Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Operational Stability
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 80 97
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.28% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
North West median daily rate £393 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,242 965 1,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.25% 91.30% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 637 953
10th Percentile £309 £294 £313
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £574 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 34 75
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.92 £20.50 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -34.18%
75th Percentile £67.19 £54.25 £60.63
90th Percentile £77.88 £63.50 £76.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year +38.46% +37.65% -37.04%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in Manchester

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Operational Stability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Vue
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) BEM - Block Element Modifier
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media