Operational Technology Contracts in Coventry

Operational Technology (OT)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Coventry. 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 11 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 8 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 8.25% - 2.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 29.63% - 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £560 - £358
25th Percentile £575 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £725 - £444
90th Percentile - - £463
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £463 £640
% change year-on-year +29.73% -27.73% -5.19%

All Generic Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 27 34 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 27.84% 23.78% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 55
10th Percentile £381 £396 £294
25th Percentile £438 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £613
90th Percentile £725 £688 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +80.00%
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in Coventry

Operational Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Technology in Coventry

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Modbus
2 2 (25.00%) 5G
2 2 (25.00%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (25.00%) MQTT
3 1 (12.50%) DKIM
3 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) Internet
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Security Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) IoT Architect
4 1 (12.50%) IT Architect
4 1 (12.50%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Security Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) SCADA
2 4 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 3 (37.50%) IoT
4 2 (25.00%) NB-IoT
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (37.50%) SIEM
2 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
3 2 (25.00%) Edge Computing
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Acquisition
4 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 1 (12.50%) Predictive Maintenance
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) NCSC
2 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft