Operational Stability Contracts in England

Operational Stability
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 522 626
Rank change year-on-year +83 +104 +63
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 46 20 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.054% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.062% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 12
10th Percentile £431 £398 £322
25th Percentile £458 - £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -5.88% -19.05%
75th Percentile £763 £512 £538
90th Percentile £825 £523 £549
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +7.50% +17.65% -15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in England

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in England

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in England

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +26 16 £615 - 9
London +50 13 £600 - 36
South East +52 7 £450 +12.50% 6
South West +47 6 £538 +34.38% 13
North West +19 6 £800 - 9
Yorkshire +12 6 £780 -
North East +1 4 £465 -
Midlands +20 1 - - 2
West Midlands +12 1 - - 2
Operational Stability
UK

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (32.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) AWS
2 7 (15.22%) Slack
3 5 (10.87%) Kong
4 4 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.35%) Azure
5 2 (4.35%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.17%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) MongoDB
2 15 (32.61%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (28.26%) MySQL
4 8 (17.39%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (15.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) JIRA
2 14 (30.43%) Git
3 9 (19.57%) JUnit
4 8 (17.39%) Cucumber
4 8 (17.39%) GitLab
4 8 (17.39%) Jasmine
5 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
6 5 (10.87%) Artifactory
6 5 (10.87%) gulp
6 5 (10.87%) Maven
6 5 (10.87%) SonarQube
6 5 (10.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (10.87%) Visual Studio
7 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.35%) Selenium
8 1 (2.17%) Mockito
General
1 10 (21.74%) Finance
2 9 (19.57%) Public Sector
3 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.35%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (54.35%) Developer
2 13 (28.26%) Senior
3 10 (21.74%) Senior Developer
4 9 (19.57%) Java Developer
5 7 (15.22%) Lead
5 7 (15.22%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Delphi Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
8 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Oracle Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Service Manager
9 2 (4.35%) SQL Developer
10 1 (2.17%) CRM Manager
10 1 (2.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 1 (2.17%) Principal Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.78%) Spring
2 14 (30.43%) RESTful
2 14 (30.43%) Spring Boot
3 10 (21.74%) AngularJS
4 7 (15.22%) OpenAPI
4 7 (15.22%) Spring Batch
4 7 (15.22%) Spring Security
4 7 (15.22%) Swagger
5 6 (13.04%) Node.js
6 5 (10.87%) Apache CXF
6 5 (10.87%) CSS
6 5 (10.87%) Express.js
6 5 (10.87%) Hibernate
6 5 (10.87%) HTML
6 5 (10.87%) JAX-RS
6 5 (10.87%) jQuery
6 5 (10.87%) Kafka
6 5 (10.87%) MEAN Stack
6 5 (10.87%) MERN Stack
6 5 (10.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 8 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (17.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Software Engineering
2 17 (36.96%) Agile
3 15 (32.61%) CI/CD
3 15 (32.61%) Microservices
4 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (28.26%) Continuous Delivery
6 12 (26.09%) Mentoring
6 12 (26.09%) TDD
7 11 (23.91%) BDD
7 11 (23.91%) Change Management
8 10 (21.74%) Coaching
8 10 (21.74%) Containerisation
8 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
9 9 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (19.57%) Service Management
9 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (17.39%) Kernel Tuning
10 8 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (15.22%) API Design
11 7 (15.22%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 23 (50.00%) SQL
2 18 (39.13%) Java
3 12 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.39%) Bash
5 6 (13.04%) PL/SQL
6 5 (10.87%) C#
7 4 (8.70%) Delphi
8 3 (6.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (23.91%) Terraform
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.35%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (2.17%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.35%) BMC
4 1 (2.17%) Informatica
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.17%) Siebel