Operational Stability Job Trends in Lancashire

Operational Stability
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 2 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 0.16% - 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £35,920
25th Percentile £48,289 - £41,339
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 - £62,783
75th Percentile £55,972 - £67,968
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £52,130 £45,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +15.84% -28.32% -10.31%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Operational Stability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,032 638 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 80.94% 93.82% 78.31%
Number of salaries quoted 335 375 520
10th Percentile £25,875 £36,450 £27,975
25th Percentile £31,825 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £50,890 £46,728
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +8.91% +3.84%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,081 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,264 £66,606 £75,772
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Operational Stability
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Operational Stability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Stability within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Blackpool - 2 £52,130 -
Operational Stability
North West

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL