Operational Technology Contract Job Trends in Dartford

Operational Technology (OT)
Kent > Dartford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Dartford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dartford 11.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £620 - -
25th Percentile £650 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile £780 - -
Kent median daily rate £700 - -

All Generic Skills
Dartford

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 Dartford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dartford 33.33% 42.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £146 £162 -
25th Percentile £146 £165 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 £170 -
Median % change year-on-year +104.91% - -
75th Percentile £594 £185 -
90th Percentile £700 £194 -
Kent median daily rate £441 £235 £333
% change year-on-year +87.77% -29.32% -5.00%

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Histogram in Dartford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in Dartford over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Technology in Dartford

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dartford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) FactoryTalk
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
General
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) EAM
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (50.00%) PLM
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AVEVA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens