Operational Stability Contracts in the North West

Operational Stability
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 133 152
Rank change year-on-year +19 +19 +13
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 6 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £521 - -
25th Percentile £616 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +31.25% -5.88% -19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Operational Stability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Stability in the North West

Operational Stability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Stability in the North West

Operational Stability
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Stability in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Stability in the North West

Operational Stability
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Manchester +18 5 £800 - 2
Operational Stability
England

Operational Stability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (16.67%) gulp
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
2 1 (16.67%) Dropwizard
2 1 (16.67%) Express.js
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) JAX-RS
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) MEAN Stack
2 1 (16.67%) MERN Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Mongoose
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Sequelize
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Service Management
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform