Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in the North East

Operational Stability
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 29 30
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +30
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 4 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.38% 1.81% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.02% 1.51%
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 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +6.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 243 248 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.79% 89.86% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 105 150
10th Percentile £215 £289 £313
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £731 £711
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 9
10th Percentile £11.60 £13.75 £16.85
25th Percentile £13.75 £15.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.30 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.89% +48.85% +14.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £33.75
90th Percentile £42.40 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the North East

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Tyne and Wear -8 4 £473 - 1
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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