Operations Analyst Contracts in England

Operations Analyst
UK > England

The median Operations Analyst daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 464 631
Rank change year-on-year +47 +167 +16
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 97 125 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.31% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.33% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 77 90
10th Percentile £219 £252 £301
25th Percentile £329 £400 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -8.20% +25.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £663 £875 £713
UK median daily rate £430 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -7.03% -7.50% +19.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £25.69 £15.13 £15.35
25th Percentile £25.89 £15.21 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.56 £16.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.27% -39.62% -5.36%
75th Percentile £31.81 £23.05 £27.25
90th Percentile £35.98 £23.76 -
UK median hourly rate £27.56 £16.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year +72.27% -39.62% -5.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 28,953 37,638 64,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.75% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,172 45,824
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £418 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 1,422 1,621
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £19.25 £16.69
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%
75th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Operations Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Operations Analyst in England

Operations Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operations Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Operations Analyst in England

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Analyst in England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Analyst in England

Operations Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operations Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Operations Analyst in England

Operations Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
London +21 44 £525 -8.70% 7
North of England +30 17 £444 -6.58% 7
South East +42 16 £350 -17.60% 10
North West +24 13 £444 +10.94% 3
Midlands +7 10 £450 +20.00% 2
West Midlands +11 9 £525 -4.55% 2
South West +30 5 £675 - 2
East of England +21 5 £425 -8.11% 3
Yorkshire +19 4 £456 -8.75% 2
East Midlands 0 1 £450 +181.25%
Operations Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 across the England region featuring Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 43 (44.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.96%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (29.90%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (27.84%) Security Cleared
5 26 (26.80%) Microsoft
6 23 (23.71%) Finance
7 22 (22.68%) ITIL
8 20 (20.62%) SC Cleared
9 18 (18.56%) Azure
10 17 (17.53%) Banking
10 17 (17.53%) Incident Management
11 16 (16.49%) Service Management
11 16 (16.49%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (15.46%) SQL
12 15 (15.46%) Degree
13 14 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (13.40%) Change Management
14 13 (13.40%) Process Improvement
15 11 (11.34%) Decision-Making
15 11 (11.34%) Middleware
16 10 (10.31%) Agile
16 10 (10.31%) Problem Management
16 10 (10.31%) Actionable Insight
16 10 (10.31%) DV Cleared
17 9 (9.28%) Project Management
17 9 (9.28%) Project Delivery
18 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
18 8 (8.25%) JIRA
18 8 (8.25%) Data Analysis
18 8 (8.25%) Confluence

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.25%) Confluence
2 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.06%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.12%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.03%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.56%) Azure
2 16 (16.49%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.09%) Slack
4 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.06%) SaaS
5 1 (1.03%) AWS
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.03%) Google Sheets
5 1 (1.03%) IaaS
5 1 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) Firewall
2 6 (6.19%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.12%) DNS
3 4 (4.12%) HTTP
3 4 (4.12%) SMTP
4 3 (3.09%) Internet
4 3 (3.09%) LAN
4 3 (3.09%) WAN
5 2 (2.06%) DHCP
5 2 (2.06%) FTP
5 2 (2.06%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) Tableau
2 3 (3.09%) Power BI
3 2 (2.06%) Metadata
3 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (8.25%) JIRA
General
1 43 (44.33%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.96%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (23.71%) Finance
4 17 (17.53%) Banking
5 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Back Office
8 2 (2.06%) Legal
9 1 (1.03%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.03%) Law
9 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.03%) Marketing
9 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.03%) Police
9 1 (1.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) Middleware
2 2 (2.06%) LDAP
3 1 (1.03%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Operational Technology
2 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.15%) SCADA
2 5 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.12%) Equities
4 3 (3.09%) CMDB
4 3 (3.09%) Social Media
5 2 (2.06%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.06%) Derivative
5 2 (2.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.06%) MISP
5 2 (2.06%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.03%) PKI
6 1 (1.03%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Windows
1 7 (7.22%) Windows Server
2 6 (6.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (29.90%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (22.68%) ITIL
3 17 (17.53%) Incident Management
4 16 (16.49%) Service Management
5 14 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (13.40%) Change Management
6 13 (13.40%) Process Improvement
7 11 (11.34%) Decision-Making
8 10 (10.31%) Actionable Insight
8 10 (10.31%) Agile
8 10 (10.31%) Problem Management
9 9 (9.28%) Project Delivery
9 9 (9.28%) Project Management
10 8 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (8.25%) Data Analysis
11 7 (7.22%) Business Analysis
11 7 (7.22%) Critical Thinking
11 7 (7.22%) Risk Management
11 7 (7.22%) SIEM
11 7 (7.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.46%) SQL
2 7 (7.22%) Python
3 5 (5.15%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.06%) R
5 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.62%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.46%) Degree
4 10 (10.31%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.19%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.06%) CCNA
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (2.06%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.06%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.03%) CISA
7 1 (1.03%) CISM
7 1 (1.03%) CISSP
7 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.03%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (1.03%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.12%) SLA
2 3 (3.09%) NIST
3 2 (2.06%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.03%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.12%) Grafana
2 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.06%) Nagios
3 2 (2.06%) QRadar
3 2 (2.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) Apple
3 6 (6.19%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.19%) Splunk
4 5 (5.15%) SolarWinds
5 4 (4.12%) Tanium
6 3 (3.09%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.06%) Google
8 1 (1.03%) Adobe
8 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.03%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.03%) Cadence
8 1 (1.03%) Okta