Operational Stability Contracts with Work from Home Options

Operational Stability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 454 562
Rank change year-on-year +118 +108 -103
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 10 18 61
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.065% 0.070% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.077% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 40
10th Percentile £398 £385 £425
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £498
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.04% +0.51%
75th Percentile - £538 £549
90th Percentile - £579 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,231 40,628
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.84% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,419 29,475
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 532 547
10th Percentile £15.12 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.89
Median hourly rate £40.28 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Operational Stability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Operational Stability trend for jobs with a WFH option

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Operational Stability over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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 5 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (20.00%) Big Data
1 2 (20.00%) CockroachDB
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) VisualWorks
General
1 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) PySpark
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
3 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) JPA
3 2 (20.00%) React
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) SDLC
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Community of Practice
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
6 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (20.00%) Information Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 2 (20.00%) Microservices
7 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (10.00%) DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) OO
7 1 (10.00%) OOP
7 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Smalltalk
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft