Operational Technology Contracts in the East of England

Operational Technology (OT)
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Operational Technology in contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Technology over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 110 145
Rank change year-on-year +5 +35 -
Contract jobs citing Operational Technology 8 14 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.42% 0.71% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 2.20% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 2
10th Percentile - £210 £571
25th Percentile - £226 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £598
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -41.42% -
75th Percentile - - £612
90th Percentile - £375 £614
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
East of England

Operational Technology is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 495 635 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.27% 32.02% 28.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 409 456
10th Percentile £176 £205 £178
25th Percentile £295 £275 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -1.52% +23.75%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £599
90th Percentile £650 £675 £691
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 45 81
10th Percentile £13.18 £20.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £59.50 £57.50 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +102.39% -6.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +52.15% -15.15% +1.92%

Operational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Operational Technology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Technology in the East of England

Operational Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Technology in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Operational Technology in the East of England

Operational Technology
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Hertfordshire -2 5 - - 6
Bedfordshire -4 2 - -
Essex +6 1 £400 -
Operational Technology
England

Operational Technology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) LAN
1 5 (62.50%) SD-WAN
1 5 (62.50%) WAN
1 5 (62.50%) WLAN
2 2 (25.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Domain Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Compliance Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) IoT
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
1 5 (62.50%) Edge Computing
1 5 (62.50%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Portfolio Management
2 3 (37.50%) Presales
2 3 (37.50%) Sales Enablement
3 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Key Management
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CISA
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
1 5 (62.50%) Fortinet
1 5 (62.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Cadence