Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	4	Up 11 places+11	£550	+3.77%	8,075 17.41%	1,328
Agile	6	Down 2 places-2	£525	-	7,309 15.76%	1,329
CI/CD	9	Up 7 places+7	£525	+2.43%	5,456 11.77%	1,012
Problem-Solving	10	Down 4 places-4	£500	+2.56%	5,315 11.46%	2,576
DevOps	14	Down 2 places-2	£525	-	4,859 10.48%	867
AI	16	Up 23 places+23	£570	+3.63%	4,836 10.43%	1,960
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 11 places+11	£523	+4.50%	4,671 10.07%	1,848
Migration	20	Down 1 place-1	£540	+2.85%	4,327 9.33%	525
Stakeholder Engagement	25	Down 1 place-1	£550	+4.26%	3,767 8.12%	591
Analytics	26	No change0	£537	+2.28%	3,541 7.64%	957
Roadmaps	27	Up 10 places+10	£599	+11.23%	3,179 6.86%	1,004
Decision-Making	28	Up 22 places+22	£550	+7.31%	2,952 6.37%	1,272
Validation	30	Up 32 places+32	£500	-2.43%	2,883 6.22%	927
Software Engineering	32	Up 11 places+11	£555	-3.47%	2,782 6.00%	1,233
Cybersecurity	34	Up 10 places+10	£550	-	2,556 5.51%	1,316
Infrastructure as Code	36	Up 18 places+18	£550	+1.10%	2,520 5.43%	538
Data Modelling	38	Up 13 places+13	£525	-3.04%	2,459 5.30%	356
Test Automation	42	Up 3 places+3	£475	-5.00%	2,270 4.90%	631
Business Intelligence	48	Down 13 places-13	£500	-	2,056 4.43%	539
ITIL	51	No change0	£500	+11.11%	2,006 4.33%	478
Project Delivery	52	Up 5 places+5	£525	-	2,002 4.32%	707
Technical Leadership	54	Up 97 places+97	£600	+4.34%	1,960 4.23%	725
Risk Management	58	Down 2 places-2	£575	-	1,828 3.94%	462
Project Management	59	Down 29 places-29	£525	-	1,798 3.88%	633
Change Management	60	Down 8 places-8	£538	+7.50%	1,797 3.88%	294
Scrum	64	Down 18 places-18	£500	-	1,712 3.69%	245
Microservices	66	Down 13 places-13	£525	-	1,651 3.56%	326
Observability	67	Up 81 places+81	£549	-0.18%	1,641 3.54%	364
User Acceptance Testing	69	Up 19 places+19	£500	-	1,634 3.52%	217
Workshop Facilitation	70	Up 50 places+50	£525	+5.00%	1,622 3.50%	205
Data Governance	72	Up 14 places+14	£550	+4.76%	1,615 3.48%	326
Mentoring	74	Down 8 places-8	£550	+4.76%	1,608 3.47%	1,049
ERP	75	Down 3 places-3	£550	-	1,599 3.45%	434
Data Pipeline	76	Up 26 places+26	£525	-	1,591 3.43%	270
Service Management	79	Up 6 places+6	£525	+5.00%	1,575 3.40%	391
Customer Service	81	Down 14 places-14	£250	+13.63%	1,565 3.37%	744
Data Engineering	87	Up 44 places+44	£530	+0.95%	1,484 3.20%	270
ITSM	88	Up 15 places+15	£510	+5.42%	1,471 3.17%	258
Data Protection	89	Down 16 places-16	£500	-	1,459 3.15%	258
ETL	90	Down 7 places-7	£490	-2.00%	1,458 3.14%	223
Containerisation	91	Down 26 places-26	£550	+4.76%	1,444 3.11%	290
Data Migration	93	Down 6 places-6	£525	-4.54%	1,415 3.05%	166
Infrastructure Engineering	95	Up 70 places+70	£550	+10.00%	1,405 3.03%	391
Platform Engineering	97	Up 110 places+110	£550	+1.85%	1,370 2.95%	342
Machine Learning	98	Down 18 places-18	£593	+4.68%	1,363 2.94%	549
Requirements Gathering	101	Up 6 places+6	£508	+1.57%	1,331 2.87%	241
User Experience	101	Down 37 places-37	£475	-	1,331 2.87%	347
Digital Transformation Programme	102	Up 88 places+88	£515	-1.90%	1,270 2.74%	199
Workflow	103	Down 8 places-8	£525	+5.00%	1,269 2.74%	327
CRM	104	Up 1 place+1	£525	+5.00%	1,234 2.66%	588