Operational Stability Contracts in London

Operational Stability
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 372 468
Rank change year-on-year +15 +96 +85
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 18 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.025% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.028% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 4
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £413 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.51% +13.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £713 £550 £506
90th Percentile £813 - £608
England median daily rate £525 £460 £525
% change year-on-year +14.13% -12.38% -

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 12,568 14,469 21,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.18% 88.87% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,414 10,214 15,860
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 195 231
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.15 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.50 £22.00 £24.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% -12.35% +12.50%
75th Percentile £49.63 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £71.88 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in London

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in London

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in London over the 6 months to 4 August 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 4 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
Central London - 1 £800 - 4
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
2 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Cutover Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) SimCorp Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) PySpark
2 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.11%) CSS
2 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (5.56%) Django
3 1 (5.56%) Flask
3 1 (5.56%) NumPy
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.56%) Pyramid
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile
1 8 (44.44%) Change Management
2 6 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
4 4 (22.22%) BPR
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 4 (22.22%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Coaching
5 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Data Development
5 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
1 4 (22.22%) PMI Certification
1 4 (22.22%) PMP
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) SimCorp