Operational Stability Contracts in Yorkshire

Operational Stability
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 86 98 126
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.59% 0.12% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.14% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £736 - -
25th Percentile £753 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +175.00%
75th Percentile £790 - -
90th Percentile £796 - -
England median daily rate £525 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +31.25% -5.88% -19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in Yorkshire

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in Yorkshire

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +19 6 £780 -
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (83.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Slack
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 6 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (100.00%) MySQL
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Jasmine
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
2 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) RESTful
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (83.33%) OpenAPI
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Batch
2 5 (83.33%) Spring Security
2 5 (83.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) BDD
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) Kernel Tuning
1 6 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (83.33%) API Design
2 5 (83.33%) Coaching
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) High Availability
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) OWASP
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Integration Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Application Security
5 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Bash
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes