Operations Research Contract Job Trends in West London

Operations Research (or Operational Research)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Operations Research skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operations Research 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate £481 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% -8.70% +2.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West London

Operations Research 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 in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 171 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 92.55% 83.01% 87.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 127 252
10th Percentile £204 £220 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £409 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.45% -18.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £488 £600
90th Percentile £712 £587 £645
London median daily rate £525 £550 £555
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.90% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 21
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.98 £21.89 £16.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -23.71% -48.00%
75th Percentile £30.84 £29.77 £58.00
90th Percentile £35.00 £32.31 £72.00
London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.63
% change year-on-year -2.86% +14.29% -14.34%

Operations Research
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Operations Research relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Operations Research job vacancy trend in West London

Operations Research
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Operations Research.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Operations Research

Operations Research
Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operations Research within the West London region over the 6 months to 22 January 2026. 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
Hillingdon - 1 - -
Operations Research
London

Operations Research
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft