Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Operational Stability
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 23 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +29
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 4 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.83% 3.09% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 3.31% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £458 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.82%
75th Percentile £491 - £738
90th Percentile £510 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £473 - £725
% change year-on-year - - +31.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 151 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 86.30% 93.21% 85.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 73 93
10th Percentile £200 £317 £350
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £549 £590 £625
90th Percentile £630 £670 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £463 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.63% -6.86% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 6
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +22.06%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in Newcastle upon Tyne

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Operational Stability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Kong
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) gulp
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Maven
2 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) Apache CXF
1 3 (75.00%) Dropwizard
1 3 (75.00%) Express.js
1 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (75.00%) JAX-RS
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) MEAN Stack
1 3 (75.00%) MERN Stack
1 3 (75.00%) Mongoose
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Sequelize
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google