Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Operational Stability
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 86 -
Rank change year-on-year -30 - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.33% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -
75th Percentile £546 - -
90th Percentile £573 - -
South East median daily rate £538 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +19.44% +12.50% +57.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £82.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Operational Stability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,565 1,082 1,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 85.38% 93.12% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 627 945
10th Percentile £303 £312 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 27 102
10th Percentile £25.91 £22.76 £20.20
25th Percentile £72.20 £32.05 £41.75
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £61.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +0.32% +6.02%
75th Percentile £88.00 £76.35 £72.18
90th Percentile £101.13 £88.05 £87.41
South East median hourly rate £48.02 £28.00 £45.11
% change year-on-year +71.50% -37.92% -9.79%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Operational Stability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Operational Stability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 2026. 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
Wokingham -27 4 £488 +8.33% 1
Reading - 1 - -
Operational Stability
South East

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle BRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
1 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) FTP
1 4 (66.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) Broadband
2 1 (16.67%) GPRS
2 1 (16.67%) GSM
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Billing
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Change Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Designer
1 1 (16.67%) IT Change Manager
1 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Server Management
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (16.67%) IT Governance
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow