics
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CISM
1 3 (60.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) AlienVault
1 3 (60.00%) ArcSight
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk