Operational Stability Contracts

Operational Stability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 656 725
Rank change year-on-year +123 +69 -44
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 38 31 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.054% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.061% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 76
10th Percentile £400 £322 £419
25th Percentile £406 £384 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £550
90th Percentile - £620 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -15.00% +22.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operational Stability.

Hourly rate trend for Operational Stability in the UK

Operational Stability
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
UK excluding London +79 35 £468 +10.00% 9
England +100 19 £400 -8.57% 15
Scotland - 19 £500 - 4
Work from Home +102 11 £500 +8.11% 6
North of England +34 10 - - 2
North West +21 5 - - 1
South West - 4 £400 -
North East +7 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
London +88 1 - - 10
South East +32 1 £400 +57.79% 3

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.63%) Maximo
2 1 (2.63%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (68.42%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Azure
3 5 (13.16%) Serverless
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.89%) BrowserStack
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.89%) GitHub
4 3 (7.89%) npm
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) NoSQL
2 5 (13.16%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.53%) MySQL
3 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (7.89%) Big Data
4 3 (7.89%) CockroachDB
5 2 (5.26%) Power BI
6 1 (2.63%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.63%) VisualWorks
General
1 18 (47.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Military
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Developer
2 11 (28.95%) Full Stack Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Java Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Java Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Lead
8 2 (5.26%) Python Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Angular Developer
9 1 (2.63%) AWS Software Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Desktop Specialist
9 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 1 (2.63%) IT Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Monitoring Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) Spring
2 14 (36.84%) Spring Boot
3 13 (34.21%) AngularJS
3 13 (34.21%) JPA
3 13 (34.21%) REST
4 10 (26.32%) CSS
4 10 (26.32%) HTML
5 6 (15.79%) PySpark
5 6 (15.79%) React
6 5 (13.16%) RESTful
7 3 (7.89%) Next.js
8 1 (2.63%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) SDLC
1 28 (73.68%) Software Engineering
2 27 (71.05%) Agile
3 20 (52.63%) CI/CD
4 17 (44.74%) Microservices
5 16 (42.11%) Full Stack Development
6 15 (39.47%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (34.21%) Decision-Making
7 13 (34.21%) Machine Learning
8 10 (26.32%) Community of Practice
9 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
10 5 (13.16%) BDD
10 5 (13.16%) ITIL
10 5 (13.16%) TDD
11 4 (10.53%) Architectural Design
11 4 (10.53%) Information Architecture
11 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 3 (7.89%) Requirements Gathering
12 3 (7.89%) Smart Manufacturing
12 3 (7.89%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 22 (57.89%) Java
2 20 (52.63%) SQL
3 13 (34.21%) TypeScript
4 7 (18.42%) Python
5 4 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.63%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Grafana
2 2 (5.26%) SysTrack
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) SAP
2 3 (7.89%) Siemens
3 2 (5.26%) Citrix
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) New Relic
3 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.63%) IBM