AIOps Contracts

AIOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 515 580 704
Rank change year-on-year +65 +124 +149
Contract jobs citing AIOps 5 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.005% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.005% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +26.18%
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

AIOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AIOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AIOps in the UK

AIOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AIOps.

Daily rate trend for AIOps in the UK

AIOps
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +59 4 £600 +4.35% 20
Work from Home +42 3 £600 +4.35% 10
London +39 3 £600 +4.35% 12
North West - 1 - - 1
UK excluding London - 1 - - 11
North of England - 1 - - 2

AIOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Pulsar
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Flink
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Loki
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Predictive Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Search Processing Language
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) OSCP
1 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Istio
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) linkerd
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk