IT Operations Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Operations Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 442 498
Rank change year-on-year +54 +56 -57
Contract jobs requiring an IT Operations Analyst 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.009% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.009% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £389 £339 £213
25th Percentile £400 £341 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £363 £230
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% +57.61% +39.39%
75th Percentile £450 £397 £282
90th Percentile £461 £406 £304
UK median daily rate £463 £438 £228
% change year-on-year +5.71% +92.31% +37.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,741 21,586 29,136
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.28% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,029 20,438
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £598 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,282 1,102 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.72 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

IT Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Operations Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Operations Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Operations Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Operations Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Operations Analyst in the UK excluding London

IT Operations Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Operations Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
North of England +34 2 £425 +17.24% 3
North West +21 2 £425 +21.43% 3
South West - 1 - -
IT Operations Analyst
UK

IT Operations Analyst Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, IT 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) CMDB
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) ZABBIX
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Nagios
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace

IT Operations Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CMDB
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNA
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Nagios
1 2 (66.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds