Operational Technology Contract Job Trends in Kent

Operational Technology (OT)
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 1.04% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £620 - -
25th Percentile £650 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile £780 - -
South East median daily rate £575 £600 £501
% change year-on-year -4.17% +19.88% -9.00%

All Generic Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 41 43 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 21.35% 42.57% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 36 51
10th Percentile £154 £165 -
25th Percentile £263 £204 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £235 £333
Median % change year-on-year +87.77% -29.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £465 £362 £378
90th Percentile £575 £575 £438
South East median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.84% +0.85% -3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.75 - £11.45
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £35.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.54%
75th Percentile £14.25 - £35.75
90th Percentile - - £42.42
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +115.38% -23.53% -6.59%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Operational Technology job vacancy trend in Kent

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Operational Technology.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Operational Technology

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in Kent over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Technology in Kent

Operational Technology
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Dartford - 2 £700 - 1
Operational Technology
South East

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 (50.00%) FactoryTalk
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) MQTT
General
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) EAM
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (50.00%) PLM
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AVEVA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Siemens