Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 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	+2.99%	8,120 17.52%	3,195
Agile	6	Down 2 places-2	£525	-	7,291 15.73%	3,792
CI/CD	9	Up 6 places+6	£525	+2.43%	5,458 11.78%	2,749
Problem-Solving	10	Down 3 places-3	£500	+2.56%	5,331 11.50%	5,736
DevOps	15	Down 3 places-3	£525	-	4,846 10.46%	2,228
AI	16	Up 23 places+23	£570	+3.63%	4,844 10.45%	7,061
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 12 places+12	£523	+4.50%	4,675 10.09%	3,885
Migration	20	Down 1 place-1	£540	+2.85%	4,322 9.33%	1,331
Stakeholder Engagement	25	Down 1 place-1	£550	+4.76%	3,761 8.12%	1,235
Analytics	26	Up 1 place+1	£538	+2.38%	3,533 7.62%	3,356
Roadmaps	27	Up 11 places+11	£600	+11.62%	3,164 6.83%	3,221
Decision-Making	29	Up 21 places+21	£550	+7.31%	2,945 6.35%	3,347
Validation	30	Up 32 places+32	£500	-0.09%	2,878 6.21%	2,027
Software Engineering	32	Up 10 places+10	£556	-3.30%	2,797 6.04%	3,284
Cybersecurity	35	Up 9 places+9	£550	+1.85%	2,546 5.49%	2,712
Infrastructure as Code	36	Up 17 places+17	£550	+1.85%	2,536 5.47%	1,318
Data Modelling	38	Up 10 places+10	£525	-2.77%	2,449 5.28%	1,197
Test Automation	42	Up 3 places+3	£475	-5.00%	2,280 4.92%	1,426
Business Intelligence	48	Down 13 places-13	£500	-	2,036 4.39%	1,435
Project Delivery	50	Up 7 places+7	£525	-	2,004 4.32%	1,465
ITIL	52	Down 1 place-1	£500	+11.11%	1,995 4.30%	887
Technical Leadership	54	Up 95 places+95	£600	+3.22%	1,972 4.26%	1,734
Risk Management	58	No change0	£575	-	1,803 3.89%	1,293
Change Management	59	Down 7 places-7	£538	+7.50%	1,796 3.88%	823
Project Management	60	Down 28 places-28	£525	-	1,789 3.86%	1,664
Scrum	64	Down 17 places-17	£500	-	1,708 3.69%	863
Microservices	66	Down 12 places-12	£525	-	1,659 3.58%	893
Observability	67	Up 79 places+79	£549	+1.66%	1,644 3.55%	1,228
Workshop Facilitation	68	Up 47 places+47	£525	+5.00%	1,629 3.51%	618
User Acceptance Testing	69	Up 20 places+20	£503	+0.65%	1,627 3.51%	452
Data Governance	70	Up 13 places+13	£550	+4.76%	1,619 3.49%	841
Mentoring	73	Down 5 places-5	£550	+4.76%	1,599 3.45%	3,040
ERP	75	Down 2 places-2	£550	-	1,595 3.44%	867
Customer Service	76	Down 7 places-7	£250	+13.63%	1,588 3.43%	1,387
Service Management	77	Up 7 places+7	£525	+5.00%	1,581 3.41%	813
Data Pipeline	78	Up 19 places+19	£525	-	1,575 3.40%	861
Data Engineering	83	Up 47 places+47	£535	+1.90%	1,493 3.22%	911
Data Protection	85	Down 12 places-12	£500	-	1,462 3.15%	657
ITSM	86	Up 9 places+9	£513	+5.12%	1,454 3.14%	557
ETL	88	Down 5 places-5	£490	-2.04%	1,448 3.12%	645
Containerisation	90	Down 25 places-25	£550	+4.76%	1,440 3.11%	778
Infrastructure Engineering	91	Up 78 places+78	£550	+10.00%	1,417 3.06%	774
Data Migration	93	Down 8 places-8	£525	-4.54%	1,402 3.03%	368
Platform Engineering	95	Up 108 places+108	£550	+2.80%	1,379 2.98%	860
Machine Learning	96	Down 15 places-15	£600	+5.26%	1,362 2.94%	2,247
Requirements Gathering	98	Up 10 places+10	£501	+0.10%	1,339 2.89%	629
User Experience	99	Down 35 places-35	£475	-	1,313 2.83%	1,086
Workflow	100	Down 7 places-7	£525	+5.00%	1,272 2.74%	1,110
Digital Transformation Programme	101	Up 89 places+89	£515	-1.90%	1,260 2.72%	404
CRM	102	No change0	£525	+5.00%	1,243 2.68%	1,447