Operational Stability Contracts in the North of England

Operational Stability
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Operational Stability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Stability over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 208 221
Rank change year-on-year +33 +13 -34
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 10 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.17% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 11
10th Percentile - - £188
25th Percentile - £513 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile - £544 £625
90th Percentile - £548 -
England median daily rate £400 £438 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% -16.67% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Operational Stability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,026 5,268 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.69% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,659 4,646
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 257
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.45%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £29.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.07
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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
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 5 May 2024. 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 +27 5 - -
North East +11 3 - - 1
Yorkshire +21 2 - -
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) BrowserStack
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (40.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Full Stack Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Coordinator
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) Next.js
2 3 (30.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) BDD
1 5 (50.00%) Microservices
1 5 (50.00%) SDLC
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (50.00%) TDD
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Full Stack Development
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (30.00%) Scalability Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Smart Manufacturing
2 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
1 3 (30.00%) Siemens