Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Manchester

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	38	Up 11 places+11	£569	+8.28%	119 5.52%	132
Onboarding	40	Up 9 places+9	£519	+28.08%	114 5.29%	141
AI Agents	66	Up 22 places+22	£500	-32.38%	73 3.38%	108
Product Ownership	79	Down 25 places-25	£538	+19.44%	58 2.69%	110
Distributed Systems	85	No change0	£563	+2.27%	51 2.36%	59
Enterprise Software	92	Down 6 places-6	£500	+15.60%	44 2.04%	62
Data Protection Act	94	Down 34 places-34	£463	+8.82%	42 1.95%	5
Management Information System	95	Down 12 places-12	£447	-33.77%	41 1.90%	89
Legacy Systems	96	Down 23 places-23	£545	+21.11%	40 1.85%	25
Security Posture	109	Down 24 places-24	£550	-2.22%	27 1.25%	38
Mobile App	110	Down 29 places-29	£550	+65.66%	26 1.21%	34
NHS	112	Down 27 places-27	£410	-16.96%	24 1.11%	30
IVR	113	Down 24 places-24	£500	-	23 1.07%	4
Data Structures	116	Down 37 places-37	£613	+36.11%	20 0.93%	29
Driving Licence	116	Down 35 places-35	£225	+38.03%	20 0.93%	75
Clustering	116	Down 36 places-36	£450	+29.87%	20 0.93%	1
CMDB	117	Down 31 places-31	£625	+38.88%	19 0.88%	11
Public Cloud	117	Down 37 places-37	£650	+44.44%	19 0.88%	16
Virtual Team	117	Down 35 places-35	£525	+21.38%	19 0.88%	23
Data Centre	118	Down 55 places-55	£650	+30.00%	18 0.83%	62
Self-Motivation	119	Down 38 places-38	£525	+15.06%	17 0.79%	70
Replication	120	Down 34 places-34	£500	+5.26%	16 0.74%	12
Low-Code	121	Down 39 places-39	£500	+25.00%	15 0.70%	17
Operational Technology	121	New entry-	£550	-	15 0.70%	20
Greenfield Project	121	Down 43 places-43	£450	-20.00%	15 0.70%	11
PKI	122	Down 32 places-32	£525	+50.00%	14 0.65%	2
Credit Risk	122	Down 32 places-32	£600	+90.47%	14 0.65%	3
Web Conferencing	123	Down 35 places-35	£376	+95.06%	13 0.60%	21
Hybrid Cloud	125	Down 56 places-56	£550	-10.20%	11 0.51%	20
Enterprise Cloud	125	New entry-	£605	-	11 0.51%	9
Podcast	126	New entry-	-	-	10 0.46%	9
Distributed Architecture	127	New entry-	£465	-	9 0.42%	4
Blackberry	127	New entry-	£380	-	9 0.42%
FMCG	127	Down 41 places-41	£613	+30.66%	9 0.42%	11
Educational Technology	128	Down 38 places-38	£450	+5.88%	8 0.37%	4
Life Science	128	Down 40 places-40	£475	-	8 0.37%	27
Private Cloud	128	Down 44 places-44	£525	+2.68%	8 0.37%	15
Mainframe	128	Down 50 places-50	£575	+78.29%	8 0.37%	2
SCADA	129	New entry-	£600	-	7 0.32%	18
Reference Data	129	New entry-	£426	-	7 0.32%	5
Handset	129	New entry-	£512	-	7 0.32%
Cyber Threat	129	Down 40 places-40	£725	+41.46%	7 0.32%	28
Analytical Mindset	129	Down 45 places-45	£425	-34.61%	7 0.32%	10
Freedom of Information	129	Down 39 places-39	£450	-21.73%	7 0.32%	4
Animation	130	New entry-	£500	-	6 0.28%	5
Marketing Technology	130	New entry-	£492	-	6 0.28%	25
Culture of Ownership	131	New entry-	£694	-	5 0.23%	6
CCTV	131	New entry-	-	-	5 0.23%	15
Foreign Exchange (FX)	131	Down 46 places-46	£318	-25.93%	5 0.23%	4
Housing Association	131	Down 42 places-42	£440	-	5 0.23%	3