AIOps Contract Job Trends in the North West

AIOps
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 170 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AIOps 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £334 - -
25th Percentile £441 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - -
75th Percentile £552 - -
90th Percentile £611 - -
England median daily rate £500 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,251 1,901 1,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.81% 88.75% 83.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,883 1,250 1,161
10th Percentile £295 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% -0.50%
75th Percentile £594 £552 £588
90th Percentile £675 £657 £688
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 127 106
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.51 £16.68
25th Percentile £24.46 £17.34 £28.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.90% -40.84% +21.43%
75th Percentile £73.25 £48.94 £57.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.68 £70.90
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 North West

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

AIOps job vacancy trend in the North West

AIOps
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

AIOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIOps in the North West over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AIOps in the North West

AIOps
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester - 2 £506 - 11
Lancashire - 2 £650 - 2
Cheshire - 1 £275 - 1
AIOps
England

AIOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (20.00%) Datadog
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) IBM Watson
1 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) OSPF
2 1 (20.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Support
2 1 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Operations Management
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) NetScout
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SevOne