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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operations Research 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 3.62% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £806 - -
90th Percentile £878 - -
West London median daily rate £625 - -

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 131 69 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 94.93% 83.13% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 28 67
10th Percentile £363 £158 £311
25th Percentile £450 £296 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £729 £441 £592
90th Percentile £900 £490 £650
West London median daily rate £523 £418 £475
% change year-on-year +25.15% -12.11% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 8
10th Percentile - £25.00 £14.90
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.09 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -16.61% +9.67%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £34.25
90th Percentile - - £49.80
West London median hourly rate £28.55 £25.15 £30.16
% change year-on-year +13.52% -16.61% -53.60%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Hillingdon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Research in Hillingdon over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Research in Hillingdon

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 9 July 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
Heathrow - 2 £450 -
Stockley Park - 1 - -
Uxbridge - 1 - -
West Drayton - 1 £850 -
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 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (60.00%) Dagster
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) MLflow
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aviation
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Scientist
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) NumPy
1 3 (60.00%) Pandas
1 3 (60.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (60.00%) Seaborn
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Science
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Workflow
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (60.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
3 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft