Operations Analyst Contracts in England

Operations Analyst
UK > England

The median Operations Analyst daily rate in England is £405, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 452 450
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 +217
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 50 72 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.23% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 46 108
10th Percentile £194 £328 £359
25th Percentile £251 £389 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £475 £541
Median % change year-on-year -14.68% -12.24% +8.25%
75th Percentile £520 £641 £725
90th Percentile £564 £681 £875
UK median daily rate £405 £463 £550
% change year-on-year -12.38% -15.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £22.99 £25.84 £15.13
25th Percentile £32.71 £26.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £49.18 £31.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.11% +96.88% -39.62%
75th Percentile £65.39 £37.06 £22.05
90th Percentile £74.97 £38.08 £23.76
UK median hourly rate £49.18 £31.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year +56.11% +96.88% -39.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,316 30,940 42,102
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 92.85% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,372 20,287 29,693
10th Percentile £285 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,337 1,796 1,314
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.21 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.48 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.32 £45.00 £41.90
Median % change year-on-year -43.73% +7.40% +63.16%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Operations Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Analyst in England

Operations Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Operations Analyst in England

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Analyst in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Analyst in England

Operations Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Analyst in England

Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Operations Analyst in England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Operations Analyst in England

Operations Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
London -2 24 £500 -4.76% 60
North of England -9 10 £225 -51.35% 2
North West -3 9 £163 -64.86% 2
Midlands -12 8 £213 -65.96% 6
South East +22 7 £449 +21.35% 13
West Midlands -14 5 £208 -66.72% 3
East Midlands 0 3 £350 -22.22% 3
East of England +9 1 - -
North East +1 1 £250 -
Operations Analyst
UK

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 August 2025, Operations Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 14 (28.00%) Finance
6 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
7 12 (24.00%) SQL
8 11 (22.00%) Splunk
9 10 (20.00%) Linux
9 10 (20.00%) Data Analysis
10 9 (18.00%) Cisco
10 9 (18.00%) Python
10 9 (18.00%) ITIL
10 9 (18.00%) Security Operations
11 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
11 8 (16.00%) SCOM
12 7 (14.00%) Problem Management
12 7 (14.00%) XMPP
12 7 (14.00%) Softphone
12 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Excel
12 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
12 7 (14.00%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (14.00%) Red Hat
12 7 (14.00%) B2B
12 7 (14.00%) Mattermost
12 7 (14.00%) SIEM
12 7 (14.00%) Skype for Business
12 7 (14.00%) Unified Communications
12 7 (14.00%) Skype
12 7 (14.00%) WebEx

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (14.00%) Mattermost
1 7 (14.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Eloqua
2 1 (2.00%) MultiFonds
2 1 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.00%) Azure
2 3 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (6.00%) GCP
3 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.00%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) Skype
1 7 (14.00%) Softphone
1 7 (14.00%) Unified Communications
1 7 (14.00%) WebEx
2 3 (6.00%) Firewall
3 2 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.00%) DNS
4 1 (2.00%) FTP
4 1 (2.00%) HTTP
4 1 (2.00%) Network Security
4 1 (2.00%) SMTP
4 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (6.00%) Looker
1 3 (6.00%) Tableau
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) JIRA
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (28.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Marketing
5 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Advertising
6 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.00%) Aviation
6 1 (2.00%) Back Office
6 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Police
6 1 (2.00%) Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) XMPP
2 1 (2.00%) LDAP
2 1 (2.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.00%) Operational Technology
4 3 (6.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.00%) Derivative
6 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.00%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.00%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.00%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.00%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 9 (18.00%) ITIL
3 9 (18.00%) Security Operations
4 7 (14.00%) B2B
4 7 (14.00%) Incident Response
4 7 (14.00%) Problem Management
4 7 (14.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (14.00%) SIEM
5 6 (12.00%) Business Analysis
5 6 (12.00%) Project Management
6 5 (10.00%) Agile
6 5 (10.00%) Analytics
6 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (8.00%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.00%) Process Improvement
7 4 (8.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (24.00%) SQL
3 9 (18.00%) Python
4 6 (12.00%) Bash
5 3 (6.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (4.00%) VBA
7 1 (2.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (8.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) CBAP
3 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) ISEB
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.00%) PMO
3 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.00%) EMIR
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Snort
2 1 (2.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) SCOM
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Nessus
2 1 (2.00%) Nexpose
2 1 (2.00%) SCCM
2 1 (2.00%) Suricata
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.00%) Splunk
3 9 (18.00%) Cisco
4 7 (14.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (8.00%) Salesforce
6 3 (6.00%) Alteryx
6 3 (6.00%) VMware
7 2 (4.00%) Adobe
7 2 (4.00%) Okta
7 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.00%) Blue Coat
8 1 (2.00%) Carbon Black
8 1 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.00%) Darktrace
8 1 (2.00%) Google
8 1 (2.00%) Qualys
8 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.00%) Temenos
8 1 (2.00%) Twitter
8 1 (2.00%) Zscaler