Operational Technology Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Operational Technology (OT)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.40% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

Operational Technology falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 86 50 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 34.26% 26.74% 30.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 31
10th Percentile £303 £138 £135
25th Percentile £363 £155 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £344 £400
Median % change year-on-year +52.73% -14.06% -20.00%
75th Percentile £606 £488 £523
90th Percentile £622 £556 £638
UK median daily rate £518 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -2.13% -3.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 -
Median hourly rate £15.05 £22.56 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.29% - -
75th Percentile £15.33 £23.94 -
90th Percentile £16.14 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.45% +2.62% +73.08%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Operational Technology relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Operational Technology job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Operational Technology
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 October 2025. 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
County Antrim - 1 £500 - 1
Operational Technology
UK

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP