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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 315 422
Rank change year-on-year +15 +107 +153
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 10 20 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.098% 0.15% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.17% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 8
10th Percentile £205 £408 £385
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.54% -11.90%
75th Percentile £520 £500 £538
90th Percentile £544 - £579
UK median daily rate £525 £460 £513
% change year-on-year +14.13% -10.24% -2.38%

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 9,364 11,486 20,026
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.77% 87.24% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,276 7,716 14,091
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -2.33% -1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 402 481
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.52 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.77 £30.56 £25.95
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.20 £67.50
90th Percentile £71.03 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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 3 August 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Kong
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) gulp
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
1 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Military
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cutover Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate
3 1 (10.00%) Graduate Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (20.00%) Apache CXF
1 2 (20.00%) Dropwizard
1 2 (20.00%) Express.js
1 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (20.00%) JAX-RS
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
1 2 (20.00%) MEAN Stack
1 2 (20.00%) MERN Stack
1 2 (20.00%) Mongoose
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (20.00%) React
1 2 (20.00%) Sequelize
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
1 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Social Media
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) LIMS
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Open Source
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Operations Management
3 2 (20.00%) OSINT
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Social Media Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (10.00%) GxP
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) BMC
1 2 (20.00%) Sun
2 1 (10.00%) Ariba
2 1 (10.00%) LabVantage
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow