Operational Technology Contracts in Reading

Operational Technology (OT)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 77 77
Rank change year-on-year +26 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 9 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 1.17% 0.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.45% 4.44% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £525 £489 £391
25th Percentile - £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% +0.10% -1.09%
75th Percentile £564 £588 -
90th Percentile £609 - £534
Berkshire median daily rate £590 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +17.88% +0.10% -4.85%

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 165 315 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 26.43% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 190 223
10th Percentile £300 £205 £347
25th Percentile £419 £213 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £629 £608 £654
90th Percentile £650 £650 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £42.31 £45.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £63.14
Median hourly rate £29.00 £60.89 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -13.01% +169.23%
75th Percentile - £63.29 £79.19
90th Percentile - £69.62 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £42.50 £64.68
% change year-on-year +44.69% -34.29% +187.64%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Operational Technology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in Reading

Operational Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Technology in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Operational Technology in Reading

Operational Technology
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Technology in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Technology in Reading

Operational Technology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operational Technology in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Operational Technology in Reading

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) NGFW
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) GIS
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Consultant
1 5 (55.56%) Solutions Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Security Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) SCADA
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Cartography
1 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (22.22%) Data Security
1 2 (22.22%) System Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Application Security
2 1 (11.11%) Business Case
2 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Microservices
2 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
2 1 (11.11%) SIEM
2 1 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (11.11%) User Experience
2 1 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Perl
1 5 (55.56%) PL/SQL
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft