Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in the Home Counties

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies
Validation	2	Up 2 places+2	£600	-	2 25.00%
Stakeholder Management	2	Up 1 place+1	£650	-	2 25.00%
Problem-Solving	2	New entry-	£700	-	2 25.00%
Process Improvement	2	New entry-	£650	-	2 25.00%
Lean Six Sigma	2	New entry-	£650	-	2 25.00%
Business Analysis	2	New entry-	£650	-	2 25.00%
Target Operating Model	2	New entry-	£650	-	2 25.00%
Six Sigma	2	New entry-	£650	-	2 25.00%
Service Delivery	3	New entry-	-	-	1 12.50%
Disaster Recovery	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
ITSM	3	New entry-	£700	-	1 12.50%
Identity Management	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Workflow	3	New entry-	£700	-	1 12.50%
AI	3	Up 1 place+1	£650	+18.18%	1 12.50%
Security Operations	3	New entry-	£700	-	1 12.50%
Migration	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Data Science	3	New entry-	-	-	1 12.50%
High Availability	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Load Balancing	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Technical Discovery	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
DevOps	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
SIEM	3	New entry-	£700	-	1 12.50%
Lakehouse	3	New entry-	-	-	1 12.50%
Visualisation	3	New entry-	-	-	1 12.50%
Infrastructure Engineering	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
DevSecOps	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Infrastructure as Code	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Use Case	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Robotic Process Automation	3	New entry-	£650	-	1 12.50%
Release Management	3	New entry-	-	-	1 12.50%
Security Architecture	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Security Monitoring	3	New entry-	£700	-	1 12.50%
Analytics	3	New entry-	-	-	1 12.50%
Data Engineering	3	New entry-	-	-	1 12.50%
Key Management	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Secrets Management	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
RBAC	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
CI/CD	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Platform Engineering	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Knowledge Transfer	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Cybersecurity	3	No change0	£700	-	1 12.50%
SOAR	3	New entry-	£700	-	1 12.50%
Enterprise Architecture	3	Up 1 place+1	£600	-	1 12.50%
Business Strategy	3	New entry-	-	-	1 12.50%
Containerisation	3	New entry-	£600	-	1 12.50%
Incident Response	3	New entry-	£700	-	1 12.50%