Operational Technology Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Operational Technology (OT)
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.82% - 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% - 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £363 - £430
25th Percentile £409 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile - - £875
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +6.19%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 303 223 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 35.56% 29.46% 25.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 122 160
10th Percentile £295 £263 £205
25th Percentile £358 £356 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -5.89% -
75th Percentile £538 £509 £591
90th Percentile £638 £575 £675
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 8
10th Percentile £18.87 £21.08 £17.40
25th Percentile £20.74 £30.05 £19.81
Median hourly rate £21.39 £50.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.22% +138.10% +19.59%
75th Percentile £24.06 £55.00 £65.44
90th Percentile £25.13 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.62% +16.67% +73.08%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Operational Technology job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Operational Technology.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Operational Technology

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Technology in the East Midlands

Operational Technology
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Northamptonshire - 6 £550 - 1
Derbyshire - 1 - - 2
Operational Technology
England

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
General
1 4 (57.14%) Automotive
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Robotics
2 2 (28.57%) SCADA
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Logistics
1 4 (57.14%) Project Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) AI
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) SOAR
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) PMI Certification
1 2 (28.57%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Tenable
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) VMware