Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Oct 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	+3.77%	7,926 16.96%	4,473
Agile	6	Down 2 places-2	£525	-	7,281 15.58%	6,533
CI/CD	9	Up 6 places+6	£525	+2.04%	5,444 11.65%	5,234
Problem-Solving	11	Down 5 places-5	£500	+2.56%	5,265 11.27%	8,588
DevOps	14	Down 1 place-1	£525	-	4,879 10.44%	3,939
AI	16	Up 24 places+24	£568	+3.31%	4,838 10.36%	15,362
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 12 places+12	£523	+4.50%	4,592 9.83%	6,564
Migration	20	Down 2 places-2	£540	+2.85%	4,325 9.26%	2,156
Stakeholder Engagement	25	Down 1 place-1	£550	+2.80%	3,694 7.91%	1,857
Analytics	26	Up 1 place+1	£530	+0.95%	3,527 7.55%	6,423
Roadmaps	27	Up 11 places+11	£588	+8.79%	3,130 6.70%	6,648
Decision-Making	28	Up 22 places+22	£550	+7.31%	2,935 6.28%	5,294
Validation	31	Up 35 places+35	£500	-2.43%	2,855 6.11%	3,506
Software Engineering	32	Up 13 places+13	£557	-3.13%	2,807 6.01%	6,937
Cybersecurity	34	Up 12 places+12	£550	-	2,530 5.42%	4,406
Infrastructure as Code	36	Up 22 places+22	£550	-	2,511 5.37%	2,522
Data Modelling	38	Up 16 places+16	£525	-2.77%	2,467 5.28%	2,046
Test Automation	42	Up 6 places+6	£475	-5.00%	2,242 4.80%	2,771
Business Intelligence	48	Down 12 places-12	£500	-	2,054 4.40%	2,357
ITIL	51	Up 2 places+2	£500	+11.11%	2,005 4.29%	1,485
Project Delivery	52	Up 8 places+8	£525	-	1,981 4.24%	2,171
Technical Leadership	54	Up 98 places+98	£600	+3.22%	1,949 4.17%	2,818
Risk Management	58	Up 1 place+1	£575	-	1,796 3.84%	2,106
Project Management	59	Down 28 places-28	£525	-	1,783 3.82%	2,446
Change Management	61	Down 6 places-6	£537	+7.45%	1,776 3.80%	1,352
Scrum	65	Down 16 places-16	£500	-	1,716 3.67%	1,231
Observability	67	Up 84 places+84	£545	-0.90%	1,657 3.55%	2,654
Microservices	69	Down 13 places-13	£525	-	1,642 3.51%	1,473
User Acceptance Testing	72	Up 19 places+19	£501	+0.10%	1,621 3.47%	780
Data Pipeline	73	Up 32 places+32	£525	-	1,618 3.46%	1,852
Data Governance	74	Up 15 places+15	£550	+4.76%	1,610 3.45%	1,584
Mentoring	75	Down 3 places-3	£546	+4.04%	1,593 3.41%	5,205
ERP	75	Up 2 places+2	£550	-	1,593 3.41%	1,667
Workshop Facilitation	76	Up 47 places+47	£525	+5.00%	1,586 3.39%	1,017
Customer Service	80	Down 10 places-10	£250	+11.11%	1,545 3.31%	1,789
Service Management	81	Up 7 places+7	£525	+5.00%	1,542 3.30%	1,263
Data Engineering	86	Up 47 places+47	£530	+0.95%	1,480 3.17%	1,555
ITSM	89	Up 19 places+19	£513	+7.89%	1,459 3.12%	860
ETL	90	Down 3 places-3	£490	-2.00%	1,457 3.12%	1,013
Containerisation	91	Down 20 places-20	£544	+3.57%	1,449 3.10%	1,422
Data Protection	92	Down 16 places-16	£500	-	1,446 3.10%	1,045
Infrastructure Engineering	93	Up 78 places+78	£550	+10.00%	1,442 3.09%	1,348
Data Migration	94	No change0	£525	-4.54%	1,402 3.00%	694
Machine Learning	97	Down 15 places-15	£588	+3.98%	1,367 2.93%	4,337
Platform Engineering	98	Up 124 places+124	£550	+4.76%	1,359 2.91%	2,049
User Experience	99	Down 31 places-31	£475	-	1,344 2.88%	2,461
Requirements Gathering	102	Up 7 places+7	£501	-	1,306 2.80%	871
Workflow	103	Down 5 places-5	£525	+5.00%	1,259 2.69%	2,162
Digital Transformation Programme	104	Up 98 places+98	£525	-	1,249 2.67%	595
Generative AI	105	Up 123 places+123	£560	+1.81%	1,240 2.65%	1,876