Operational Stability Contracts in Scotland

Operational Stability
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 - 171
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 19 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.87% - 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% - 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 2
10th Percentile £417 - £408
25th Percentile £438 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £441
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.97%
75th Percentile - - £461
90th Percentile - - £473
UK median daily rate £462 £450 £519
% change year-on-year +2.67% -13.25% +9.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,599 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.58% 92.52% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,869 2,319
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £389 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £587 £558 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.79 £16.86 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -57.86% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £49.24 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in Scotland

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in Scotland

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 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
Glasgow - 19 £500 - 3
Operational Stability
UK

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (31.58%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) HBase
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (52.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
1 8 (42.11%) Full Stack Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Java Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Java Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) Python Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Angular Developer
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Big Data Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Site Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) AngularJS
1 12 (63.16%) Spring
2 10 (52.63%) CSS
2 10 (52.63%) HTML
2 10 (52.63%) JPA
2 10 (52.63%) REST
2 10 (52.63%) Spring Boot
3 6 (31.58%) PySpark
4 2 (10.53%) React
5 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.26%) Kafka
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Agile
2 18 (94.74%) SDLC
3 17 (89.47%) Software Engineering
4 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
5 12 (63.16%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (63.16%) Full Stack Development
5 12 (63.16%) Machine Learning
6 11 (57.89%) Decision-Making
7 10 (52.63%) Microservices
8 6 (31.58%) Community of Practice
9 1 (5.26%) Batch Scripting
9 1 (5.26%) Clean Code
9 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
9 1 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
9 1 (5.26%) DevOps
9 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
9 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (5.26%) Service Design
9 1 (5.26%) Service-Level Objective
9 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Java
2 12 (63.16%) SQL
3 10 (52.63%) TypeScript
4 7 (36.84%) Python
5 1 (5.26%) Groovy
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (5.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle
1 1 (5.26%) Splunk