Operational Stability Contracts in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 422 482
Rank change year-on-year +59 +60 -44
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 36 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.070% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.079% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 19
10th Percentile £400 £308 £190
25th Percentile £403 £345 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.00% +22.40%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £588
90th Percentile - £603 £625
UK median daily rate £462 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.67% -14.29% +8.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in the UK excluding London

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Scotland - 19 £500 - 8
North of England +28 11 - - 1
North West +19 5 - - 1
South West +12 4 £400 -30.43% 1
North East +6 4 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
South East +10 1 £400 +57.79% 2
Operational Stability
UK

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 25 (69.44%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 6 (16.67%) Serverless
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (11.11%) BrowserStack
4 4 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub
5 3 (8.33%) npm
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 6 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 5 (13.89%) MySQL
3 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (8.33%) Big Data
4 3 (8.33%) CockroachDB
5 2 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Cypress.io
General
1 18 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Developer
1 12 (33.33%) Full Stack Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Java Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Angular Developer
8 1 (2.78%) AWS Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Specialist
8 1 (2.78%) Backend Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Desktop Specialist
8 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 1 (2.78%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (47.22%) Spring
2 14 (38.89%) Spring Boot
3 13 (36.11%) AngularJS
3 13 (36.11%) JPA
3 13 (36.11%) REST
4 10 (27.78%) CSS
4 10 (27.78%) HTML
5 7 (19.44%) React
6 6 (16.67%) PySpark
6 6 (16.67%) RESTful
7 4 (11.11%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (77.78%) Agile
1 28 (77.78%) SDLC
1 28 (77.78%) Software Engineering
2 21 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 18 (50.00%) Microservices
4 17 (47.22%) Full Stack Development
5 15 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (36.11%) Machine Learning
7 12 (33.33%) Decision-Making
8 10 (27.78%) Community of Practice
9 6 (16.67%) BDD
9 6 (16.67%) TDD
10 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
11 4 (11.11%) Architectural Design
11 4 (11.11%) Information Architecture
11 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (11.11%) ITIL
12 3 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
12 3 (8.33%) Smart Manufacturing
12 3 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) Java
2 21 (58.33%) SQL
3 14 (38.89%) TypeScript
4 6 (16.67%) Python
5 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (5.56%) SysTrack
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) SAP
1 3 (8.33%) Siemens
2 2 (5.56%) Citrix
2 2 (5.56%) New Relic
2 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft