Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Cheltenham

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 Feb 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Agile	7	+14	£569	+3.40%	21 19.09%	23
Problem-Solving	8	+11	£575	-20.68%	20 18.18%	24
CI/CD	9	+1	£650	+18.18%	18 16.36%	12
Containerisation	9	+8	£700	+13.82%	18 16.36%	14
DevOps	10	+9	£650	+18.18%	17 15.45%	17
Microservices	11	+13	£625	+19.04%	16 14.55%	4
Continuous Improvement	15	-	£550	-	12 10.91%	16
Test Automation	16	+1	£550	+13.40%	11 10.00%	3
Infrastructure as Code	16	+8	£555	-5.93%	11 10.00%	13
Project Delivery	17	-	£410	-	10 9.09%	9
Stakeholder Management	17	-	£550	-	10 9.09%	5
Web SSO	18	-	£475	-	9 8.18%
Migration	19	+4	£488	-9.30%	8 7.27%	2
Data Governance	20	-	-	-	7 6.36%	2
Data Centre Operations	20	-	£550	-	7 6.36%
Service Delivery	20	-	£550	-	7 6.36%	2
Site Reliability Engineering	20	+4	£550	+4.76%	7 6.36%	3
Infrastructure Engineering	20	+3	£637	+3.49%	7 6.36%	9
Digital Strategy	20	-	-	-	7 6.36%	1
Stakeholder Engagement	22	-	-	-	5 4.55%	8
Data Protection	22	+2	£525	-	5 4.55%
Sprint Planning	23	-	£563	-	4 3.64%	4
Storage Management	23	-	£628	-	4 3.64%
Decision-Making	23	+1	£550	-	4 3.64%	12
Task Automation	23	-	£550	-	4 3.64%	1
Root Cause Analysis	23	-	£550	-	4 3.64%	1
Process Improvement	23	-	-	-	4 3.64%	3
Application Packaging	23	-	£450	-	4 3.64%
Software Engineering	23	-16	£535	-19.85%	4 3.64%	22
ITSM	23	-	£488	-	4 3.64%	3
ITIL	23	-	£488	-	4 3.64%	7
Project Management	23	0	£410	-	4 3.64%	7
PRINCE2	24	-	£410	-	3 2.73%	3
Change Management	24	-	£650	-	3 2.73%	3
Scrum	24	0	£575	-	3 2.73%	6
Validation	24	-	-	-	3 2.73%	2
Mathematics	24	-	-	-	3 2.73%	6
Cybersecurity	24	-2	£484	-25.61%	3 2.73%	20
Threat Detection	24	-	-	-	3 2.73%	2
Multi-Factor Authentication	24	-	-	-	3 2.73%
DataOps	24	-	£600	-	3 2.73%
Full-Stack Development	24	0	£300	-56.36%	3 2.73%	3
Knowledge Transfer	24	0	-	-	3 2.73%
SIAM	24	-	£488	-	3 2.73%
Workshop Facilitation	24	-	-	-	3 2.73%	3
Incident Response	24	-	£600	-	3 2.73%	1
Technology Transformation	25	-	-	-	2 1.82%	1
MITRE ATT&CK	25	-	-	-	2 1.82%
Runbook	25	-	-	-	2 1.82%	2
Data Science	25	-11	-	-	2 1.82%	3