Hybrid/Remote AIOps Contract Job Trends

AIOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring AIOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 285 342
Rank change year-on-year -37 +57 +108
Contract jobs citing AIOps 13 5 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.11% 0.053% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.058% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £438 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £544 - £588
90th Percentile £582 - -
UK median daily rate £520 £690 £575
% change year-on-year -24.71% +20.00% +15.00%
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 median hourly rate £69.18 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,839 8,680 12,874
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.60% 91.33% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,995 5,949 8,668
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 203 572
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.85 £14.89
25th Percentile £30.50 £18.36 £24.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -18.60% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

AIOps
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AIOps and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

AIOps job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

AIOps
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AIOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AIOps

AIOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing AIOps over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

AIOps daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

AIOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) Datadog
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) ITSM Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (23.08%) eBPF
3 1 (7.69%) Fluent Bit
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (15.38%) EMC VMAX
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) CMDB
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Replication
4 1 (7.69%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Observability
3 7 (53.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) Anomaly Detection
5 5 (38.46%) AI
5 5 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (38.46%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (38.46%) Roadmaps
5 5 (38.46%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (30.77%) ITSM
6 4 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (30.77%) Use Case
7 3 (23.08%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (23.08%) High Availability
7 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
7 3 (23.08%) ITIL
7 3 (23.08%) Open Source
7 3 (23.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) etcd
2 1 (7.69%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 4 (30.77%) Grafana
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Dynatrace
2 5 (38.46%) Splunk
3 3 (23.08%) Cribl.io
4 1 (7.69%) NetApp