Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 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	+2.42%	8,442 17.85%	4,542
Agile	6	Down 2 places-2	£522	-0.66%	7,467 15.79%	6,630
CI/CD	9	Up 6 places+6	£525	+1.94%	5,604 11.85%	5,235
Problem-Solving	10	Down 3 places-3	£498	+2.40%	5,470 11.57%	10,215
AI	15	Up 24 places+24	£575	+4.54%	4,996 10.56%	17,792
DevOps	16	Down 4 places-4	£525	-	4,924 10.41%	4,028
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 11 places+11	£525	+5.00%	4,769 10.08%	6,869
Migration	19	No change0	£545	+3.80%	4,453 9.42%	2,330
Stakeholder Engagement	25	Down 2 places-2	£550	+4.76%	3,883 8.21%	1,779
Analytics	26	Up 1 place+1	£550	+4.76%	3,645 7.71%	7,112
Roadmaps	27	Up 13 places+13	£600	+9.09%	3,274 6.92%	7,027
Decision-Making	29	Up 23 places+23	£550	+7.31%	2,996 6.34%	5,742
Validation	30	Up 35 places+35	£500	-	2,984 6.31%	3,776
Software Engineering	31	Up 13 places+13	£575	+0.87%	2,918 6.17%	7,749
Cybersecurity	34	Up 8 places+8	£550	+2.32%	2,638 5.58%	5,166
Infrastructure as Code	37	Up 18 places+18	£550	+2.32%	2,615 5.53%	2,489
Data Modelling	39	Up 14 places+14	£525	-2.32%	2,496 5.28%	2,153
Test Automation	41	Up 6 places+6	£475	-5.00%	2,422 5.12%	3,084
Technical Leadership	48	Up 105 places+105	£600	-	2,097 4.43%	2,809
Business Intelligence	49	Down 13 places-13	£500	-	2,088 4.42%	2,715
Project Delivery	51	Up 8 places+8	£525	-	2,052 4.34%	2,339
ITIL	53	Up 1 place+1	£500	+8.10%	2,029 4.29%	1,687
Risk Management	57	Up 4 places+4	£575	-	1,874 3.96%	2,192
Change Management	60	Down 8 places-8	£538	+7.50%	1,840 3.89%	1,451
Project Management	62	Down 28 places-28	£525	-	1,821 3.85%	2,718
Scrum	63	Down 14 places-14	£500	-	1,768 3.74%	1,382
Microservices	66	Down 10 places-10	£525	-	1,723 3.64%	1,530
Observability	67	Up 83 places+83	£550	+1.85%	1,698 3.59%	2,686
Workshop Facilitation	68	Up 48 places+48	£525	+5.00%	1,694 3.58%	986
Data Governance	69	Up 15 places+15	£550	+4.76%	1,680 3.55%	1,554
User Acceptance Testing	70	Up 24 places+24	£513	+2.50%	1,675 3.54%	796
Service Management	72	Up 14 places+14	£525	+5.00%	1,666 3.52%	1,393
Mentoring	73	Down 4 places-4	£550	+4.76%	1,658 3.51%	6,121
Customer Service	77	Down 5 places-5	£260	+18.18%	1,637 3.46%	2,777
ERP	79	Down 1 place-1	£550	-	1,632 3.45%	1,823
Data Pipeline	84	Up 25 places+25	£525	-	1,585 3.35%	1,964
Data Engineering	85	Up 49 places+49	£535	+1.90%	1,560 3.30%	1,661
Data Protection	89	Down 12 places-12	£500	-	1,482 3.13%	1,218
Containerisation	91	Down 23 places-23	£550	+4.76%	1,473 3.11%	1,425
ITSM	92	Up 11 places+11	£515	+6.68%	1,468 3.10%	988
ETL	93	Down 6 places-6	£490	-2.00%	1,461 3.09%	962
Infrastructure Engineering	93	Up 77 places+77	£550	+10.00%	1,461 3.09%	1,433
Platform Engineering	96	Up 115 places+115	£550	+2.70%	1,436 3.04%	1,920
Data Migration	97	Down 4 places-4	£525	-2.77%	1,433 3.03%	685
Machine Learning	98	Down 15 places-15	£600	+4.34%	1,400 2.96%	4,935
Requirements Gathering	100	Up 10 places+10	£500	-0.79%	1,371 2.90%	946
Digital Transformation Programme	101	Up 87 places+87	£515	-1.90%	1,318 2.79%	627
Workflow	102	Down 3 places-3	£525	+5.00%	1,299 2.75%	2,661
User Experience	103	Down 36 places-36	£475	-	1,295 2.74%	2,670
Generative AI	104	Up 122 places+122	£574	+4.31%	1,273 2.69%	1,988