Operational Stability Contracts in the North West

Operational Stability
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Operational Stability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Stability over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 153 165
Rank change year-on-year +23 +12 -22
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 4 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.17% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £558
25th Percentile - - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
75th Percentile - - £631
90th Percentile - - £643
England median daily rate £400 £425 £525
% change year-on-year -5.88% -19.05% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Operational Stability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,396 2,893 3,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.28% 90.60% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 2,057 2,616
10th Percentile £306 £313 £238
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £590 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 144 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.30 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +70.82% +10.76%
75th Percentile £45.22 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the North West

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in the North West

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Stability within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Manchester - 4 - - 1
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Smart Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) User Research
3 1 (25.00%) Web Design
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
1 2 (50.00%) Siemens