AIOps Contract Job Trends in the North of England

AIOps
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring AIOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 165 -
Rank change year-on-year -58 - -
Contract jobs citing AIOps 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.037% 0.031% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.035% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £675 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -15.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,703 2,882 4,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 86.90% 88.95% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,059 1,763 2,648
10th Percentile £256 £263 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £582
90th Percentile £646 £655 £672
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 146 341
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £11.50
25th Percentile £21.65 £19.06 £13.50
Median hourly rate £44.00 £27.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +32.82% -27.86%
75th Percentile £63.48 £46.18 £45.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.13 £53.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -17.14% +2.94% -5.56%

AIOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

AIOps job vacancy trend in the North of England

AIOps
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AIOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing AIOps

AIOps
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIOps within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 March 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
North East - 1 £400 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
AIOps
England

AIOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Munging
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) SAP