Operational Stability Contracts in the South East

Operational Stability
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 186 210
Rank change year-on-year +31 +24 +55
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 9 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.26% 0.020% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.024% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £322
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% +24.22% -35.60%
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £460 £488
% change year-on-year +14.13% -5.64% -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,150 4,135 5,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 82.93% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,507 3,413
10th Percentile £250 £260 £263
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 328 238
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.23
Median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +108.33%
75th Percentile £50.50 £70.00 £63.56
90th Percentile £74.75 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the South East

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in the South East

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in the South East over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in the South East

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Hampshire +28 6 £600 +50.00% 2
Thames Valley - 3 £450 -
Berkshire - 2 £450 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £375 -
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (44.44%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Automotive
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Architect
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Transition Manager
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Requirements
1 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Operations Management
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Register
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) MCSE
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (55.56%) vSphere
2 4 (44.44%) NFS
2 4 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (11.11%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) NetApp
2 4 (44.44%) Splunk
2 4 (44.44%) Veeam
3 2 (22.22%) BMC
4 1 (11.11%) EMC
4 1 (11.11%) Informatica
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle