Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 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%	7,937 17.13%	1,381
Agile	6	Down 2 places-2	£525	-	7,258 15.67%	1,404
CI/CD	9	Up 7 places+7	£525	+2.04%	5,440 11.74%	1,057
Problem-Solving	11	Down 5 places-5	£500	+2.56%	5,269 11.37%	2,609
DevOps	14	Down 2 places-2	£525	-	4,862 10.50%	893
AI	16	Up 24 places+24	£568	+3.22%	4,808 10.38%	1,961
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 12 places+12	£523	+4.50%	4,601 9.93%	1,947
Migration	20	Down 1 place-1	£540	+2.85%	4,301 9.28%	545
Stakeholder Engagement	25	Down 1 place-1	£550	+3.77%	3,698 7.98%	686
Analytics	26	Up 1 place+1	£535	+1.90%	3,515 7.59%	934
Roadmaps	27	Up 11 places+11	£595	+10.18%	3,129 6.75%	954
Decision-Making	28	Up 23 places+23	£550	+7.31%	2,921 6.31%	1,290
Validation	31	Up 34 places+34	£500	-2.43%	2,852 6.16%	921
Software Engineering	32	Up 14 places+14	£557	-3.13%	2,788 6.02%	1,285
Cybersecurity	34	Up 11 places+11	£550	-	2,524 5.45%	1,372
Infrastructure as Code	36	Up 21 places+21	£550	-	2,505 5.41%	543
Data Modelling	38	Up 15 places+15	£525	-2.77%	2,445 5.28%	396
Test Automation	42	Up 5 places+5	£475	-5.00%	2,247 4.85%	637
Business Intelligence	48	Down 12 places-12	£500	-	2,049 4.42%	547
ITIL	51	Up 1 place+1	£500	+11.11%	1,996 4.31%	494
Project Delivery	52	Up 6 places+6	£525	-	1,962 4.24%	745
Technical Leadership	54	Up 92 places+92	£600	+2.12%	1,942 4.19%	767
Risk Management	58	Up 1 place+1	£572	-0.52%	1,789 3.86%	460
Change Management	59	Down 5 places-5	£538	+7.50%	1,777 3.84%	318
Project Management	60	Down 29 places-29	£525	-	1,769 3.82%	624
Scrum	65	Down 17 places-17	£500	-	1,709 3.69%	243
Observability	67	Up 76 places+76	£545	-0.90%	1,644 3.55%	381
Microservices	68	Down 13 places-13	£525	-	1,639 3.54%	316
User Acceptance Testing	71	Up 19 places+19	£503	+0.65%	1,615 3.49%	214
Data Pipeline	73	Up 30 places+30	£525	-	1,604 3.46%	272
Data Governance	74	Up 12 places+12	£550	+4.76%	1,595 3.44%	342
Mentoring	75	Down 6 places-6	£546	+4.04%	1,591 3.43%	1,138
ERP	76	Down 2 places-2	£550	-	1,588 3.43%	439
Workshop Facilitation	77	Up 41 places+41	£525	+5.00%	1,577 3.40%	259
Customer Service	81	Down 14 places-14	£250	+11.11%	1,550 3.35%	831
Service Management	82	Up 1 place+1	£525	+5.00%	1,546 3.34%	409
Data Engineering	87	Up 42 places+42	£530	+0.95%	1,480 3.19%	275
ITSM	89	Up 11 places+11	£510	+7.03%	1,456 3.14%	258
ETL	90	Down 6 places-6	£490	-2.00%	1,448 3.13%	249
Containerisation	92	Down 26 places-26	£545	+3.80%	1,444 3.12%	305
Data Protection	93	Down 21 places-21	£500	-	1,434 3.10%	241
Infrastructure Engineering	94	Up 65 places+65	£550	+10.00%	1,427 3.08%	353
Data Migration	95	Down 8 places-8	£525	-4.54%	1,398 3.02%	182
Machine Learning	98	Down 18 places-18	£588	+3.88%	1,358 2.93%	561
Platform Engineering	98	Up 105 places+105	£550	+2.51%	1,358 2.93%	351
User Experience	101	Down 34 places-34	£475	-	1,323 2.86%	419
Requirements Gathering	102	Up 4 places+4	£500	-	1,306 2.82%	252
Workflow	103	Down 9 places-9	£525	+5.00%	1,257 2.71%	322
Digital Transformation Programme	104	Up 82 places+82	£523	-0.47%	1,235 2.67%	235
Generative AI	106	Up 116 places+116	£555	+0.90%	1,218 2.63%	310