Operational Stability Contracts in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Operational Stability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Stability over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 442 490
Rank change year-on-year +74 +48 -67
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 35 15 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.063% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.070% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 19
10th Percentile £400 £295 £190
25th Percentile £403 £322 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.15% +7.07%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £588
90th Percentile - £540 £625
UK median daily rate £462 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.67% -10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Operational Stability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,507 21,404 27,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.51% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,460 14,856 19,229
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,060 1,308 1,363
10th Percentile £12.34 £11.00 £12.03
25th Percentile £15.19 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Scotland - 19 £500 - 1
North of England +30 10 - - 3
North West +17 5 - - 1
South West - 4 £400 -
North East +12 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +22 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
South East +15 1 £400 +57.79% 3
Operational Stability
UK

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (17.14%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Serverless
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.57%) BrowserStack
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (8.57%) GitHub
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.71%) npm
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.43%) MySQL
3 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.57%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (8.57%) Big Data
4 3 (8.57%) CockroachDB
5 2 (5.71%) Power BI
6 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.86%) DB2
6 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.86%) HBase
6 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (48.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Developer
1 11 (31.43%) Full Stack Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Java Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Consultant
6 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead
7 2 (5.71%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) Backend Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Monitoring Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) Service Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (45.71%) Spring
2 14 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 13 (37.14%) JPA
3 13 (37.14%) REST
4 12 (34.29%) AngularJS
5 10 (28.57%) CSS
5 10 (28.57%) HTML
6 6 (17.14%) PySpark
7 5 (14.29%) React
7 5 (14.29%) RESTful
8 3 (8.57%) Next.js
9 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (2.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Agile
2 26 (74.29%) SDLC
2 26 (74.29%) Software Engineering
3 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 18 (51.43%) Microservices
5 15 (42.86%) Full Stack Development
6 14 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 12 (34.29%) Machine Learning
8 11 (31.43%) Decision-Making
9 10 (28.57%) Community of Practice
10 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
11 5 (14.29%) BDD
11 5 (14.29%) TDD
12 4 (11.43%) Architectural Design
12 4 (11.43%) Continuous Delivery
12 4 (11.43%) Information Architecture
12 4 (11.43%) ITIL
13 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 3 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
13 3 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Java
2 19 (54.29%) SQL
3 13 (37.14%) TypeScript
4 7 (20.00%) Python
5 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) Groovy
7 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.86%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Grafana
2 2 (5.71%) SysTrack
3 1 (2.86%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (2.86%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) SAP
1 3 (8.57%) Siemens
2 2 (5.71%) Citrix
2 2 (5.71%) New Relic
2 2 (5.71%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Splunk