Operational Technology Contract Job Trends in Royston

Operational Technology (OT)
Hertfordshire > Royston

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Royston. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Royston 25.00% - 40.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 25.00% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £425
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate - £379 £425
% change year-on-year - -10.88% +21.43%

All Generic Skills
Royston

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 Royston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Royston 100.00% 100.00% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile - £663 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £688 £475
90th Percentile - - £483
Hertfordshire median daily rate £475 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -11.63% +13.16% -5.00%

Operational Technology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Royston 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISA99
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST