AIOps Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

AIOps
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring AIOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 144 -
Rank change year-on-year -44 - -
Contract jobs citing AIOps 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.041% 0.077% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.088% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% - -
England median daily rate £500 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,007 2,284 2,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.33% 87.64% 82.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,316 1,490 1,427
10th Percentile £307 £235 £263
25th Percentile £407 £360 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £612
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 372 175 75
10th Percentile £13.10 £12.87 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.76 £17.87 £15.10
Median hourly rate £21.50 £21.39 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% -0.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £38.75 £26.86 £40.97
90th Percentile £67.84 £47.60 £55.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

AIOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

AIOps job vacancy trend in the Midlands

AIOps
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AIOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing AIOps

AIOps
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIOps within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
West Midlands -51 2 £280 -60.00% 15
AIOps
England

AIOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) LangChain
1 2 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) AI Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow