Operational Stability Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Operational Stability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 281 335 459
Rank change year-on-year +54 +124 +111
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 23 10 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.065% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.074% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 8
10th Percentile £238 £398 £385
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £520 - £538
90th Percentile £735 - £579
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +7.50% +17.65% -15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Operational Stability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Operational Stability trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Operational Stability.

Operational Stability daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Operational Stability over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Operational Stability daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (47.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Slack
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.70%) Kong
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) MongoDB
2 8 (34.78%) MySQL
2 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (26.09%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) JIRA
2 8 (34.78%) Git
3 7 (30.43%) JUnit
4 6 (26.09%) Cucumber
4 6 (26.09%) Jasmine
5 4 (17.39%) GitLab
5 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
6 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
7 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
7 2 (8.70%) gulp
7 2 (8.70%) Maven
7 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
7 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
8 1 (4.35%) Mockito
8 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
2 3 (13.04%) Military
3 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
3 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Delphi Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Python Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Graduate Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Lead
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Spring
1 9 (39.13%) Spring Boot
2 7 (30.43%) RESTful
3 6 (26.09%) OpenAPI
3 6 (26.09%) Swagger
4 5 (21.74%) Spring Batch
4 5 (21.74%) Spring Security
5 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.70%) Apache CXF
5 2 (8.70%) Express.js
5 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
5 2 (8.70%) JAX-RS
5 2 (8.70%) Kafka
5 2 (8.70%) MEAN Stack
5 2 (8.70%) MERN Stack
5 2 (8.70%) Mongoose
5 2 (8.70%) Node.js
5 2 (8.70%) PySpark
5 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (8.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (8.70%) Social Media
3 1 (4.35%) CMDB
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
1 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
2 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (39.13%) Microservices
3 8 (34.78%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
3 8 (34.78%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
4 7 (30.43%) TDD
4 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
5 6 (26.09%) API Design
5 6 (26.09%) BDD
5 6 (26.09%) Coaching
5 6 (26.09%) High Availability
5 6 (26.09%) Kernel Tuning
5 6 (26.09%) OWASP
5 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (21.74%) Change Management
7 4 (17.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 10 (43.48%) Java
3 6 (26.09%) Bash
4 4 (17.39%) C#
4 4 (17.39%) Delphi
4 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
5 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) BMC
2 2 (8.70%) Sun
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow