Operations Analyst Contract Job Trends

Operations Analyst
UK

The median Operations Analyst daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 426 500
Rank change year-on-year -79 +74 +169
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 77 117 108
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.33% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.35% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 74 74
10th Percentile £206 £213 £276
25th Percentile £400 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £530 £594 £628
90th Percentile £575 £671 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -0.47% +0.06% -1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £40.06 £25.69 £16.60
25th Percentile £40.77 £25.89 £18.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.56 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.16% +25.28% -16.98%
75th Percentile £52.10 £31.81 £23.88
90th Percentile £58.19 £35.98 £24.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.72 £26.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year +97.97% +37.50% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 32,988 33,120 42,501
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.74% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,924 20,243 28,641
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £403 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,136 1,517
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.36 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%
75th Percentile £56.81 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £73.66 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Operations Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Operations Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Operations Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Analyst over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Operations Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Operations Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Operations Analyst over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England -74 72 £463 -2.63% 33
London -15 41 £463 -11.90% 14
Work from Home -18 33 £438 -16.67% 21
UK excluding London -67 32 £423 -0.47% 28
North of England -45 11 £520 +12.43% 8
Midlands -35 10 £218 -58.57%
North West -19 8 - - 7
South East -25 8 £475 +31.58% 16
West Midlands -32 6 £208 -60.38%
East Midlands -14 4 £405 -10.00%
Yorkshire -41 3 £520 +13.97% 1
Scotland +6 2 £43 -90.00%
East of England -16 1 - - 4

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Operations Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 25 (32.47%) Microsoft
2 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (23.38%) ITIL
3 18 (23.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (23.38%) SQL
4 17 (22.08%) Active Directory
4 17 (22.08%) Problem Management
5 16 (20.78%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (20.78%) OneDrive
5 16 (20.78%) Security Operations
5 16 (20.78%) SharePoint
6 14 (18.18%) Azure
6 14 (18.18%) Degree
6 14 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 14 (18.18%) Splunk
7 13 (16.88%) Project Management
7 13 (16.88%) Service Delivery
8 12 (15.58%) ITSM
8 12 (15.58%) MS Visio
8 12 (15.58%) Python
8 12 (15.58%) SIEM
8 12 (15.58%) Validation
9 11 (14.29%) Incident Response
9 11 (14.29%) Migration
10 10 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (12.99%) Firewall
10 10 (12.99%) Information Security
10 10 (12.99%) SCCM
10 10 (12.99%) SOAR
10 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management

Operations Analyst Skill Set
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 16 (20.78%) SharePoint
2 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.39%) Skype for Business
3 7 (9.09%) Exchange Server 2013
4 5 (6.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (23.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (20.78%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (15.58%) MS Visio
4 8 (10.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (5.19%) NetSuite
3 2 (2.60%) Eloqua
4 1 (1.30%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (1.30%) Loan IQ
4 1 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.78%) OneDrive
2 14 (18.18%) Azure
3 8 (10.39%) GCP
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (7.79%) SaaS
5 5 (6.49%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (6.49%) Cloudflare
5 5 (6.49%) OpenDNS
6 4 (5.19%) Lucidchart
7 3 (3.90%) AWS
7 3 (3.90%) OCI
7 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.30%) GitHub
8 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.30%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.99%) Firewall
2 8 (10.39%) Skype
3 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.30%) DHCP
4 1 (1.30%) DNS
4 1 (1.30%) LAN
4 1 (1.30%) Network Security
4 1 (1.30%) VLAN
4 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.90%) Power BI
1 3 (3.90%) Tableau
2 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.30%) Looker
2 1 (1.30%) Power Query
2 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) GitLab
2 1 (1.30%) Selenium
General
1 44 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 29 (37.66%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (35.06%) Finance
4 6 (7.79%) Banking
5 4 (5.19%) Marketing
6 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Local Government
7 1 (1.30%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (1.30%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) Playwright
1 1 (1.30%) Plotly
1 1 (1.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) Operational Technology
1 7 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.19%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.30%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.30%) Derivative
5 1 (1.30%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.30%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.30%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.30%) FMCG
5 1 (1.30%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.30%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.30%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.30%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (23.38%) ITIL
3 17 (22.08%) Problem Management
4 16 (20.78%) Security Operations
5 13 (16.88%) Project Management
5 13 (16.88%) Service Delivery
6 12 (15.58%) ITSM
6 12 (15.58%) SIEM
6 12 (15.58%) Validation
7 11 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 11 (14.29%) Migration
8 10 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (12.99%) Information Security
8 10 (12.99%) SOAR
8 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (11.69%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 9 (11.69%) Process Improvement
10 8 (10.39%) Agile
10 8 (10.39%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (10.39%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.38%) SQL
2 14 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 12 (15.58%) Python
4 5 (6.49%) Bash
4 5 (6.49%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (5.19%) VBA
6 2 (2.60%) C#
6 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.30%) Java
7 1 (1.30%) Korn
7 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Degree
2 8 (10.39%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (6.49%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (5.19%) CBAP
4 4 (5.19%) CSPO
4 4 (5.19%) GIAC
5 3 (3.90%) GCIA
5 3 (3.90%) GCIH
5 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) SSCP
6 2 (2.60%) CISM
6 2 (2.60%) CISSP
6 2 (2.60%) ISEB
6 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) CEH
7 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.19%) PMO
2 3 (3.90%) NIST
2 3 (3.90%) NIST 800
2 3 (3.90%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) NCSC
3 1 (1.30%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (22.08%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.49%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Snort
2 5 (6.49%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (12.99%) SCCM
2 8 (10.39%) HP SiteScope
2 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (10.39%) SCOM
3 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.49%) Nessus
3 5 (6.49%) Nexpose
3 5 (6.49%) Suricata
4 1 (1.30%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 25 (32.47%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.18%) Splunk
3 9 (11.69%) Remedy
4 8 (10.39%) Salesforce
5 6 (7.79%) Cisco
6 5 (6.49%) Blue Coat
6 5 (6.49%) Carbon Black
6 5 (6.49%) CrowdStrike
6 5 (6.49%) FireEye
6 5 (6.49%) Google
6 5 (6.49%) Palo Alto
6 5 (6.49%) Qualys
6 5 (6.49%) Zscaler
7 4 (5.19%) Alteryx
7 4 (5.19%) Zuora
8 3 (3.90%) Rapid7
9 2 (2.60%) Adobe
9 2 (2.60%) Oracle
10 1 (1.30%) Intel
10 1 (1.30%) SAP