Operational Technology Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Operational Technology (OT)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Derbyshire. 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 29 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 1.01% 0.74% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.57% 2.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £575 £550 -
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Generic Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 84 35 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 28.19% 25.93% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 23
10th Percentile £340 £203 £310
25th Percentile £483 £444 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £655 £725 £531
90th Percentile £693 £825 £718
East Midlands median daily rate £469 £447 £447
% change year-on-year +4.92% - -10.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 2
10th Percentile - £18.70 -
25th Percentile £12.76 £20.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.08 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% -49.85% +182.17%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.11 £55.00
90th Percentile £42.53 £25.14 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.29 £21.30 £50.00
% change year-on-year -9.44% -57.40% +138.10%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Operational Technology job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Operational Technology
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 12 October 2026. 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
Derby -4 3 £475 - 1
Operational Technology
East Midlands

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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