Operational Stability Contracts

Operational Stability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 674 726
Rank change year-on-year +121 +52 -60
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 38 31 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.053% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.059% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 76
10th Percentile £400 £322 £419
25th Percentile £406 £370 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £438 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -15.66% +9.21%
75th Percentile £500 £509 £550
90th Percentile - £538 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £425 £491
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.35% +11.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability.

Hourly rate trend for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London +72 35 £468 +10.00% 8
England +106 19 £400 -5.88% 15
Scotland - 19 £500 - 2
Work from Home +119 10 £500 +8.11% 5
North of England +31 10 - - 1
North West +15 5 - -
South West - 4 £400 -
North East +8 3 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 1
London +77 1 - - 9
South East +24 1 £400 +57.79% 4

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.63%) Maximo
2 1 (2.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (68.42%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Azure
3 5 (13.16%) Serverless
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.89%) BrowserStack
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.89%) GitHub
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.26%) npm
5 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.16%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.53%) MySQL
3 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (7.89%) Big Data
4 3 (7.89%) CockroachDB
5 2 (5.26%) Power BI
6 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.63%) DB2
6 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.63%) HBase
6 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.63%) SAP HANA
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) VisualWorks
General
1 18 (47.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Military
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Developer
1 11 (28.95%) Full Stack Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Java Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Java Developer
4 6 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Consultant
7 3 (7.89%) Full Stack Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Lead
8 2 (5.26%) Python Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Specialist
9 1 (2.63%) Backend Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Big Data Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Desktop Specialist
9 1 (2.63%) Monitoring Specialist
9 1 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (42.11%) Spring
2 14 (36.84%) Spring Boot
3 13 (34.21%) JPA
3 13 (34.21%) REST
4 12 (31.58%) AngularJS
5 10 (26.32%) CSS
5 10 (26.32%) HTML
6 6 (15.79%) PySpark
7 5 (13.16%) React
7 5 (13.16%) RESTful
8 3 (7.89%) Next.js
9 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (2.63%) Kafka
9 1 (2.63%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) Agile
1 27 (71.05%) SDLC
1 27 (71.05%) Software Engineering
2 20 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 18 (47.37%) Microservices
4 15 (39.47%) Full Stack Development
5 14 (36.84%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (31.58%) Decision-Making
6 12 (31.58%) Machine Learning
7 10 (26.32%) Community of Practice
8 7 (18.42%) Test Automation
9 5 (13.16%) BDD
9 5 (13.16%) ITIL
9 5 (13.16%) TDD
10 4 (10.53%) Architectural Design
10 4 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
10 4 (10.53%) Information Architecture
10 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (7.89%) Requirements Gathering
11 3 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (57.89%) Java
2 19 (50.00%) SQL
3 13 (34.21%) TypeScript
4 8 (21.05%) Python
5 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) Groovy
7 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.63%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Grafana
2 2 (5.26%) SysTrack
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) SAP
2 3 (7.89%) Siemens
3 2 (5.26%) Citrix
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) New Relic
3 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk