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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 10 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 8.40% - 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 20.00% - 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £486 - -
25th Percentile £503 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £350
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% -

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 50 28 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 42.02% 28.00% 30.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 51
10th Percentile £315 £392 £281
25th Percentile £413 £450 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +25.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £626 £626 £550
90th Percentile £725 £675 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - -37.04% +63.64%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.91 £24.65 £27.50
% change year-on-year +37.57% -10.36% +55.37%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in Coventry over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
1 5 (50.00%) Network Security
2 4 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (40.00%) WAN
3 3 (30.00%) Modbus
4 2 (20.00%) 5G
4 2 (20.00%) LoRaWAN
4 2 (20.00%) MQTT
4 2 (20.00%) NGFW
5 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
5 1 (10.00%) Internet
5 1 (10.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Network Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Systems Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 1 (10.00%) IoT Architect
5 1 (10.00%) IT Architect
5 1 (10.00%) IT Security Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Security Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Security Technical Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) SCADA
2 4 (40.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (30.00%) IoT
4 2 (20.00%) NB-IoT
5 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 4 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Network Design
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Edge Computing
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) High Availability
4 2 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) Predictive Maintenance
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Qualys