Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 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	+3.77%	8,220 17.62%	2,119
Agile	6	Down 2 places-2	£525	-	7,363 15.78%	2,474
CI/CD	9	Up 6 places+6	£525	+2.43%	5,490 11.77%	1,771
Problem-Solving	10	Down 3 places-3	£500	+2.56%	5,404 11.59%	3,914
AI	15	Up 25 places+25	£571	+3.86%	4,879 10.46%	4,323
DevOps	16	Down 4 places-4	£525	-	4,855 10.41%	1,438
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 12 places+12	£525	+5.00%	4,724 10.13%	2,662
Migration	20	No change0	£545	+4.80%	4,363 9.35%	946
Stakeholder Engagement	25	Down 1 place-1	£550	+4.76%	3,804 8.16%	1,031
Analytics	26	Up 1 place+1	£540	+2.85%	3,565 7.64%	1,943
Roadmaps	27	Up 12 places+12	£600	+11.62%	3,210 6.88%	1,925
Decision-Making	29	Up 24 places+24	£550	+7.31%	2,978 6.38%	2,133
Validation	30	Up 34 places+34	£500	-	2,917 6.25%	1,335
Software Engineering	32	Up 14 places+14	£560	-2.60%	2,825 6.06%	2,098
Cybersecurity	34	Up 10 places+10	£550	+1.85%	2,577 5.52%	2,260
Infrastructure as Code	36	Up 19 places+19	£550	+1.85%	2,556 5.48%	876
Data Modelling	38	Up 15 places+15	£525	-2.77%	2,464 5.28%	854
Test Automation	42	Up 5 places+5	£475	-5.00%	2,318 4.97%	979
Business Intelligence	48	Down 12 places-12	£500	-	2,056 4.41%	969
Project Delivery	50	Up 10 places+10	£525	-	2,015 4.32%	1,056
Technical Leadership	51	Up 100 places+100	£600	+2.12%	2,013 4.32%	1,194
ITIL	52	Down 1 place-1	£500	+8.69%	2,008 4.30%	672
Risk Management	56	Up 4 places+4	£575	-	1,832 3.93%	766
Change Management	57	Down 3 places-3	£538	+7.50%	1,816 3.89%	610
Project Management	60	Down 27 places-27	£525	-	1,795 3.85%	1,103
Scrum	64	Down 16 places-16	£500	-	1,726 3.70%	532
Microservices	65	Down 9 places-9	£525	-	1,675 3.59%	575
Observability	66	Up 81 places+81	£550	+1.85%	1,662 3.56%	775
Workshop Facilitation	67	Up 52 places+52	£525	+5.00%	1,654 3.55%	392
User Acceptance Testing	68	Up 28 places+28	£508	+1.50%	1,650 3.54%	325
Mentoring	72	Down 2 places-2	£550	+4.76%	1,623 3.48%	2,002
Data Governance	73	Up 11 places+11	£550	+4.76%	1,621 3.48%	647
Service Management	74	Up 12 places+12	£525	+5.00%	1,612 3.46%	599
ERP	75	Up 1 place+1	£550	-	1,610 3.45%	662
Customer Service	77	Down 6 places-6	£250	+13.63%	1,605 3.44%	1,132
Data Pipeline	79	Up 24 places+24	£525	-	1,583 3.39%	602
Data Engineering	83	Up 48 places+48	£530	+0.95%	1,510 3.24%	647
Data Protection	87	Down 10 places-10	£500	-	1,477 3.17%	417
ITSM	88	Up 11 places+11	£513	+5.12%	1,464 3.14%	357
Containerisation	90	Down 23 places-23	£550	+4.76%	1,456 3.12%	479
ETL	90	Down 1 place-1	£488	-2.50%	1,456 3.12%	482
Infrastructure Engineering	92	Up 77 places+77	£550	+10.00%	1,415 3.03%	568
Data Migration	93	Down 3 places-3	£525	-4.54%	1,412 3.03%	247
Platform Engineering	95	Up 113 places+113	£550	+2.70%	1,394 2.99%	580
Machine Learning	96	Down 11 places-11	£600	+4.34%	1,372 2.94%	1,333
Requirements Gathering	98	Up 14 places+14	£500	+0.05%	1,352 2.90%	447
User Experience	99	Down 33 places-33	£475	-	1,311 2.81%	633
Workflow	100	Down 2 places-2	£530	+6.00%	1,281 2.75%	633
Digital Transformation Programme	101	Up 92 places+92	£515	-1.90%	1,276 2.74%	348
Generative AI	102	Up 132 places+132	£561	+2.04%	1,252 2.68%	722