Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Edinburgh

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	19	Up 26 places+26	£475	-5.23%	60 9.23%	3
Data Protection Act	26	Down 8 places-8	£430	+7.56%	50 7.69%
Product Ownership	41	No change0	£533	+12.10%	29 4.46%	3
Data Centre	52	Up 6 places+6	£215	-49.41%	18 2.77%	1
Onboarding	53	Down 4 places-4	£280	-6.58%	17 2.62%	10
Management Information System	55	Down 7 places-7	£400	+62.51%	15 2.31%	9
AI Agents	57	Up 7 places+7	£513	+21.30%	13 2.00%	4
Legacy Systems	60	Down 11 places-11	£450	-5.26%	10 1.54%	2
Mainframe	61	Up 4 places+4	£600	-	9 1.38%
Mobile App	61	Up 2 places+2	£400	-15.78%	9 1.38%	2
Enterprise Software	61	Up 3 places+3	£663	-	9 1.38%	3
PKI	61	Down 3 places-3	£563	+4.65%	9 1.38%	3
Hybrid Cloud	61	Up 4 places+4	£623	+31.05%	9 1.38%	2
Enterprise Storage	61	New entry-	£425	-	9 1.38%	2
CMDB	62	Up 2 places+2	£500	-	8 1.23%
Legacy Applications	65	Down 4 places-4	£475	+13.43%	5 0.77%
Clustering	65	New entry-	£600	-	5 0.77%
IVR	65	New entry-	£543	-	5 0.77%
Driving Licence	65	Down 1 place-1	£235	+38.23%	5 0.77%	6
NHS	65	Down 2 places-2	£650	+109.67%	5 0.77%	1
Self-Motivation	65	Down 14 places-14	£438	+130.26%	5 0.77%	9
Cyber Threat	66	Down 3 places-3	£525	-4.54%	4 0.62%	6
Distributed Systems	67	Down 10 places-10	£475	+18.75%	3 0.46%	1
Data Structures	67	Down 11 places-11	£725	+41.46%	3 0.46%	2
Web Conferencing	67	Down 8 places-8	£500	+7.40%	3 0.46%
Virtual Team	67	Down 10 places-10	-	-	3 0.46%
Chip and PIN	67	New entry-	-	-	3 0.46%
Freedom of Information	68	Down 12 places-12	-	-	2 0.31%
Data Fabric	68	New entry-	£600	-	2 0.31%
Blockchain	68	New entry-	£600	-	2 0.31%
Learning Management System	68	Down 6 places-6	£228	-	2 0.31%
Security Posture	68	Down 3 places-3	-	-	2 0.31%	2
Operational Technology	68	New entry-	£550	-	2 0.31%	2
Microsoft Licensing	68	New entry-	£450	-	2 0.31%
Enterprise Cloud	68	New entry-	£600	-	2 0.31%
Greenfield Project	68	Down 6 places-6	-	-	2 0.31%
Renewable Energy	68	Down 6 places-6	£475	+46.15%	2 0.31%	1
IBM Mainframe	69	New entry-	£800	-	1 0.15%
Reference Data	69	New entry-	£410	-	1 0.15%
FMCG	69	New entry-	£750	-	1 0.15%
Mobile Banking	69	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%
Security Operations Centre	69	Down 4 places-4	-	-	1 0.15%	1
Low-Code	69	Down 4 places-4	-	-	1 0.15%
Distributed Architecture	69	Down 4 places-4	£475	+18.75%	1 0.15%
e-Learning	69	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%
Algorithms	69	Down 10 places-10	-	-	1 0.15%	6
Public Cloud	69	Down 9 places-9	£650	+54.76%	1 0.15%
Derivative	69	Down 7 places-7	£450	+5.88%	1 0.15%	1
OTC Derivatives	69	Down 5 places-5	£450	+5.88%	1 0.15%
SWIFT Messaging Network	69	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%