Operational Stability Contracts in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 285 363 447
Rank change year-on-year +78 +84 +33
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 51 36 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.17% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.20% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 16 9
10th Percentile £368 £400 £295
25th Percentile £456 £409 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +17.65% -10.15%
75th Percentile £575 - £538
90th Percentile £779 £511 £540
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +7.50% +17.65% -15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Scotland +15 21 £550 +10.00% 23
North of England +26 16 £615 - 4
South East +52 7 £450 +12.50% 7
South West +47 6 £538 +34.38% 14
North West +19 6 £800 - 4
Yorkshire +12 6 £780 -
North East +1 4 £465 -
Midlands +20 1 - - 2
West Midlands +12 1 - - 2
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 22 (43.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) AWS
2 12 (23.53%) Serverless
3 5 (9.80%) Kong
3 5 (9.80%) Slack
4 3 (5.88%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.92%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) MongoDB
2 11 (21.57%) MySQL
2 11 (21.57%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (17.65%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (17.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 23 (45.10%) JIRA
2 12 (23.53%) Bitbucket
2 12 (23.53%) Git
3 9 (17.65%) JUnit
4 6 (11.76%) Cucumber
4 6 (11.76%) GitLab
4 6 (11.76%) Jasmine
5 5 (9.80%) Artifactory
5 5 (9.80%) gulp
5 5 (9.80%) Jenkins
5 5 (9.80%) Maven
5 5 (9.80%) SonarQube
5 5 (9.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (7.84%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 15 (29.41%) Finance
2 7 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Banking
5 3 (5.88%) Military
6 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Automotive
7 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Developer
2 10 (19.61%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Java Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (7.84%) Delphi Developer
8 4 (7.84%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Analyst
9 3 (5.88%) Lead
10 2 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Python Data Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) Python Developer
10 2 (3.92%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.92%) SQL Developer
11 1 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 1 (1.96%) Core Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) Spring
2 11 (21.57%) Spring Boot
3 10 (19.61%) AngularJS
3 10 (19.61%) RESTful
4 8 (15.69%) React
5 6 (11.76%) CSS
5 6 (11.76%) Node.js
6 5 (9.80%) Apache CXF
6 5 (9.80%) Dropwizard
6 5 (9.80%) Express.js
6 5 (9.80%) Hibernate
6 5 (9.80%) JAX-RS
6 5 (9.80%) Kafka
6 5 (9.80%) MEAN Stack
6 5 (9.80%) Mongoose
6 5 (9.80%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (9.80%) Sequelize
6 5 (9.80%) Spring Batch
6 5 (9.80%) Spring Security
6 5 (9.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 5 (9.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.92%) Social Media
4 1 (1.96%) CMDB
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Linux
2 7 (13.73%) Windows
3 6 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (43.14%) Continuous Delivery
2 18 (35.29%) Containerisation
3 16 (31.37%) Agile
4 15 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 15 (29.41%) Microservices
5 14 (27.45%) Software Engineering
6 12 (23.53%) Change Management
6 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (19.61%) Computer Science
8 10 (19.61%) Mathematics
9 9 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (15.69%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (15.69%) ITIL
11 7 (13.73%) BDD
11 7 (13.73%) Open Source
11 7 (13.73%) Service Management
11 7 (13.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) SQL
2 15 (29.41%) Java
3 14 (27.45%) Python
4 12 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 6 (11.76%) Bash
6 5 (9.80%) PL/SQL
7 4 (7.84%) C#
7 4 (7.84%) Delphi
8 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 10 (19.61%) AWS Certified Developer
2 10 (19.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.88%) Degree
5 3 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (35.29%) Terraform
2 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (3.92%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Oracle
1 6 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 3 (5.88%) Splunk
4 2 (3.92%) BMC
4 2 (3.92%) Sun
5 1 (1.96%) Informatica