Operational Stability Contracts in the South West

Operational Stability
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 105 152 -
Rank change year-on-year +47 - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 6 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.16% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £514 £398 -
25th Percentile £516 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -
75th Percentile £566 - -
90th Percentile £571 £474 -
England median daily rate £525 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +31.25% -5.88% -19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the South West

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in the South West

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Dorset +5 5 £538 +34.38% 6
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Service Owner
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) jQuery
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) CAD
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 3 (50.00%) ITSM
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Service Management
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) UX Design
2 3 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle