Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Operational Stability
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 25 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +34
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 4 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.69% 2.70% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.91% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £458 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.82%
75th Percentile £491 - £738
90th Percentile £510 - -
North East median daily rate £473 - £725
% change year-on-year - - +31.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 204 172 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 86.08% 92.97% 84.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 81 103
10th Percentile £200 £325 £350
25th Percentile £364 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -6.86% -2.86%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £618
90th Percentile £624 £675 £720
North East median daily rate £465 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 6
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +22.06%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £18.09 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -39.25% +48.85% +14.29%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in Tyne and Wear

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Operational Stability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 20 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -7 4 £473 - 1
Operational Stability
North East

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Kong
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) gulp
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Maven
2 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (75.00%) Apache CXF
1 3 (75.00%) Dropwizard
1 3 (75.00%) Express.js
1 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (75.00%) JAX-RS
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) MEAN Stack
1 3 (75.00%) MERN Stack
1 3 (75.00%) Mongoose
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Sequelize
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google