Operational Technology Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Operational Technology (OT)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 123 146
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +52
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 7 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.06% 0.95% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £373 £608 £571
25th Percentile £406 £619 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £700
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% - +19.15%
75th Percentile £538 £828 £728
90th Percentile £568 £924 £730
Central London median daily rate £431 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -38.39% - +3.55%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 662 632 983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.24% 29.98% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 385 647
10th Percentile £349 £361 £313
25th Percentile £450 £481 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £694 £725 £738
90th Percentile £801 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.92
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -26.32%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £42.32
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -34.21%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in the City of London

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Operational Technology.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Operational Technology

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Technology in the City of London

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (28.57%) Modbus
3 1 (14.29%) 3GPP
3 1 (14.29%) 4G
3 1 (14.29%) 5G
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) IPsec
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) OSPF
3 1 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) IT Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Planner
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) SCADA
2 2 (28.57%) Industry 4.0
2 2 (28.57%) Insider Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Life Science
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (28.57%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Network Design
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Antivirus Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Flow Diagram
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Information Security
3 2 (28.57%) Information Security Management
3 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (28.57%) Security Management
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (14.29%) Security Monitoring
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (28.57%) CCNA
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (14.29%) PMP
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Rockwell
3 1 (14.29%) AlgoSec
3 1 (14.29%) AVEVA
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Tufin