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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Git	41	New entry-	£575	-	3 0.81%	6
TOWER Software	43	New entry-	-	-	1 0.27%
Software Engineer	14	Up 21 places+21	£74	-88.61%	32 8.60%	12
Software Testing	28	Up 7 places+7	£74	-	16 4.30%	5
Software Engineering	7	Up 27 places+27	£425	-26.08%	47 12.63%	15
Software Delivery	43	Down -9 places-9	-	-	1 0.27%
.NET Software Engineer	42	New entry-	-	-	2 0.54%
Enterprise Software	35	New entry-	£600	-	9 2.42%
C# Software Engineer	42	New entry-	-	-	2 0.54%
Code Quality (Software Quality)	43	New entry-	-	-	1 0.27%
Ada Software Engineer	38	New entry-	-	-	6 1.61%	3
Vector Software VectorCAST	42	New entry-	-	-	2 0.54%	2
Java Software Engineer	43	New entry-	-	-	1 0.27%	1
Software Test Engineer	40	New entry-	-	-	4 1.08%	1
Agile Software Development	10	Up 9 places+9	£550	-4.34%	39 10.48%	15
Software as a Service (SaaS)	30	Up 4 places+4	£425	-39.28%	14 3.76%	2
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	37	New entry-	£72	-	7 1.88%	5
Embedded Software Engineer	43	New entry-	-	-	1 0.27%
Principal Software Engineer	29	New entry-	£74	-	15 4.03%	4
Pivotal Software RabbitMQ	42	New entry-	£500	-	2 0.54%
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)	39	New entry-	£72	-	5 1.34%	2
Siemens PLM Software Teamcenter	38	Down -16 places-16	£54	-	6 1.61%
SC Cleared Software Engineer	42	New entry-	-	-	2 0.54%