Operational Technology Contracts in Cumbria

Operational Technology (OT)
North West > Cumbria

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Cumbria. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 4 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 2.30% - 9.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.76% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £428 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - £533
75th Percentile £448 - £534
90th Percentile £451 - -
North West median daily rate £442 £963 £529
% change year-on-year -54.05% +82.03% +3.17%

All Generic Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34 59 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 19.54% 24.18% 39.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 47 18
10th Percentile £368 £430 £436
25th Percentile £416 £478 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £493 £486
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +1.44% -15.48%
75th Percentile £563 £500 -
90th Percentile £638 £623 £539
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 2
10th Percentile £25.13 - £45.24
25th Percentile £26.91 - £51.60
Median hourly rate £29.64 £13.00 £62.20
Median % change year-on-year +127.96% -79.10% +30.95%
75th Percentile £34.67 £44.74 £72.80
90th Percentile £55.39 - £79.16
North West median hourly rate £40.59 £25.63 £27.50
% change year-on-year +58.40% -6.82% +44.74%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in Cumbria

Operational Technology
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 4 £442 - 2
Operational Technology
North West

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 4 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 4 (100.00%) 4G
1 4 (100.00%) 5G
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) IPsec
1 4 (100.00%) MPLS
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Designer
1 4 (100.00%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Dell