Operations Analyst Contracts

Operations Analyst
UK

The median Operations Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 504 556
Rank change year-on-year +24 +52 +194
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 50 96 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.24% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 61 99
10th Percentile £230 £275 £325
25th Percentile £300 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £525 £680 £625
90th Percentile £598 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £449 £370 £475
% change year-on-year +21.28% -22.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 8
10th Percentile £43.46 £11.25 £15.15
25th Percentile £49.78 £16.04 £19.55
Median hourly rate £60.93 £21.32 £22.78
Median % change year-on-year +185.76% -6.39% -19.38%
75th Percentile £71.45 £28.42 £24.54
90th Percentile £77.39 £30.20 £28.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £81.35 £17.64 £23.15
% change year-on-year +361.17% -23.80% -12.64%

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 26,887 40,034 55,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,565 26,064 39,048
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,046 2,665 1,566
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.11
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +90.68%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%

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 5 May 2025.

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 5 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Top 12 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 5 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 +26 48 £500 -4.76% 111
UK excluding London +45 25 £449 +21.28% 52
London +17 23 £500 -13.04% 78
Work from Home +32 15 £525 -8.70% 44
North of England +24 9 £473 +23.93% 8
South East +45 8 £250 -32.43% 18
North West +17 8 £499 +30.82% 2
West Midlands +17 4 £525 - 2
Midlands +17 4 £525 - 3
East of England +31 3 £313 +13.64% 14
Scotland +9 1 £425 +269.57% 9
North East -4 1 £250 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, 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 24 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (28.00%) ITIL
4 14 (28.00%) Incident Management
5 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
6 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
6 11 (22.00%) Public Sector
6 11 (22.00%) Incident Response
6 11 (22.00%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (20.00%) SIEM
7 10 (20.00%) Finance
8 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (18.00%) Security Operations
9 8 (16.00%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (14.00%) Change Management
10 7 (14.00%) SQL
10 7 (14.00%) Agile
10 7 (14.00%) JIRA
10 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
10 7 (14.00%) SCOM
10 7 (14.00%) ServiceNow
10 7 (14.00%) Splunk
11 6 (12.00%) Project Management
11 6 (12.00%) Management Information System
11 6 (12.00%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (10.00%) Service Management
12 5 (10.00%) Linux
12 5 (10.00%) Python

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 4 (8.00%) Mattermost
1 4 (8.00%) Skype for Business
2 3 (6.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.00%) Eloqua
1 1 (2.00%) MultiFonds
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Skype
1 4 (8.00%) Softphone
1 4 (8.00%) Unified Communications
1 4 (8.00%) WebEx
2 3 (6.00%) Firewall
2 3 (6.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (4.00%) DNS
3 2 (4.00%) Network Security
4 1 (2.00%) DHCP
4 1 (2.00%) FTP
4 1 (2.00%) HTTP
4 1 (2.00%) SMTP
4 1 (2.00%) SSL
4 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Power BI
1 2 (4.00%) Tableau
2 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
General
1 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (22.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (20.00%) Finance
5 5 (10.00%) Banking
6 4 (8.00%) Billing
7 3 (6.00%) Legal
8 2 (4.00%) Marketing
8 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (4.00%) Retail
8 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.00%) Advertising
9 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.00%) Aviation
9 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.00%) German Language
9 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.00%) Law
9 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) XMPP
2 1 (2.00%) LDAP
2 1 (2.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.00%) Client/Server
5 2 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.00%) CMDB
6 1 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.00%) Derivative
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.00%) Equities
6 1 (2.00%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.00%) PKI
6 1 (2.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) Incident Management
1 14 (28.00%) ITIL
1 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (22.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (22.00%) Incident Response
3 10 (20.00%) SIEM
4 9 (18.00%) Security Operations
5 7 (14.00%) Agile
5 7 (14.00%) Change Management
6 6 (12.00%) Project Management
7 5 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (10.00%) Data Analysis
7 5 (10.00%) Problem Management
7 5 (10.00%) Service Management
8 4 (8.00%) B2B
8 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
8 4 (8.00%) Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (8.00%) Risk Management
8 4 (8.00%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (6.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (14.00%) SQL
2 6 (12.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (10.00%) Python
4 2 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (10.00%) Degree
5 4 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (4.00%) CISSP
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.00%) CBAP
7 1 (2.00%) CCNA
7 1 (2.00%) CEH
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.00%) GCFE
7 1 (2.00%) GCIH
7 1 (2.00%) GIAC
7 1 (2.00%) GREM
7 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) EMIR
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) SCOM
2 3 (6.00%) SCCM
3 1 (2.00%) Nagios
3 1 (2.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) ServiceNow
2 7 (14.00%) Splunk
3 4 (8.00%) Cisco
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.00%) SolarWinds
4 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.00%) Adobe
5 2 (4.00%) Charles River
5 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.00%) Okta
6 1 (2.00%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.00%) Temenos
6 1 (2.00%) Twitter
6 1 (2.00%) VMware