Operational Stability Contracts in England

Operational Stability
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Operational Stability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Stability over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 618 676
Rank change year-on-year +96 +58 -69
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 19 27 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.052% 0.055% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.061% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 52
10th Percentile £398 £322 £334
25th Percentile - £348 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -19.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile - £472 £558
90th Percentile £460 £538 £625
UK median daily rate £462 £425 £519
% change year-on-year +8.71% -18.07% +9.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £72.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Operational Stability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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
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 13 May 2024. 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 +24 10 - - 1
North West +24 5 - -
South West - 4 £400 -
North East +8 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
London +77 1 - - 9
South East +16 1 £400 +57.79% 4
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) SAP EWM
2 1 (5.26%) Maximo
2 1 (5.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Serverless
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.79%) BrowserStack
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (15.79%) GitHub
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) NoSQL
2 5 (26.32%) MongoDB
3 4 (21.05%) MySQL
3 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (15.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (15.79%) CockroachDB
5 2 (10.53%) Power BI
6 1 (5.26%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.26%) VisualWorks
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Military
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Applications Manager
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Monitoring Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Service Delivery Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) RESTful
1 4 (21.05%) Spring
1 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
2 3 (15.79%) JPA
2 3 (15.79%) Next.js
2 3 (15.79%) React
2 3 (15.79%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Software Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) SDLC
3 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) Microservices
4 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
5 5 (26.32%) BDD
5 5 (26.32%) ITIL
5 5 (26.32%) TDD
6 4 (21.05%) Architectural Design
6 4 (21.05%) Community of Practice
6 4 (21.05%) Information Architecture
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.79%) Full Stack Development
7 3 (15.79%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (15.79%) Scalability Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Smart Manufacturing
7 3 (15.79%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) Python
6 1 (5.26%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Grafana
2 2 (10.53%) SysTrack
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) SAP
2 3 (15.79%) Siemens
3 2 (10.53%) Citrix
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) New Relic
3 2 (10.53%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.26%) IBM