Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Operational Stability
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 179 155 189
Rank change year-on-year -24 +34 +58
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 11 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.26% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £825 - £634
90th Percentile - - £696
England median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +6.48%

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 3,567 3,482 4,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.13% 83.90% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,315 2,010 2,975
10th Percentile £265 £300 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £655 £675 £684
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 182 206
10th Percentile £13.63 £12.67 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.39 £16.31 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.60 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.42% +27.27% +36.61%
75th Percentile £35.88 £51.90 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £63.38
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 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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 19 September 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 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
North West -5 7 £800 - 5
North East -2 4 £473 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Kong
3 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
1 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
2 4 (36.36%) MySQL
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) GitLab
2 4 (36.36%) Artifactory
2 4 (36.36%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) gulp
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) Maven
2 4 (36.36%) SonarQube
2 4 (36.36%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Node.js
2 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
2 4 (36.36%) Apache CXF
2 4 (36.36%) Dropwizard
2 4 (36.36%) Express.js
2 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
2 4 (36.36%) JAX-RS
2 4 (36.36%) Kafka
2 4 (36.36%) MEAN Stack
2 4 (36.36%) MERN Stack
2 4 (36.36%) Mongoose
2 4 (36.36%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (36.36%) React
2 4 (36.36%) Sequelize
2 4 (36.36%) Spring
2 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Microservices
1 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (36.36%) Change Management
2 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven
2 4 (36.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Open Source
2 4 (36.36%) Service Management
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) ITSM
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Experience
5 1 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Observability
5 1 (9.09%) Service Migration
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
1 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media