Operations Analyst Contracts

Operations Analyst
UK

The median Operations Analyst daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 525 739
Rank change year-on-year +47 +214 -115
Contract jobs requiring an Operations Analyst 98 159 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.28% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.29% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 97 88
10th Percentile £275 £333 £199
25th Percentile £388 £413 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £680 £625 £538
90th Percentile £750 £775 £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -22.11% - +46.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 1
10th Percentile £11.25 £15.17 -
25th Percentile £16.04 £15.21 £25.75
Median hourly rate £21.32 £22.40 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% -15.47% -5.36%
75th Percentile £28.42 £23.15 £27.25
90th Percentile £30.20 £28.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.64 £19.18 £26.50
% change year-on-year -8.03% -27.62% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Operations Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operations Analyst over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Operations Analyst over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Operations Analyst in the UK

Operations Analyst
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +54 86 £525 -1.87% 71
London +88 57 £575 +2.22% 38
UK excluding London +7 33 £370 -22.11% 32
Work from Home +62 31 £575 +19.79% 28
North of England 0 8 £425 -20.19% 11
South East +4 7 £370 -35.07% 10
Midlands +18 6 £525 +19.32% 4
Scotland +30 5 £123 -71.18%
West Midlands +28 5 £525 +5.00% 2
North West -8 5 £425 -22.73% 7
East of England +12 3 £275 -21.43% 4
South West +6 3 £408 -24.33% 4
North East - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +13 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 featuring Operations Analyst in the job title.

1 48 (48.98%) Finance
2 27 (27.55%) Social Skills
3 25 (25.51%) Banking
4 19 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (18.37%) Microsoft
6 15 (15.31%) Security Operations
6 15 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (12.24%) Change Management
8 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
8 11 (11.22%) Incident Management
9 10 (10.20%) Business Continuity
9 10 (10.20%) SQL
9 10 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (10.20%) Risk Management
9 10 (10.20%) Workshop Facilitation
9 10 (10.20%) Power Platform
9 10 (10.20%) Power BI
9 10 (10.20%) Azure
10 9 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (9.18%) Data Modelling
10 9 (9.18%) Incident Response
11 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
12 7 (7.14%) Derivative
12 7 (7.14%) Data Management
12 7 (7.14%) Python
12 7 (7.14%) GAP Analysis
12 7 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (7.14%) SIEM
12 7 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre

Operations Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.10%) MS Visio
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.20%) Azure
1 10 (10.20%) Power Platform
2 4 (4.08%) Collibra
3 3 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (3.06%) IaaS
4 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.04%) PaaS
4 2 (2.04%) SaaS
5 1 (1.02%) AWS
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.02%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) DNS
1 4 (4.08%) Firewall
2 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.04%) DHCP
3 2 (2.04%) VPN
4 1 (1.02%) HTTP
4 1 (1.02%) Internet
4 1 (1.02%) LAN
4 1 (1.02%) SMTP
4 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.20%) Power BI
2 5 (5.10%) Metadata
3 3 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.06%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Git
General
1 48 (48.98%) Finance
2 27 (27.55%) Social Skills
3 25 (25.51%) Banking
4 19 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.10%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.10%) Legal
8 4 (4.08%) Automotive
8 4 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.08%) Retail
9 3 (3.06%) General Ledger
9 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.06%) Marketing
10 2 (2.04%) Advertising
11 1 (1.02%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.04%) Middleware
2 1 (1.02%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.14%) Derivative
1 7 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.08%) DTCC
3 4 (4.08%) Market Risk
4 3 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.04%) CCTV
5 2 (2.04%) CMDB
5 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.02%) Replication
6 1 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
1 15 (15.31%) Security Operations
2 12 (12.24%) Change Management
3 11 (11.22%) Incident Management
4 10 (10.20%) Business Continuity
4 10 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (10.20%) Risk Management
4 10 (10.20%) Workshop Facilitation
5 9 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (9.18%) Data Modelling
5 9 (9.18%) Incident Response
6 7 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (7.14%) Data Management
6 7 (7.14%) GAP Analysis
6 7 (7.14%) Regulatory Compliance
6 7 (7.14%) SIEM
6 7 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (6.12%) Problem Management
7 6 (6.12%) Validation
8 5 (5.10%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.20%) SQL
2 7 (7.14%) Python
3 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.02%) C++
5 1 (1.02%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
2 3 (3.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) CCNA
3 2 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.04%) CISSP
3 2 (2.04%) Degree
3 2 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.02%) CISM
4 1 (1.02%) GIAC
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.04%) ISO 22301
2 2 (2.04%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) Nagios
1 2 (2.04%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.06%) Splunk
3 2 (2.04%) Apple
3 2 (2.04%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.02%) Darktrace
4 1 (1.02%) Google
4 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.02%) SAP
4 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.02%) Varonis