Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Operational Stability
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 134 136
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 5 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.17% 0.075% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.090% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £367 - £526
25th Percentile £392 £213 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £225 £600
Median % change year-on-year +86.11% -62.50% -
75th Percentile £481 £238 -
90th Percentile £560 - -
England median daily rate £515 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +3.00% -11.11% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,600 2,217 2,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.35% 83.63% 84.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 1,389 1,591
10th Percentile £250 £261 £250
25th Percentile £367 £375 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 69 107
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.61
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -11.11% +58.82%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.96 £53.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in the Midlands

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
East Midlands -11 3 £425 -
West Midlands -22 2 £350 +55.56% 3
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Google Gemini
1 1 (20.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Service Assurance Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Service Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Service Assurance Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Compliance Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CrewAI
1 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (20.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Logistics
1 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) MCP
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco