Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Cheshire

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	4	Up 4 places+4	£475	-0.10%	131 17.42%	23
Problem-Solving	5	Down 2 places-2	£402	-11.55%	116 15.43%	45
Continuous Improvement	6	Up 19 places+19	£468	+2.18%	105 13.96%	26
Agile	10	Down 5 places-5	£475	+8.63%	84 11.17%	18
Cybersecurity	12	Up 33 places+33	£472	-2.88%	80 10.64%	21
AI	15	Up 29 places+29	£525	+16.47%	67 8.91%	32
Customer Service	15	Up 25 places+25	£307	+97.74%	67 8.91%	19
Migration	16	Up 1 place+1	£465	+3.33%	66 8.78%	6
Data Protection	18	Up 47 places+47	£474	+6.81%	62 8.24%	3
Change Management	19	Up 7 places+7	£525	+25.67%	61 8.11%	3
CI/CD	19	Down 3 places-3	£520	+19.54%	61 8.11%	8
ITIL	20	Up 7 places+7	£446	+11.36%	58 7.71%	3
Project Delivery	23	Up 14 places+14	£500	+8.10%	52 6.91%	13
Stakeholder Engagement	23	Up 19 places+19	£475	-4.23%	52 6.91%	9
Validation	24	Up 20 places+20	£446	-16.94%	51 6.78%	20
Service Management	26	Up 17 places+17	£454	-0.60%	48 6.38%	2
Incident Response	26	Up 18 places+18	£475	+9.82%	48 6.38%	2
Analytics	26	Up 9 places+9	£550	+30.95%	48 6.38%	20
DevOps	28	Down 14 places-14	£475	+10.34%	46 6.12%	13
Infrastructure Engineering	32	Up 41 places+41	£474	+45.84%	41 5.45%	5
SIEM	32	Up 33 places+33	£569	+28.95%	41 5.45%
Cloud Security	34	Up 19 places+19	£522	+8.64%	38 5.05%	3
Incident Management	34	Up 32 places+32	£345	-31.10%	38 5.05%
Infrastructure as Code	36	Up 29 places+29	£550	+23.04%	36 4.79%	4
ERP	39	Up 14 places+14	£550	+10.00%	33 4.39%	3
Project Management	39	Down 14 places-14	£448	-5.78%	33 4.39%	16
Customer Experience	40	Up 21 places+21	£540	+16.75%	32 4.26%	10
Generative AI	40	Up 19 places+19	£550	+14.58%	32 4.26%	8
User Stories	41	Up 21 places+21	£515	-3.91%	31 4.12%	5
Roadmaps	41	Down 11 places-11	£533	+8.23%	31 4.12%	17
Process Improvement	41	Down 6 places-6	£500	-	31 4.12%	4
ITSM	43	Down 2 places-2	£275	-38.20%	29 3.86%	3
Observability	44	Up 13 places+13	£513	+42.75%	28 3.72%	1
Computer Science	45	Down 4 places-4	£531	+52.53%	27 3.59%	8
Risk Management	45	Up 2 places+2	£474	-3.65%	27 3.59%	5
Decision-Making	45	Down 3 places-3	£474	+0.85%	27 3.59%	16
Scrum	46	Down 15 places-15	£537	+26.80%	26 3.46%	1
CRM	47	Up 18 places+18	£510	+42.45%	25 3.32%	12
Configuration Management	47	Up 24 places+24	£456	+18.75%	25 3.32%
Root Cause Analysis	48	Up 19 places+19	£525	+54.41%	24 3.19%	2
User Acceptance Testing	49	Down 8 places-8	£512	+13.21%	23 3.06%	5
SDLC	49	Up 2 places+2	£474	-1.25%	23 3.06%	2
Waterfall	49	Up 15 places+15	£488	-6.47%	23 3.06%	5
PRINCE2	50	Up 20 places+20	£525	-16.00%	22 2.93%	3
Information Security	50	Up 11 places+11	£425	+0.29%	22 2.93%	4
Identity Access Management	51	Up 10 places+10	£472	+7.88%	21 2.79%
Requirements Gathering	51	Up 5 places+5	£525	+11.94%	21 2.79%	4
Security Operations	51	Up 16 places+16	£472	+4.88%	21 2.79%
Cryptography	52	Up 15 places+15	£575	+33.72%	20 2.66%
Data Analysis	52	Up 13 places+13	£525	+6.70%	20 2.66%	7