Operations Research Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Operations Research (or Operational Research)
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring Operations Research skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operations Research 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 1.54% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hillingdon

Operations Research falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63 29 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 96.92% 76.32% 78.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 30
10th Percentile £292 £172 £193
25th Percentile £350 £366 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £700 £475 £534
90th Percentile £716 £568 £600
West London median daily rate £509 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +24.45% -18.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 6
10th Percentile £18.84 - -
25th Percentile £19.54 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £100.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -78.54% +471.43% -61.11%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £19.88
90th Percentile £27.31 - £25.21
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £24.80 £32.50
% change year-on-year +1.43% -23.71% -48.00%

Operations Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Operations Research relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon.

Operations Research job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Operations Research
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Operations Research.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Operations Research

Operations Research
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Uxbridge - 1 - -
Operations Research
West London

Operations Research
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft