Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Operational Stability
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 3.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £472 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - -
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £610 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £493 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 195 275 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 91.98% 96.49% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 264 132
10th Percentile £364 £310 £356
25th Percentile £415 £358 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £415 £448
Median % change year-on-year +9.16% -7.26% -23.63%
75th Percentile £563 £488 £552
90th Percentile £653 £533 £640
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £430 £478
% change year-on-year +10.47% -9.99% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.90 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £17.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +101.80% -49.29% +14.60%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in Knutsford over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in Knutsford

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) Network Security
1 7 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Network Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 7 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Resilience Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Cyber Resilience
3 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
4 2 (28.57%) Network Design
5 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCNA
1 4 (57.14%) CCNP
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
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