Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Manchester

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	39	Up 5 places+5	£563	+7.14%	115 5.56%	40
Onboarding	42	Up 7 places+7	£513	+24.24%	111 5.37%	50
AI Agents	65	Up 20 places+20	£500	-32.38%	69 3.34%	40
Product Ownership	72	Down 20 places-20	£510	+13.33%	60 2.90%	41
Distributed Systems	81	No change0	£569	+3.40%	50 2.42%	15
Legacy Systems	89	Down 18 places-18	£540	+16.75%	42 2.03%	5
Data Protection Act	90	Down 32 places-32	£450	+2.85%	41 1.98%
Management Information System	91	Down 11 places-11	£447	-33.77%	40 1.94%	45
Enterprise Software	95	Down 12 places-12	£500	+15.60%	36 1.74%	23
Security Posture	105	Down 22 places-22	£550	-2.22%	26 1.26%	12
Mobile App	105	Down 26 places-26	£550	+65.66%	26 1.26%	13
IVR	108	Down 24 places-24	£500	-	23 1.11%
NHS	108	Down 25 places-25	£388	-26.19%	23 1.11%	19
Data Centre	111	Down 51 places-51	£600	+20.00%	20 0.97%	24
Clustering	111	Down 34 places-34	£450	+29.87%	20 0.97%	1
CMDB	112	Down 29 places-29	£625	+38.88%	19 0.92%	2
Virtual Team	113	Down 31 places-31	£525	+21.52%	18 0.87%	6
Self-Motivation	114	Down 35 places-35	£525	+15.06%	17 0.82%	26
Public Cloud	114	Down 36 places-36	£625	+38.88%	17 0.82%	3
Driving Licence	114	Down 33 places-33	£225	+38.03%	17 0.82%	40
Replication	114	Down 31 places-31	£500	+5.26%	17 0.82%	6
Greenfield Project	116	Down 41 places-41	£450	-20.00%	15 0.73%	10
Low-Code	117	Down 38 places-38	£498	+24.37%	14 0.68%	11
PKI	117	Down 30 places-30	£522	+49.14%	14 0.68%	7
Credit Risk	117	Down 30 places-30	£600	+90.47%	14 0.68%	1
Data Structures	117	Down 41 places-41	£600	+33.33%	14 0.68%	16
Operational Technology	118	New entry-	£525	-	13 0.63%	12
Web Conferencing	118	Down 33 places-33	£376	+95.06%	13 0.63%	6
Hybrid Cloud	120	Down 54 places-54	£550	-10.20%	11 0.53%	12
Enterprise Cloud	120	New entry-	£605	-	11 0.53%	1
Podcast	121	New entry-	-	-	10 0.48%	1
Distributed Architecture	122	New entry-	£465	-	9 0.44%	2
Blackberry	122	New entry-	£380	-	9 0.44%
Mainframe	122	Down 42 places-42	£550	+75.71%	9 0.44%	2
FMCG	122	Down 38 places-38	£613	+30.66%	9 0.44%	4
Educational Technology	123	Down 36 places-36	£450	+5.88%	8 0.39%
Cyber Threat	124	Down 38 places-38	£725	+41.46%	7 0.34%	16
Analytical Mindset	124	Down 43 places-43	£425	-34.61%	7 0.34%	6
Private Cloud	124	Down 43 places-43	£525	+2.68%	7 0.34%	7
Reference Data	124	New entry-	£426	-	7 0.34%	2
Handset	124	New entry-	£512	-	7 0.34%
Marketing Technology	125	New entry-	£492	-	6 0.29%	8
Legacy Applications	125	Down 41 places-41	£500	-16.31%	6 0.29%
Animation	125	New entry-	£500	-	6 0.29%	1
SCADA	125	New entry-	£650	-	6 0.29%	5
Life Science	125	Down 41 places-41	£475	-5.00%	6 0.29%	10
Culture of Ownership	126	New entry-	£694	-	5 0.24%	1
Analogue Electronics	127	Down 40 places-40	-	-	4 0.19%	13
Social Media	127	Down 41 places-41	-	-	4 0.19%	7
Housing Association	127	Down 41 places-41	£440	-	4 0.19%	4