Operational Technology Contracts in Yorkshire

Operational Technology (OT)
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 94 119
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 +23
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 3 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.29% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 1.28% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile £603 £481 -
25th Percentile £606 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £619 - £588
90th Percentile £623 £850 £594
England median daily rate £575 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +2.22% -2.17% -4.17%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

Operational Technology falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 346 467 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 34.02% 27.65% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 254 458
10th Percentile £263 £265 £279
25th Percentile £375 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.63% +9.97%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £618
90th Percentile £668 £645 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 69 41
10th Percentile £23.63 - -
25th Percentile £27.56 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £36.91 £14.63 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +152.34% +37.58% -43.16%
75th Percentile £82.86 £15.25 -
90th Percentile £97.60 £24.17 £22.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Operational Technology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in Yorkshire

Operational Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Technology in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Operational Technology in Yorkshire

Operational Technology
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Technology within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Yorkshire +11 1 £625 -3.85% 13
South Yorkshire +8 1 - - 5
North Yorkshire - 1 £600 - 6
Operational Technology
England

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 4G
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) ISDN
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) PSTN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Security Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Programme Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Project Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) VMware