Operations Research Contracts in England

Operations Research (or Operational Research)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Operations Research skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operations Research over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 614 753
Rank change year-on-year +89 +139 -168
Contract jobs citing Operations Research 8 33 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.068% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.075% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 24 4
10th Percentile £448 £313 £494
25th Percentile £481 £341 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -31.91% +9.40%
75th Percentile £568 £402 £638
90th Percentile £617 £460 -
UK median daily rate £520 £400 £625
% change year-on-year +30.00% -36.00% +14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £53.13
Median hourly rate £21.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £21.75 - £59.38
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.50 - £56.25
% change year-on-year - - +134.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Operations Research is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,523 43,947 64,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,648 30,851 45,725
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,554 1,761
10th Percentile £12.89 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Operations Research
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Operations Research as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Research in England

Operations Research
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Research in England

Operations Research
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Research in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Research in England

Operations Research
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Research in England

Operations Research
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 Research within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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 +81 7 £520 +48.57% 9
Operations Research
UK

Operations Research
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 3 (37.50%) SAS
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (12.50%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Validation Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Validation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ADO
1 1 (12.50%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Credit Risk
2 2 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Economics
1 5 (62.50%) Mathematics
1 5 (62.50%) Statistics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Cyber Resilience
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) Data Science
3 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
3 3 (37.50%) Network Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) Credit Risk Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Linear Programming
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Model Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) C++
5 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) CISM
2 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 3 (37.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (25.00%) MBA
3 2 (25.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) AlienVault
1 3 (37.50%) ArcSight
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) CA