Operational Technology Contracts in the North West

Operational Technology (OT)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Technology over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 150 180
Rank change year-on-year +19 +30 -44
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 6 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.31% 0.049%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.82% 0.93% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £785 £503 -
25th Percentile £875 £508 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £963 £516 £600
Median % change year-on-year +86.44% -13.96% +113.33%
75th Percentile £988 £525 -
90th Percentile - £530 -
England median daily rate £563 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
North West

Operational Technology is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 735 1,080 1,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.60% 33.80% 34.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 722 1,070
10th Percentile £295 £296 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +23.14%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £588
90th Percentile £672 £675 £672
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 47 63
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.74 £12.27
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +51.24% +3.35%
75th Percentile £42.19 £65.00 £39.14
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.19
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Operational Technology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in the North West

Operational Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Technology in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Operational Technology in the North West

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Technology in the North West

Operational Technology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operational Technology in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Operational Technology in the North West

Operational Technology
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 Operational Technology within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Lancashire - 4 £963 -
Cheshire +4 2 - - 1
Operational Technology
England

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) MQTT
General
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 2 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) IAM Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 2 (33.33%) IoT
1 2 (33.33%) Robotics
1 2 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Edge Computing
1 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 2 (33.33%) QMS
1 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
1 2 (33.33%) Threat Management
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
2 1 (16.67%) Business Case
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Value Proposition
2 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Intel
119 Operational Technology jobs in England