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
SAS System	124	Down -17 places-17	-	-	1 0.042%	6
System Tester	124	New entry-	-	-	1 0.042%
Legacy System	78	Up 11 places+11	£600	-11.11%	47 1.97%	19
System Analyst	109	Up 1 place+1	£675	+51.51%	16 0.67%	14
System Manager	120	New entry-	£275	-	5 0.21%	6
System Testing	120	Down -22 places-22	£525	-25.00%	5 0.21%	3
System Engineer	121	Down -7 places-7	£469	+36.06%	4 0.17%	4
Content Management System (CMS)	111	Down -12 places-12	£513	+34.86%	14 0.59%	17
Dialogue System	124	Down -9 places-9	-	-	1 0.042%	1
System Architect	124	Down -9 places-9	£800	+3.22%	1 0.042%
Citrix Systems	103	Down -8 places-8	£413	+17.85%	22 0.92%	5
Git Distributed Version Control System	65	Down -11 places-11	£481	-16.30%	60 2.52%	47
Domain Name System (DNS)	96	Down -20 places-20	£475	-13.63%	29 1.22%	19
Management Information System	108	Down -26 places-26	£488	-17.85%	17 0.71%	28
System Integration Testing	111	Down -4 places-4	£595	+3.93%	14 0.59%	10
System Administrator (Sysadmin)	123	Down -11 places-11	-	-	2 0.084%	1
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)	112	Down -25 places-25	£240	-12.72%	13 0.55%	4
Senior System Engineer	124	New entry-	£400	-	1 0.042%	5
Geographic Information System (GIS)	124	Down -9 places-9	-	-	1 0.042%	5
Business System Analyst	119	Down -7 places-7	£675	+14.89%	6 0.25%	1
System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2	124	Down -12 places-12	£650	-13.44%	1 0.042%	9
Business System Manager	122	New entry-	£475	-	3 0.13%	1
Information Security Management System (ISMS)	124	Down -12 places-12	-	-	1 0.042%	3
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)	121	Down -8 places-8	£725	+18.75%	4 0.17%	4
Learning Management System	122	Down -10 places-10	-	-	3 0.13%	2
Finance System Manager	123	New entry-	-	-	2 0.084%	1
Senior System Analyst	124	Down -9 places-9	£675	+72.63%	1 0.042%	1
Multi-Agent System	122	New entry-	£600	-	3 0.13%	4
Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)	120	New entry-	£463	-	5 0.21%	1
Network File System (NFS)	122	Down -7 places-7	£465	-30.59%	3 0.13%	1
IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS)	121	Down -8 places-8	-	-	4 0.17%	1
Electronic (or Enterprise) Document and Records Management System (EDRMS)	124	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.042%	4
Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)	123	New entry-	£488	-	2 0.084%
Headless Content Management System (Headless CMS)	124	Down -12 places-12	-	-	1 0.042%
Junior System Administrator	123	New entry-	-	-	2 0.084%
NetApp Data ONTAP Operating System, including Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT)	123	New entry-	£465	-	2 0.084%
Integrated Workplace Management System	124	New entry-	-	-	1 0.042%
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)	124	New entry-	£413	-	1 0.042%