Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Operational Stability
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.063% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £447 £528 £533
% change year-on-year -15.26% -0.94% -3.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,343 917 1,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.52% 84.75% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 404 758
10th Percentile £195 £241 £232
25th Percentile £350 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £676 £695 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 168 364
10th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.44
Median hourly rate £20.09 £37.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +70.45% -5.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Operational Stability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in the East of England

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Operational Stability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £525 - 1
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Network Services Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 1 (100.00%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) jetNEXUS