Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Halifax

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
CI/CD	1	Up 1 place+1	£538	+30.30%	17 36.96%
DevOps	2	Up 1 place+1	£471	+14.24%	13 28.26%
Infrastructure as Code	2	Up 6 places+6	£525	-	13 28.26%
Problem-Solving	6	Up 1 place+1	£550	+10.00%	9 19.57%	3
Observability	6	New entry-	£515	-	9 19.57%
Performance Optimisation	6	Up 2 places+2	£600	+20.00%	9 19.57%
AI	7	No change0	£550	+33.33%	8 17.39%
Stakeholder Management	7	Down 1 place-1	£525	+35.48%	8 17.39%
Agile	7	Down 3 places-3	£550	+7.31%	8 17.39%
Cloud Security	8	New entry-	£515	-	7 15.22%
Infrastructure Engineering	9	Down 1 place-1	£520	+4.00%	6 13.04%	2
High Availability	10	New entry-	£538	-	5 10.87%
Continuous Improvement	10	Down 2 places-2	£575	+9.52%	5 10.87%
Cybersecurity	10	Down 4 places-4	£475	-	5 10.87%	1
Technical Leadership	10	New entry-	£508	-	5 10.87%
Cyber Threat Intelligence	11	New entry-	-	-	4 8.70%
ITIL	11	New entry-	£600	-	4 8.70%
SIEM	11	Down 5 places-5	-	-	4 8.70%
Root Cause Analysis	11	New entry-	£525	-	4 8.70%
Load Balancing	11	New entry-	-	-	4 8.70%
Threat Intelligence	11	New entry-	-	-	4 8.70%
Service-Level Objective	11	New entry-	£520	-	4 8.70%
Edge Computing	11	New entry-	-	-	4 8.70%
Zero Trust	11	New entry-	-	-	4 8.70%
Test Automation	11	New entry-	£378	-	4 8.70%
Roadmaps	11	Down 5 places-5	£538	+30.30%	4 8.70%
Code Quality	11	New entry-	-	-	4 8.70%
LLM	11	New entry-	£575	-	4 8.70%
Incident Management	12	New entry-	£550	-	3 6.52%
Event-Driven Architecture	12	New entry-	£550	-	3 6.52%
Digital Transformation Programme	12	New entry-	£550	-	3 6.52%
Collaborative Working	12	New entry-	£400	-	3 6.52%
Mentoring	12	Down 6 places-6	£459	-	3 6.52%
Microservices	12	New entry-	£475	-	3 6.52%
Data Science	12	New entry-	£600	-	3 6.52%
Strategic Roadmap	12	New entry-	£525	-	3 6.52%
Conflict Resolution	12	New entry-	£600	-	3 6.52%
Event-Driven	12	New entry-	£550	-	3 6.52%
Stakeholder Engagement	13	Down 6 places-6	£575	-8.00%	2 4.35%
Machine Learning	13	New entry-	£525	-	2 4.35%
Enterprise Architecture	13	New entry-	£550	-	2 4.35%
Analytics	13	Down 6 places-6	-	-	2 4.35%
Document Composition	13	New entry-	£525	-	2 4.35%
Workflow	13	Down 5 places-5	-	-	2 4.35%
Site Reliability Engineering	13	New entry-	-	-	2 4.35%
Unit Testing	13	New entry-	£363	-	2 4.35%
DevSecOps	13	New entry-	£471	-	2 4.35%
Red Team	13	New entry-	£600	-	2 4.35%
Threat Modelling	13	New entry-	£434	-	2 4.35%
RBAC	13	Down 5 places-5	-	-	2 4.35%