Operational Stability Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Operational Stability
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth 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 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Stability 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £470 £450 -
% change year-on-year +4.44% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 118 97 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 71.52% 83.62% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 53 119
10th Percentile £313 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £418 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £641 £660 £805
Hampshire median daily rate £535 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 58
10th Percentile £16.11 £31.25 £28.73
25th Percentile £25.01 £35.00 £59.44
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £53.46 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.56 £72.00 £80.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £56.38 £47.50
% change year-on-year -63.26% +18.68% +8.57%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware