AIOps Contract Job Trends in Manchester

AIOps
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring AIOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AIOps 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £502 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - -
75th Percentile £514 - -
90th Percentile £517 - -
North West median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

AIOps 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,644 877 1,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.58% 87.70% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 565 717
10th Percentile £304 £306 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £597 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
North West median daily rate £492 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +9.33% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 51 59
10th Percentile £22.63 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.00 £19.07 £20.88
Median hourly rate £61.25 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +170.66% -35.34% +79.49%
75th Percentile £77.00 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £76.20
North West median hourly rate £53.00 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +84.35% -4.17% -1.77%

AIOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AIOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

AIOps job vacancy trend in Manchester

AIOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) VMware