Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Essex

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	14	Up 6 places+6	£285	-5.00%	17 7.27%	13
Cloud Native	24	Down -9 places-9	£505	+57.13%	7 2.99%	1
Virtual Team	25	New entry-	-	-	6 2.56%	1
Smartphone	26	New entry-	-	-	5 2.14%
Legacy Systems	27	New entry-	£550	-	4 1.71%	5
Product Ownership	28	New entry-	£460	-	3 1.28%	3
Data Centre	28	New entry-	£530	-	3 1.28%	2
Management Information System	28	Down -8 places-8	£300	-42.85%	3 1.28%	5
Greenfield Project	28	New entry-	£460	-	3 1.28%	1
Team-Oriented Environment	28	New entry-	£300	-	3 1.28%	1
Distributed Systems	29	New entry-	£515	-	2 0.85%	3
Genomics	29	New entry-	-	-	2 0.85%
CMDB	29	New entry-	£535	-	2 0.85%
Self-Motivation	29	Down -9 places-9	-	-	2 0.85%	9
Hybrid Cloud	30	New entry-	£505	-	1 0.43%	1
Onboarding	30	Down -10 places-10	£415	-	1 0.43%	12
Security Posture	30	New entry-	£338	-	1 0.43%	1
Operational Technology	30	New entry-	£500	-	1 0.43%
Reinsurance	30	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.43%	1
FPGA	30	Down -12 places-12	-	-	1 0.43%	7
EPoS	30	New entry-	£165	-	1 0.43%	1
LLPG	30	New entry-	-	-	1 0.43%	1
Infotainment	30	New entry-	-	-	1 0.43%	1
Clustering	30	New entry-	£335	-	1 0.43%	1
Digital Signage	30	New entry-	£285	-	1 0.43%
VHDL	30	Down -12 places-12	-	-	1 0.43%	6
Verilog	30	New entry-	-	-	1 0.43%	3
Embedded Systems	30	Down -11 places-11	-	-	1 0.43%	6
Analytical Mindset	30	New entry-	-	-	1 0.43%	3
Algorithms	30	New entry-	£575	-	1 0.43%	8