Operational Technology Contract Job Trends in the Channel Islands

Operational Technology (OT)
UK > Channel Islands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in the Channel Islands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Channel Islands 5.26% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £575 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.61% +0.88%

All Generic Skills
Channel Islands

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 the Channel Islands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Channel Islands 10.53% 10.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £311
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% -2.18%

Operational Technology
Contract Job Locations in the Channel Islands

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 Channel Islands region over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. 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
Jersey - 1 £575 -
Operational Technology
UK

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Channel Islands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST