Operational Stability Contracts in Scotland

Operational Stability
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 106 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 22 19 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.33% 0.90% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.02% -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 0
10th Percentile £287 £417 -
25th Percentile £368 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £462 £450
% change year-on-year +8.23% +2.67% -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,541 1,854 2,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.51% 87.41% 92.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 1,152 1,729
10th Percentile £263 £219 £250
25th Percentile £370 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £640
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 96 54
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.53 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.34 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +33.34% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in Scotland

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in Scotland

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in Scotland

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 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
Glasgow -8 22 £550 +10.00% 3
Operational Stability
UK

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (40.91%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Serverless
3 5 (22.73%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Apache Cassandra
1 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
1 5 (22.73%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Bitbucket
1 9 (40.91%) JIRA
2 5 (22.73%) JUnit
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Python Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Core Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Change Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Graduate
7 1 (4.55%) IT Technician
7 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) React
1 6 (27.27%) Spring
2 5 (22.73%) CSS
3 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.09%) PySpark
5 1 (4.55%) Node.js
5 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Social Media
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Continuous Delivery
2 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
2 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) SDLC
4 7 (31.82%) Computer Science
4 7 (31.82%) Mathematics
4 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (27.27%) Microservices
6 5 (22.73%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (22.73%) Community of Practice
6 5 (22.73%) Front End Development
6 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
6 5 (22.73%) Micro Frontends
6 5 (22.73%) Performance Testing
6 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
6 5 (22.73%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) AWS Certification
2 7 (31.82%) AWS Certified Developer
2 7 (31.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Terraform
2 6 (27.27%) Grafana
3 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Dynatrace
1 5 (22.73%) Splunk
2 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) Sun