Operational Stability Contracts in Scotland

Operational Stability
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 - 174
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 20 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.93% - 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% - 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £421 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.05%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £460 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.22% -14.29% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in Scotland

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in Scotland

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Glasgow - 20 £500 - 5
Operational Stability
UK

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 9 (45.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Full Stack Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Java Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Lead
6 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Angular Developer
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (70.00%) AngularJS
1 14 (70.00%) Spring
2 10 (50.00%) REST
2 10 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 9 (45.00%) CSS
3 9 (45.00%) HTML
3 9 (45.00%) JPA
4 6 (30.00%) PySpark
5 5 (25.00%) React
6 1 (5.00%) J2EE
6 1 (5.00%) RESTful
6 1 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Public Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
1 19 (95.00%) SDLC
2 18 (90.00%) Software Engineering
3 14 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (70.00%) Full Stack Development
4 13 (65.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (65.00%) Machine Learning
5 12 (60.00%) Decision-Making
6 9 (45.00%) Microservices
7 6 (30.00%) Community of Practice
8 1 (5.00%) Clean Code
8 1 (5.00%) Coaching
8 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Java
2 13 (65.00%) SQL
3 9 (45.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (30.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript