Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Operational Stability
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.33% - 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% - 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 773 437 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.48% 87.05% 81.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 294 406
10th Percentile £313 £163 £235
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +1.68% -5.94%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £580
90th Percentile £685 £689 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £477 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -1.19% -3.40% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 43
10th Percentile £14.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.09 £12.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.61 £16.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.28% -38.46% +32.64%
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.51 £47.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £30.29 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% +0.20%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP GRC
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP GRC Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) BDD
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Coaching
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Security
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP