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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	43	Down -21 places-21	£425	-10.05%	20 3.63%	10
Software Engineer	48	Down -17 places-17	£400	-	15 2.72%	30
Software Testing	41	Down -10 places-10	£450	-	22 3.99%	9
Software Engineering	19	Up 9 places+9	£593	+28.80%	52 9.44%	57
Software Delivery	57	Down -27 places-27	£427	-6.52%	6 1.09%	5
Software Developer	50	Down -20 places-20	£475	-	13 2.36%	15
Software Architect	38	New entry-	-	-	25 4.54%	10
Software Packaging	62	New entry-	£475	-	1 0.18%
Enterprise Software	59	Down -30 places-30	£463	-2.63%	4 0.73%	3
Software Architecture	58	New entry-	-	-	5 0.91%	3
Code Quality (Software Quality)	48	Down -17 places-17	£453	-17.63%	15 2.72%	3
Lead Software Engineer	61	New entry-	-	-	2 0.36%
Java Software Engineer	56	New entry-	£439	-	7 1.27%	2
Software Test Engineer	57	New entry-	-	-	6 1.09%
Android Software Development Kit (SDK)	60	New entry-	£450	-	3 0.54%	1
Lead Software Developer	60	New entry-	£575	-	3 0.54%
Agile Software Development	3	Down -1 place-1	£453	-7.07%	160 29.04%	59
Software as a Service (SaaS)	52	Down -26 places-26	£494	-7.53%	11 2.00%	11
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	38	Down -7 places-7	£453	+24.96%	25 4.54%	16
iOS Software Development	59	New entry-	£450	-	4 0.73%	1
Check Point Software Technologies	62	New entry-	-	-	1 0.18%
Android Software Development	59	New entry-	£450	-	4 0.73%	1
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	54	New entry-	£452	-	9 1.63%
Atlassian Software Systems	61	Down -34 places-34	-	-	2 0.36%	1
SmartBear Software SoapUI	60	New entry-	£350	-	3 0.54%
Principal Software Developer	62	New entry-	-	-	1 0.18%	3