Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

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
Legacy System	100	Down -20 places-20	£400	-	20 1.10%	9
System Analyst	117	New entry-	£413	-	3 0.16%	3
System Manager	98	Down -10 places-10	-	-	22 1.21%	2
System Testing	116	Down -33 places-33	£575	-4.16%	4 0.22%	2
System Engineer	97	Down -11 places-11	£358	-37.82%	23 1.26%	7
Git Distributed Version Control System	88	Down -26 places-26	£450	-10.00%	32 1.76%	20
Domain Name System (DNS)	52	Up 9 places+9	£456	-8.80%	74 4.07%	12
Management Information System	97	Down -48 places-48	£543	-7.65%	23 1.26%	8
System Integration Testing	106	Down -21 places-21	£425	-22.72%	14 0.77%	1
System Administrator (Sysadmin)	118	Down -29 places-29	£300	-	2 0.11%	1
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)	107	Down -26 places-26	£490	-7.98%	13 0.71%	3
Content Management System (CMS)	118	Down -39 places-39	£650	+85.71%	2 0.11%	2
Geographic Information System (GIS)	96	Down -19 places-19	£425	-5.55%	24 1.32%	2
System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2	101	Down -13 places-13	£650	-	19 1.04%
Quality Management System (QMS)	119	New entry-	£500	-	1 0.055%	1
Information Security Management System (ISMS)	117	Down -28 places-28	-	-	3 0.16%	5
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)	115	Down -30 places-30	£575	-1.87%	5 0.27%
Lead System Engineer	118	New entry-	-	-	2 0.11%
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)	116	Down -27 places-27	£313	-48.34%	4 0.22%
Multi-Agent System	119	New entry-	£650	-	1 0.055%
Network File System (NFS)	119	Down -35 places-35	-	-	1 0.055%
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)	118	Down -34 places-34	-	-	2 0.11%
System Delivery Manager	98	New entry-	-	-	22 1.21%
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)	116	Down -42 places-42	£410	-8.88%	4 0.22%
SAP Project System (PS)	119	New entry-	-	-	1 0.055%
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)	116	Down -42 places-42	£410	-8.88%	4 0.22%
Remedy AR System	118	Down -29 places-29	-	-	2 0.11%	1
Oracle Advanced Global Intercompany System (Oracle AGIS)	118	Down -31 places-31	-	-	2 0.11%
Signaling System No. 7 (SS7)	118	Down -30 places-30	£453	-	2 0.11%
Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM)	119	New entry-	£500	-	1 0.055%
systemd	119	New entry-	£563	-	1 0.055%