Operational Technology Contracts in Central London

Operational Technology (OT)
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 129 160
Rank change year-on-year +4 +31 +37
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 4 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.20% 0.16% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.53% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £550 £388 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £683 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.58% +36.50% -26.04%
75th Percentile £666 £967 £588
90th Percentile £806 £979 £633
London median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

All Generic Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in Central London

Operational Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Technology in Central London

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Technology in Central London

Operational Technology
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +6 2 £738 +8.06% 1
Camden - 2 £550 -
Operational Technology
London

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Integration Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISA
1 2 (50.00%) CISM
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) Nagios
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Qualys
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) Snow
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft