Operational Stability Contracts in the North of England

Operational Stability
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 176 211
Rank change year-on-year +26 +35 +7
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 16 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.49% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £457 - -
25th Percentile £458 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £795 - £544
90th Percentile £825 - £548
England median daily rate £525 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +31.25% -5.88% -19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the North of England

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in the North of England

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in the North of England

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +19 6 £800 - 9
Yorkshire +12 6 £780 -
North East +1 4 £465 -
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (31.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Kong
2 5 (31.25%) Slack
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) MongoDB
2 11 (68.75%) MySQL
2 11 (68.75%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (37.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (37.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (75.00%) Git
2 6 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 6 (37.50%) GitLab
2 6 (37.50%) Jasmine
2 6 (37.50%) JIRA
2 6 (37.50%) JUnit
3 5 (31.25%) Artifactory
3 5 (31.25%) gulp
3 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (31.25%) Maven
3 5 (31.25%) SonarQube
3 5 (31.25%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 7 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Military
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Senior
3 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Digital Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior SQL Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Service Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Spring
1 11 (68.75%) Spring Boot
2 7 (43.75%) RESTful
3 6 (37.50%) Node.js
4 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
4 5 (31.25%) Apache CXF
4 5 (31.25%) Dropwizard
4 5 (31.25%) Express.js
4 5 (31.25%) JAX-RS
4 5 (31.25%) Kafka
4 5 (31.25%) MEAN Stack
4 5 (31.25%) MERN Stack
4 5 (31.25%) Mongoose
4 5 (31.25%) OpenAPI
4 5 (31.25%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (31.25%) React
4 5 (31.25%) Sequelize
4 5 (31.25%) Spring Batch
4 5 (31.25%) Spring Security
4 5 (31.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
1 6 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Microservices
2 7 (43.75%) BDD
2 7 (43.75%) Mentoring
2 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) TDD
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Coaching
3 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 6 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (37.50%) Kernel Tuning
3 6 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 5 (31.25%) API Design
4 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven
4 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (31.25%) High Availability
4 5 (31.25%) Open Source
4 5 (31.25%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Java
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Bash
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes