Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 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%	8,270 17.70%	1,982
Agile	6	Down 2 places-2	£525	-	7,344 15.72%	2,104
CI/CD	9	Up 6 places+6	£525	+1.94%	5,494 11.76%	1,571
Problem-Solving	10	Down 3 places-3	£500	+2.56%	5,410 11.58%	3,737
AI	15	Up 25 places+25	£575	+4.54%	4,896 10.48%	3,812
DevOps	16	Down 4 places-4	£525	-	4,855 10.39%	1,306
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 12 places+12	£525	+5.00%	4,723 10.11%	2,390
Migration	20	No change0	£543	+3.33%	4,357 9.33%	866
Stakeholder Engagement	25	Down 2 places-2	£550	+4.76%	3,813 8.16%	883
Analytics	26	Up 1 place+1	£541	+3.09%	3,599 7.70%	1,604
Roadmaps	27	Up 12 places+12	£600	+10.09%	3,196 6.84%	1,623
Decision-Making	29	Up 25 places+25	£550	+7.31%	2,974 6.37%	1,742
Validation	30	Up 35 places+35	£500	-	2,933 6.28%	1,310
Software Engineering	32	Up 12 places+12	£563	-2.17%	2,841 6.08%	1,874
Cybersecurity	34	Up 9 places+9	£550	+2.32%	2,588 5.54%	2,310
Infrastructure as Code	36	Up 20 places+20	£550	+1.38%	2,570 5.50%	760
Data Modelling	38	Up 15 places+15	£525	-2.77%	2,463 5.27%	703
Test Automation	42	Up 5 places+5	£475	-5.00%	2,341 5.01%	952
Business Intelligence	48	Down 12 places-12	£500	-	2,069 4.43%	1,080
Technical Leadership	50	Up 97 places+97	£600	-	2,025 4.34%	1,067
Project Delivery	52	Up 8 places+8	£525	-	2,014 4.31%	985
ITIL	54	Down 2 places-2	£500	+7.52%	2,004 4.29%	586
Risk Management	58	Up 3 places+3	£575	-	1,841 3.94%	698
Change Management	61	Down 6 places-6	£538	+7.50%	1,802 3.86%	514
Project Management	62	Down 29 places-29	£525	-	1,797 3.85%	1,037
Scrum	66	Down 18 places-18	£500	-	1,732 3.71%	473
Microservices	67	Down 10 places-10	£525	-	1,683 3.60%	490
Workshop Facilitation	68	Up 46 places+46	£525	+5.00%	1,667 3.57%	372
Observability	69	Up 75 places+75	£550	+1.56%	1,665 3.56%	620
User Acceptance Testing	70	Up 22 places+22	£509	+1.80%	1,654 3.54%	320
Data Governance	72	Up 12 places+12	£550	+4.76%	1,634 3.50%	512
Service Management	73	Up 12 places+12	£525	+5.00%	1,628 3.49%	521
Customer Service	75	Down 4 places-4	£250	+13.63%	1,618 3.46%	1,378
Mentoring	77	Down 9 places-9	£550	+4.76%	1,611 3.45%	1,978
ERP	78	Down 3 places-3	£550	-	1,607 3.44%	625
Data Pipeline	81	Up 23 places+23	£525	-	1,573 3.37%	466
Data Engineering	84	Up 45 places+45	£535	+1.90%	1,519 3.25%	492
Data Protection	89	Down 13 places-13	£500	-	1,475 3.16%	400
ITSM	90	Up 9 places+9	£513	+4.80%	1,455 3.11%	347
Containerisation	91	Down 22 places-22	£550	+4.76%	1,447 3.10%	432
ETL	92	Down 4 places-4	£488	-2.35%	1,443 3.09%	352
Infrastructure Engineering	94	Up 69 places+69	£550	+10.00%	1,428 3.06%	559
Platform Engineering	96	Up 103 places+103	£550	+2.61%	1,404 3.01%	483
Data Migration	97	Down 8 places-8	£525	-4.54%	1,403 3.00%	255
Machine Learning	98	Down 15 places-15	£600	+4.26%	1,372 2.94%	1,320
Requirements Gathering	100	Up 11 places+11	£500	-	1,353 2.90%	403
User Experience	101	Down 34 places-34	£475	-	1,289 2.76%	583
Workflow	102	Down 5 places-5	£525	+5.00%	1,286 2.75%	789
Digital Transformation Programme	103	Up 81 places+81	£513	-2.38%	1,285 2.75%	335
Generative AI	105	Up 115 places+115	£563	+2.27%	1,248 2.67%	622