AIOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

AIOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring AIOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AIOps over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 - 423
Rank change year-on-year - - +94
Contract jobs citing AIOps 9 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% - 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% - 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £538 - -
25th Percentile £644 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +854.55%
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile £805 - -
UK median daily rate £695 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +32.38% +5.00% +9.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,658 15,365 19,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.02% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,214 9,255 13,222
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,315 1,608 1,218
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.10 £75.00 £76.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

AIOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing AIOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for AIOps in the UK excluding London

AIOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AIOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for AIOps in the UK excluding London

AIOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AIOps in the UK excluding London

AIOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AIOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
East of England - 5 £690 - 4
Midlands - 2 £700 -
West Midlands - 2 £700 -
Scotland - 1 £625 - 2
North East - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 - 6
AIOps
UK

AIOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP GRC
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Datadog
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) SAP HANA
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Programme Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Basis
2 1 (11.11%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) AI Agents
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
1 1 (11.11%) VMS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Observability
2 5 (55.56%) Change Management
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) ITSM
3 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Proactive Management
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) ABAP
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) APMG
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 3 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (22.22%) SAP
4 1 (11.11%) Adobe
4 1 (11.11%) Ariba
4 1 (11.11%) BMC
4 1 (11.11%) Concur
4 1 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) NetScout
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow