Operational Technology Contract Job Trends in Derby

Operational Technology (OT)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Derby. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 1.46% 0.93% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.55% 3.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Generic Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 66 26 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 32.04% 24.30% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 16
10th Percentile £350 £290 £310
25th Percentile £513 £444 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £572
90th Percentile £683 £725 £739
Derbyshire median daily rate £575 £550 £450
% change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 0
10th Percentile - £18.70 -
25th Percentile £12.76 £20.50 -
Median hourly rate £22.80 £25.08 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.07% - -
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.11 -
90th Percentile - £25.14 -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.00 £25.08 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.30% -49.85% +182.17%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Operational Technology relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

Operational Technology job vacancy trend in Derby

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) IPsec
1 1 (33.33%) Modbus
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) MQTT
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Information Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Project Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Industry 4.0
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Edge Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Smart Manufacturing
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (33.33%) OneTrust
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
20 Operational Technology jobs in the East Midlands