Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 349 409
Rank change year-on-year +30 +60 +94
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 49 29 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.16% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.19% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 11 7
10th Percentile £350 £418 £413
25th Percentile £368 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £435 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -27.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £474 -
90th Percentile £650 £500 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.13 - -
Median hourly rate £23.75 - -
75th Percentile £24.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.75 - -

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 13,808 14,890 18,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.26% 83.05% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,304 8,562 12,469
10th Percentile £235 £242 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,447 1,212 1,260
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.04 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.67% +1.18% +84.18%
75th Percentile £42.50 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.53%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Operational Stability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Operational Stability

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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Operational Stability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Operational Stability

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 19 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
Scotland +5 24 £368 -14.42% 9
North of England -24 11 £480 - 6
South East +27 9 £600 +26.32% 7
North West -5 7 £800 - 5
North East -2 4 £473 - 1
Midlands -12 3 £463 -
South West +16 2 £413 -10.33% 6
West Midlands - 2 £350 -
East Midlands -5 1 £575 -
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 4 (8.16%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 8 (16.33%) BlazeMeter
3 4 (8.16%) Azure
3 4 (8.16%) Kong
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
4 2 (4.08%) Serverless
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (2.04%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.04%) Google Gemini
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.04%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (8.16%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) LAN
2 1 (2.04%) NAS
2 1 (2.04%) SAN
2 1 (2.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) MongoDB
1 16 (32.65%) NoSQL
2 8 (16.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (8.16%) MySQL
3 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) JUnit
2 6 (12.24%) JIRA
3 5 (10.20%) GitLab
4 4 (8.16%) Artifactory
4 4 (8.16%) Git
4 4 (8.16%) gulp
4 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.16%) Maven
4 4 (8.16%) SonarQube
4 4 (8.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.12%) Vite
6 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (26.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (18.37%) Finance
3 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Military
6 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Retail
7 1 (2.04%) Automotive
7 1 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Developer
2 11 (22.45%) Java Developer
3 10 (20.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Lead
5 6 (12.24%) Architect
6 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (8.16%) React Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Support Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) VMware Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Core Java Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior
9 2 (4.08%) Service Manager
10 1 (2.04%) .NET Developer
10 1 (2.04%) Graduate
10 1 (2.04%) Oracle Developer
10 1 (2.04%) Software Developer
10 1 (2.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.69%) React
1 17 (34.69%) Spring
2 11 (22.45%) AngularJS
3 9 (18.37%) Spring Boot
4 8 (16.33%) CSS
5 7 (14.29%) Node.js
6 6 (12.24%) Kafka
7 4 (8.16%) Apache CXF
7 4 (8.16%) Dropwizard
7 4 (8.16%) Express.js
7 4 (8.16%) Hibernate
7 4 (8.16%) JAX-RS
7 4 (8.16%) MEAN Stack
7 4 (8.16%) MERN Stack
7 4 (8.16%) Mongoose
7 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (8.16%) Sequelize
8 3 (6.12%) Next.js
9 2 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (4.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.20%) Public Cloud
3 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.08%) Social Media
6 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.04%) CMDB
6 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.04%) NHS
6 1 (2.04%) Replication
6 1 (2.04%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.16%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.04%) Linux
4 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) Microservices
2 17 (34.69%) Agile
3 15 (30.61%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.53%) SDLC
5 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
6 11 (22.45%) Continuous Delivery
6 11 (22.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (22.45%) Micro Frontends
7 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (18.37%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (18.37%) Change Management
8 9 (18.37%) Front End Development
8 9 (18.37%) Machine Learning
8 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.33%) Community of Practice
9 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
9 8 (16.33%) Performance Testing
9 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (16.33%) Unit Testing
9 8 (16.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) Java
2 15 (30.61%) JavaScript
3 10 (20.41%) SQL
4 8 (16.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.12%) Python
6 1 (2.04%) Bash
6 1 (2.04%) C#
6 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.16%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (8.16%) MCSE
4 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.08%) Degree
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.04%) MCP
6 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.20%) Docker
2 5 (10.20%) vSphere
3 4 (8.16%) NFS
3 4 (8.16%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.04%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Grafana
2 9 (18.37%) Terraform
3 7 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.04%) Ansible
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.04%) HP ALM
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.04%) SCCM
4 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.04%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Splunk
2 8 (16.33%) Dynatrace
3 6 (12.24%) VMware
4 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.20%) NetApp
5 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
5 4 (8.16%) Veeam
6 1 (2.04%) Cisco
6 1 (2.04%) EMC
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) HP
6 1 (2.04%) Informatica
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle
6 1 (2.04%) Virgin Media