Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Operational Stability
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 87 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.89% 0.084% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £458 - -
25th Percentile £508 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% - -
75th Percentile - £488 -
90th Percentile £615 - -
South East median daily rate £600 £475 -
% change year-on-year +26.32% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 877 949 1,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.49% 79.61% 87.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 620 657
10th Percentile £312 £360 £293
25th Percentile £450 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £636
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 65 103
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £34.00 £21.03
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £33.05 £75.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £55.00 £78.75 £74.75
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.49 £53.50
% change year-on-year -64.59% +9.33% +53.10%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in Hampshire over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in Hampshire

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
Basingstoke - 5 £600 - 1
Farnborough +5 3 £465 -2.11% 2
Operational Stability
South East

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (44.44%) iSCSI
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) VLAN
3 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (11.11%) NAS
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
1 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Change Control
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) API Development
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Microservices
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) MCSE
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (55.56%) vSphere
3 4 (44.44%) NFS
3 4 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
1 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) NetApp
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (44.44%) Splunk
3 4 (44.44%) Veeam
4 2 (22.22%) Aruba
4 2 (22.22%) Dell
4 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
5 1 (11.11%) EMC