Operational Stability Contracts in the East Midlands

Operational Stability
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Operational Stability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Stability over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 65 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.13% 0.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +14.13% -16.36% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 617 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.36% 81.72% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 414 527
10th Percentile £226 £265 £210
25th Percentile £333 £360 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £610
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 34 44
10th Percentile £14.96 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.74 £19.43
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.16 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -37.95% +57.03%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.06 £53.81
90th Percentile - £50.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +53.90%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the East Midlands

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Operational Stability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 August 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -13 1 £575 -
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (100.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Twin
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storytelling
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes