Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Leeds

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Agile	2	No change0	£500	-4.76%	252 24.98%	40
Stakeholder Management	3	Up 15 places+15	£500	-	201 19.92%	36
CI/CD	4	Up 3 places+3	£478	-4.50%	198 19.62%	44
DevOps	13	Down 2 places-2	£475	-5.00%	138 13.68%	40
Problem-Solving	16	Up 1 place+1	£500	-	100 9.91%	52
AI	16	Up 47 places+47	£550	+4.76%	100 9.91%	43
Continuous Improvement	16	Up 19 places+19	£500	-	100 9.91%	38
Infrastructure as Code	18	Up 2 places+2	£500	-3.84%	94 9.32%	21
Stakeholder Engagement	22	Up 15 places+15	£531	+1.19%	85 8.42%	14
Test Automation	23	Down 4 places-4	£475	-9.52%	82 8.13%	30
Migration	24	Up 5 places+5	£525	-	76 7.53%	16
Roadmaps	27	Up 10 places+10	£550	+10.00%	70 6.94%	15
Observability	28	Up 35 places+35	£475	-6.63%	68 6.74%	14
Analytics	31	Up 7 places+7	£490	-0.40%	64 6.34%	20
Digital Transformation Programme	33	Up 21 places+21	£485	-11.81%	61 6.05%	13
Validation	34	Up 30 places+30	£471	+17.62%	60 5.95%	9
Data Modelling	37	Up 18 places+18	£500	-	55 5.45%	12
Microservices	38	Down 19 places-19	£483	-17.69%	54 5.35%	14
Service Design	38	Up 26 places+26	£475	-1.29%	54 5.35%	1
Data Governance	40	Up 24 places+24	£463	-7.50%	51 5.05%	5
Full-Stack Development	41	Up 14 places+14	£500	+2.04%	50 4.96%	9
Workshop Facilitation	42	Up 22 places+22	£475	-8.43%	49 4.86%	6
Software Engineering	42	Down 6 places-6	£475	-5.00%	49 4.86%	22
User Research	43	Up 21 places+21	£500	-	48 4.76%	3
User Experience	45	Down 2 places-2	£463	+2.77%	45 4.46%	5
Data Engineering	47	Up 17 places+17	£463	-22.91%	43 4.26%	8
Data Pipeline	49	Up 18 places+18	£525	+5.00%	41 4.06%	11
ITIL	50	Down 5 places-5	£525	+21.73%	40 3.96%	14
ERP	50	Up 25 places+25	£400	+272.09%	40 3.96%	8
User-Centered Design (UCD)	51	Up 14 places+14	£500	+6.95%	39 3.87%	1
ETL	52	Up 2 places+2	£488	+18.90%	38 3.77%	9
Mentoring	54	Down 24 places-24	£468	-15.00%	36 3.57%	27
Decision-Making	54	Down 2 places-2	£510	+2.00%	36 3.57%	22
Business Intelligence	54	Down 4 places-4	£481	-3.75%	36 3.57%	9
Data Protection	55	Up 1 place+1	£450	-10.00%	35 3.47%	6
Project Delivery	55	Down 1 place-1	£538	+10.25%	35 3.47%	10
Enterprise Architecture	55	Up 18 places+18	£625	+16.27%	35 3.47%	2
Cybersecurity	55	Down 9 places-9	£540	+3.84%	35 3.47%	41
Scrum	56	Down 12 places-12	£525	+5.00%	34 3.37%	11
Technical Leadership	56	Up 7 places+7	£538	-2.27%	34 3.37%	19
Change Management	57	Up 11 places+11	£513	-6.81%	33 3.27%	7
Platform Engineering	57	Up 1 place+1	£463	-11.90%	33 3.27%	15
Machine Learning	57	Up 12 places+12	£475	-20.83%	33 3.27%	10
Generative AI	58	Up 18 places+18	£513	+46.42%	32 3.17%	13
Data Management	59	Up 3 places+3	£410	-20.00%	31 3.07%	4
Project Management	59	Down 8 places-8	£525	-	31 3.07%	8
Data Architecture	60	Up 7 places+7	£638	+6.25%	30 2.97%	5
Event-Driven	60	Up 3 places+3	£600	+14.28%	30 2.97%	1
Performance Tuning	61	No change0	£418	-16.50%	29 2.87%	2
Collaborative Working	61	Down 3 places-3	£484	+3.20%	29 2.87%	12