Operations Analyst Contracts in London

Operations Analyst
England > London

The median Operations Analyst daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 339 407
Rank change year-on-year +20 +68 +133
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 22 57 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.35% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 44 51
10th Percentile £330 £413 £325
25th Percentile £419 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -2.13% +17.50%
75th Percentile £563 £700 £775
90th Percentile £590 £788 £875
England median daily rate £500 £538 £533
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.94% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £18.78 £17.70 £21.53
25th Percentile £22.19 £21.00 £22.31
Median hourly rate £28.75 £28.00 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.46% -
75th Percentile £35.69 £33.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £39.33 £35.10 £27.98
England median hourly rate £40.50 £21.32 £22.40
% change year-on-year +89.96% -4.82% -15.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,322 16,344 24,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.55% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,688 11,839 17,686
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.55% +3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 322 279
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.22 £22.57
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.66 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.10% -23.18% +2.86%
75th Percentile £49.88 £46.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £65.03 £82.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.48% -16.67% +93.05%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Analyst in London

Operations Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Analyst in London

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Analyst in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Analyst in London

Operations Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Analyst in London

Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Operations Analyst in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Operations Analyst in London

Operations Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Central London +4 5 £525 -22.79% 9
North London - 1 - -
Operations Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 London region featuring Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 6 (27.27%) JIRA
5 5 (22.73%) Python
5 5 (22.73%) Process Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) SIEM
6 4 (18.18%) Bash
6 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
6 4 (18.18%) Security Operations
6 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (18.18%) Windows
6 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 4 (18.18%) Service Management
6 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
6 4 (18.18%) SOAR
6 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) VMware
7 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
7 3 (13.64%) Degree
7 3 (13.64%) Azure
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) Linux
7 3 (13.64%) SQL
7 3 (13.64%) Runbook
7 3 (13.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Aladdin
1 1 (4.55%) MultiFonds
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 2 (9.09%) Looker
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
1 2 (9.09%) Power Query
1 2 (9.09%) Tableau
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Advertising
5 1 (4.55%) Back Office
5 1 (4.55%) Billing
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (13.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (9.09%) Client/Server
3 2 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 5 (22.73%) Process Improvement
4 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 4 (18.18%) Security Operations
4 4 (18.18%) Service Management
4 4 (18.18%) SIEM
4 4 (18.18%) SOAR
4 4 (18.18%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (13.64%) Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Change Management
5 3 (13.64%) Migration
5 3 (13.64%) Runbook
6 2 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (9.09%) Agile
6 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
6 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) CBAP
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) EMIR
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Splunk
2 3 (13.64%) VMware
3 2 (9.09%) Okta
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.55%) Charles River
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) Temenos