AIOps Contract Job Trends

AIOps
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring AIOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 534 604
Rank change year-on-year -37 +70 +193
Contract jobs citing AIOps 15 19 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.055% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.063% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 3
10th Percentile £413 £443 £440
25th Percentile £447 £488 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -25.00% +22.91%
75th Percentile £706 £581 £719
90th Percentile £725 £755 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly 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 32,245 30,148 39,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.48% 87.93% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,297 18,397 26,233
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,086 1,007 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.79% +25.12%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.53 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.85 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.99% -27.21% +39.06%

AIOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

AIOps job vacancy trend in the UK

AIOps
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing AIOps

AIOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AIOps over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AIOps in the UK

AIOps
Top 10 Contract Job 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 15 December 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
Work from Home +7 10 £449 -25.25% 7
England -36 10 £561 +6.86% 9
London -26 5 £447 -14.86% 9
UK excluding London - 5 £663 - 4
West Midlands - 2 £700 -
North of England - 2 £400 -
Midlands - 2 £700 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North East - 1 £400 -
Scotland - 1 £625 -

AIOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Ethereum
1 3 (20.00%) Hyperledger
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP GRC
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) GCP
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (20.00%) Stackdriver
4 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) SAP HANA
2 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) GitLab
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) GCP DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Service Architect
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (13.33%) Node.js
1 2 (13.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (13.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (13.33%) React
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
1 2 (13.33%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (13.33%) scikit-learn
1 2 (13.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) HTML5
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Basis
2 1 (6.67%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
3 1 (6.67%) Symmetrix
3 1 (6.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) VMS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) AI
2 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (40.00%) MLOps
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
6 4 (26.67%) Microservices
6 4 (26.67%) Observability
6 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
6 4 (26.67%) Use Case
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (20.00%) Data Science
7 3 (20.00%) High Availability
7 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
7 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) ABAP
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
3 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.67%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Google
2 4 (26.67%) SAP
3 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe
4 1 (6.67%) Ariba
4 1 (6.67%) BMC
4 1 (6.67%) Concur
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) NetApp
4 1 (6.67%) NetScout
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow