Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Operational Stability
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
27 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 1.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 205 152 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 77.95% 90.48% 76.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 125 149
10th Percentile £250 £191 £143
25th Percentile £298 £260 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £502 £540 £553
90th Percentile £644 £625 £639
South Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - £21.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £24.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +34.72% +12.29%
75th Percentile £20.88 £34.06 £35.88
90th Percentile £21.00 £45.88 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £21.25 £22.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% - +24.04%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Star Schema
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Operations Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Services Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
38 Operational Stability jobs Nationwide