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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	13	Up 9 places+9	£190	-41.53%	14 8.38%	9
Software Engineer	15	Up 5 places+5	£190	-41.53%	12 7.19%	12
Software Testing	25	Up 6 places+6	-	-	2 1.20%	3
Software Engineering	12	Up 7 places+7	£190	-41.53%	15 8.98%	25
Software Delivery	25	New entry-	£380	-	2 1.20%	4
Enterprise Software	26	Up 1 place+1	£450	+5.88%	1 0.60%	3
Code Quality (Software Quality)	23	Up 2 places+2	£456	+41.47%	4 2.40%	5
Java Software Engineer	26	Down -2 places-2	-	-	1 0.60%	1
Agile Software Development	6	Up 11 places+11	£638	+50.00%	24 14.37%	47
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	23	Up 5 places+5	£190	-41.53%	4 2.40%	9
Senior Software Engineer	19	New entry-	-	-	8 4.79%	6
Embedded Software Engineer	18	New entry-	-	-	9 5.39%
Full-Stack Software Engineer	26	New entry-	-	-	1 0.60%	2
Senior Embedded Software Engineer	19	New entry-	-	-	8 4.79%
Check Point Software Technologies	26	New entry-	-	-	1 0.60%
Junior Software Engineer	25	Up 5 places+5	£190	-15.55%	2 1.20%
Embedded Linux Software Engineer	26	New entry-	-	-	1 0.60%
Junior Java Software Engineer	26	Up 4 places+4	-	-	1 0.60%