Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Manchester

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Agile	2	Up 2 places+2	£538	+22.15%	349 17.01%	290
Stakeholder Management	4	Up 10 places+10	£545	+9.00%	341 16.62%	203
CI/CD	7	Up 6 places+6	£525	+5.00%	312 15.20%	208
AI	11	Up 29 places+29	£500	-11.11%	250 12.18%	426
Software Engineering	13	Up 19 places+19	£557	+1.27%	225 10.96%	224
DevOps	14	Down 2 places-2	£518	+3.50%	224 10.92%	173
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 4 places+4	£525	+27.27%	201 9.80%	285
Problem-Solving	18	Down 10 places-10	£488	+8.33%	196 9.55%	319
Migration	20	Up 9 places+9	£540	+10.20%	191 9.31%	76
Analytics	25	Down 2 places-2	£506	+6.57%	152 7.41%	184
Roadmaps	26	Up 16 places+16	£564	+12.75%	146 7.12%	157
Stakeholder Engagement	28	Down 3 places-3	£500	-9.09%	138 6.73%	83
Test Automation	29	Up 13 places+13	£500	+24.22%	136 6.63%	98
Decision-Making	32	Up 9 places+9	£525	+16.66%	125 6.09%	203
Infrastructure as Code	33	Up 8 places+8	£538	+2.38%	124 6.04%	115
Data Modelling	33	Up 2 places+2	£506	+12.50%	124 6.04%	77
Microservices	34	Down 3 places-3	£500	-	122 5.95%	65
Observability	40	Up 26 places+26	£560	+6.66%	110 5.36%	78
Business Intelligence	41	Down 15 places-15	£500	+25.00%	109 5.31%	78
Technical Leadership	43	Up 7 places+7	£575	-2.12%	101 4.92%	117
User Experience	44	Down 18 places-18	£500	+21.95%	100 4.87%	64
ITIL	45	Down 18 places-18	£475	+5.90%	99 4.82%	67
Validation	49	Up 5 places+5	£450	+25.00%	94 4.58%	95
Cybersecurity	50	Down 5 places-5	£530	-5.77%	92 4.48%	153
Event-Driven	53	Up 13 places+13	£560	+3.94%	88 4.29%	48
Mentoring	55	Down 21 places-21	£550	+10.00%	82 4.00%	241
Project Management	57	Down 27 places-27	£500	+8.34%	80 3.90%	79
Change Management	60	Down 32 places-32	£447	-3.87%	75 3.66%	44
ERP	61	Up 2 places+2	£463	-23.07%	74 3.61%	58
Workshop Facilitation	63	Up 10 places+10	£550	+4.76%	71 3.46%	51
Full-Stack Development	65	Down 7 places-7	£557	+39.25%	68 3.31%	90
Root Cause Analysis	65	Up 1 place+1	£435	-15.12%	68 3.31%	36
Machine Learning	66	Down 4 places-4	£488	+2.63%	67 3.27%	107
Project Delivery	67	Down 16 places-16	£525	+10.52%	64 3.12%	81
Containerisation	67	Down 33 places-33	£550	-	64 3.12%	54
Data Migration	67	Up 2 places+2	£488	+14.70%	64 3.12%	35
Event-Driven Architecture	68	Up 2 places+2	£550	-1.78%	63 3.07%	25
ETL	69	Down 13 places-13	£475	-5.00%	62 3.02%	47
Data Protection	70	Down 24 places-24	£450	-0.82%	61 2.97%	35
Cloud Security	71	Down 1 place-1	£545	+21.11%	60 2.92%	42
Performance Tuning	71	Down 3 places-3	£425	+8.97%	60 2.92%	21
Risk Management	71	Down 38 places-38	£525	+10.52%	60 2.92%	50
E-Commerce	72	Down 5 places-5	£575	+21.05%	59 2.88%	33
Platform Engineering	73	Down 14 places-14	£575	+17.94%	57 2.78%	64
Customer Service	73	Down 32 places-32	£375	+92.30%	57 2.78%	85
User Acceptance Testing	73	Down 17 places-17	£463	+2.77%	57 2.78%	23
Scrum	74	Down 28 places-28	£500	+20.48%	56 2.73%	75
Infrastructure Engineering	74	Down 9 places-9	£517	-15.59%	56 2.73%	47
Data Analysis	74	Down 18 places-18	£438	+39.77%	56 2.73%	39
Generative AI	75	Down 5 places-5	£451	-9.35%	55 2.68%	67