Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in London

Operational Stability
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 355 401
Rank change year-on-year -5 +46 +148
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 21 26 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.17% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.19% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 2
10th Percentile £325 £430 £540
25th Percentile £381 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £528 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.26% -15.60% +19.05%
75th Percentile £713 £635 £688
90th Percentile £730 £725 £710
England median daily rate £483 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -8.53% -4.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,051 13,742 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 89.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 8,839 12,265
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 165 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.80 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +8.24% -13.38%
75th Percentile £47.94 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in London

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in London

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Central London 0 2 £619 +16.75% 1
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (23.81%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) dbt
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.76%) Gradle
2 1 (4.76%) JUnit
2 1 (4.76%) Mockito
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) Project Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Test Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Business Process Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Process Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Product Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (4.76%) SimCorp Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Transition Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Transition Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) PySpark
2 3 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (9.52%) Spring
3 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.76%) Django
4 1 (4.76%) Flask
4 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) Micronaut
4 1 (4.76%) NumPy
4 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.76%) Pyramid
4 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Change Management
2 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 7 (33.33%) DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (28.57%) Migration
4 6 (28.57%) Project Management
5 5 (23.81%) BPR
5 5 (23.81%) Business Analysis
5 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
5 5 (23.81%) Data Science
5 5 (23.81%) Data Security
5 5 (23.81%) PRINCE2
5 5 (23.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (23.81%) Workflow
6 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Certification
2 5 (23.81%) PMI Certification
2 5 (23.81%) PMP
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) GDPR
2 3 (14.29%) QA
3 2 (9.52%) IFRS
3 2 (9.52%) IFRS 17
4 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) SimCorp