Operations Analyst Contracts

Operations Analyst
UK

The median Operations Analyst daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 561 742
Rank change year-on-year +66 +181 -103
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 96 158 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.27% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.28% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 99 86
10th Percentile £275 £325 £185
25th Percentile £388 £413 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +9.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £680 £625 £538
90th Percentile £750 £775 £581
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -22.11% - +46.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 2
10th Percentile £11.25 £15.15 £25.93
25th Percentile £16.04 £19.55 £26.19
Median hourly rate £21.32 £22.78 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -19.38% +4.63%
75th Percentile £28.42 £24.54 £31.19
90th Percentile £30.20 £28.72 £31.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.64 £23.15 £26.50
% change year-on-year -23.80% -12.64% -1.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Operations Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Analyst over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Operations Analyst over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Top 15 Contract 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 4 May 2024. 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 +52 85 £525 - 67
London +83 57 £575 +4.55% 39
UK excluding London +19 31 £370 -22.11% 29
Work from Home +71 30 £575 +15.00% 28
North of England +3 8 £381 -28.40% 8
Midlands +21 6 £525 +22.09% 4
South East +13 6 £370 -35.07% 8
West Midlands +27 5 £525 +50.00% 2
North West -5 5 £381 -30.68% 5
Scotland +32 4 £115 -73.26% 1
South West +19 3 £408 -24.33% 4
East of England +12 3 £275 -21.43% 6
North East - 2 - -
Yorkshire +20 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £450 -

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Operations Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 47 (48.96%) Finance
2 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.04%) Banking
3 17 (17.71%) Microsoft
4 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (15.63%) Security Operations
6 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (10.42%) Workshop Facilitation
7 10 (10.42%) Azure
7 10 (10.42%) Business Continuity
7 10 (10.42%) Incident Management
7 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
7 10 (10.42%) Change Management
7 10 (10.42%) Risk Management
8 9 (9.38%) Data Modelling
8 9 (9.38%) SQL
8 9 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (9.38%) Power BI
8 9 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
9 8 (8.33%) Incident Response
10 7 (7.29%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (7.29%) Regulatory Compliance
10 7 (7.29%) SIEM
10 7 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (7.29%) GAP Analysis
10 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (7.29%) Derivative
10 7 (7.29%) Security Cleared
10 7 (7.29%) Data Management

Operations Analyst Skill Set
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 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.21%) MS Visio
4 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.42%) Azure
2 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.17%) Collibra
4 3 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (3.13%) IaaS
5 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.08%) PaaS
5 2 (2.08%) SaaS
6 1 (1.04%) AWS
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.04%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) DNS
1 4 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.08%) VPN
3 1 (1.04%) DHCP
3 1 (1.04%) HTTP
3 1 (1.04%) Internet
3 1 (1.04%) LAN
3 1 (1.04%) SMTP
3 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.38%) Power BI
2 5 (5.21%) Metadata
3 3 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Git
General
1 47 (48.96%) Finance
2 25 (26.04%) Banking
2 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.21%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.17%) Automotive
6 4 (4.17%) Legal
6 4 (4.17%) Retail
7 3 (3.13%) General Ledger
7 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.13%) Marketing
8 2 (2.08%) Advertising
9 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) Middleware
2 1 (1.04%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.29%) Derivative
1 7 (7.29%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.13%) DTCC
4 3 (3.13%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.08%) CCTV
5 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.04%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.04%) CMDB
6 1 (1.04%) CSOC
6 1 (1.04%) Equities
6 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.04%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.04%) Replication
6 1 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Windows
2 4 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (15.63%) Security Operations
2 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (10.42%) Business Continuity
3 10 (10.42%) Change Management
3 10 (10.42%) Incident Management
3 10 (10.42%) Risk Management
3 10 (10.42%) Workshop Facilitation
4 9 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (9.38%) Data Modelling
5 8 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 7 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (7.29%) Data Management
6 7 (7.29%) GAP Analysis
6 7 (7.29%) Regulatory Compliance
6 7 (7.29%) SIEM
6 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (6.25%) Validation
8 5 (5.21%) ITIL
8 5 (5.21%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.38%) SQL
2 6 (6.25%) Python
3 5 (5.21%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.04%) C++
5 1 (1.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (7.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) CISSP
3 2 (2.08%) Degree
3 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.04%) CCNA
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.04%) CISM
4 1 (1.04%) GIAC
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.08%) ISO 22301
2 2 (2.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.04%) Nagios
1 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.13%) Splunk
3 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.04%) Apple
3 1 (1.04%) Darktrace
3 1 (1.04%) Google
3 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.04%) SAP
3 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.04%) SolarWinds
3 1 (1.04%) Varonis