AIOps Contract Job Trends in the South East

AIOps
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring AIOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AIOps 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.037% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -15.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,440 2,703 4,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.91% 91.97% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,914 1,720 2,915
10th Percentile £275 £257 £213
25th Percentile £406 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +2.30% -0.40%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £613
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 149 390
10th Percentile £15.23 £14.84 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.46 £20.30 £18.20
Median hourly rate £33.75 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80.12 £62.50 £62.47
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £75.16
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%

AIOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

AIOps job vacancy trend in the South East

AIOps
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AIOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing AIOps

AIOps
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIOps within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £600 -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Thames Valley - 1 £600 - 1
AIOps
England

AIOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) A/B Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Canary Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace