Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	4	Up 12 places+12	£550	+2.32%	8,322 17.76%	4,646
Agile	6	Down 2 places-2	£525	-	7,358 15.70%	6,641
CI/CD	9	Up 6 places+6	£525	+1.44%	5,521 11.78%	5,324
Problem-Solving	10	Down 3 places-3	£495	+1.53%	5,418 11.56%	9,395
AI	15	Up 25 places+25	£575	+4.54%	4,919 10.50%	17,097
DevOps	16	Down 4 places-4	£525	-	4,881 10.42%	4,019
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 12 places+12	£525	+5.00%	4,729 10.09%	6,609
Migration	19	Up 1 place+1	£545	+4.80%	4,395 9.38%	2,350
Stakeholder Engagement	25	Down 2 places-2	£550	+4.76%	3,824 8.16%	1,848
Analytics	26	Up 1 place+1	£543	+3.33%	3,621 7.73%	6,790
Roadmaps	27	Up 11 places+11	£600	+10.34%	3,222 6.88%	7,104
Decision-Making	29	Up 22 places+22	£550	+7.31%	2,978 6.36%	5,594
Validation	30	Up 35 places+35	£500	-	2,942 6.28%	3,740
Software Engineering	32	Up 12 places+12	£568	-1.30%	2,873 6.13%	7,512
Infrastructure as Code	34	Up 21 places+21	£550	+1.61%	2,595 5.54%	2,527
Cybersecurity	35	Up 7 places+7	£550	+2.32%	2,594 5.54%	4,724
Data Modelling	39	Up 13 places+13	£525	-2.55%	2,459 5.25%	2,187
Test Automation	42	Up 5 places+5	£475	-5.00%	2,366 5.05%	3,037
Business Intelligence	48	Down 12 places-12	£500	-	2,074 4.43%	2,571
Technical Leadership	49	Up 100 places+100	£600	-	2,050 4.37%	2,937
Project Delivery	51	Up 9 places+9	£525	-	2,026 4.32%	2,340
ITIL	53	No change0	£500	+7.52%	2,007 4.28%	1,508
Risk Management	57	Up 4 places+4	£575	-	1,843 3.93%	2,154
Change Management	60	Down 6 places-6	£538	+7.50%	1,811 3.86%	1,419
Project Management	61	Down 27 places-27	£525	-	1,808 3.86%	2,607
Scrum	64	Down 16 places-16	£500	-	1,741 3.72%	1,383
Microservices	65	Down 9 places-9	£525	-	1,702 3.63%	1,549
Observability	66	Up 80 places+80	£550	+1.85%	1,681 3.59%	2,809
Workshop Facilitation	67	Up 47 places+47	£525	+5.00%	1,670 3.56%	1,004
User Acceptance Testing	68	Up 25 places+25	£511	+2.15%	1,659 3.54%	790
Data Governance	69	Up 15 places+15	£550	+4.76%	1,645 3.51%	1,552
Service Management	72	Up 13 places+13	£525	+5.00%	1,635 3.49%	1,277
Customer Service	73	Down 2 places-2	£260	+18.18%	1,628 3.47%	1,946
Mentoring	74	Down 6 places-6	£550	+4.76%	1,624 3.47%	5,693
ERP	75	Up 2 places+2	£550	-	1,618 3.45%	1,799
Data Pipeline	78	Up 27 places+27	£525	-	1,578 3.37%	1,965
Data Engineering	81	Up 50 places+50	£535	+1.90%	1,533 3.27%	1,656
Data Protection	86	Down 10 places-10	£500	-	1,466 3.13%	1,133
ITSM	87	Up 12 places+12	£513	+5.01%	1,463 3.12%	885
Containerisation	88	Down 19 places-19	£550	+4.76%	1,449 3.09%	1,465
ETL	89	Down 1 place-1	£488	-2.50%	1,448 3.09%	1,006
Infrastructure Engineering	92	Up 71 places+71	£550	+10.00%	1,436 3.06%	1,471
Platform Engineering	93	Up 108 places+108	£550	+2.80%	1,413 3.02%	2,016
Data Migration	94	Down 2 places-2	£525	-2.77%	1,410 3.01%	702
Machine Learning	95	Down 12 places-12	£600	+4.34%	1,381 2.95%	4,757
Requirements Gathering	97	Up 13 places+13	£500	-	1,354 2.89%	978
Digital Transformation Programme	98	Up 87 places+87	£513	-2.38%	1,300 2.77%	673
Workflow	99	Down 1 place-1	£528	+5.50%	1,293 2.76%	2,506
User Experience	100	Down 33 places-33	£475	-	1,289 2.75%	2,592
CRM	102	Up 2 places+2	£525	+5.00%	1,255 2.68%	3,032