Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Merton

Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Software Engineering	3	0	-	-	12 34.29%	5
Agile	4	-	£400	-	10 28.57%	2
Scrum	5	-2	-	-	9 25.71%
DevSecOps	6	-	-	-	5 14.29%
Problem-Solving	6	-4	£300	-4.00%	5 14.29%	1
Database Tuning	8	-	£300	-	3 8.57%
Test Automation	8	-2	-	-	3 8.57%
High Availability	8	-	£300	-	3 8.57%
Database Security	8	-	£300	-	3 8.57%
Performance Tuning	8	-	£300	-	3 8.57%
DevOps	8	-	£300	-	3 8.57%
Performance Optimisation	8	-	£300	-	3 8.57%	1
Customer Service	8	-3	£190	-12.64%	3 8.57%
Technical Leadership	8	-	-	-	3 8.57%	12
ITIL	9	-	£190	-	2 5.71%
CI/CD	9	-6	-	-	2 5.71%	9
Asset Management	9	-	£190	-	2 5.71%
Process Improvement	9	-	£190	-	2 5.71%
ITSM	9	-4	£190	-12.64%	2 5.71%
Service Management	9	-4	£190	-12.64%	2 5.71%
UML	9	-	-	-	2 5.71%
Configuration Management	9	-	-	-	2 5.71%	2
PRINCE2	10	-	£400	-	1 2.86%
Project Management	10	-	£400	-	1 2.86%	2
Change Management	10	-	£400	-	1 2.86%
Stakeholder Management	10	-	£363	-	1 2.86%	2
Ergonomics	10	-	-	-	1 2.86%
Human Factors	10	-	-	-	1 2.86%
Performance Testing	10	-	-	-	1 2.86%
Test Management	10	-4	£363	-12.12%	1 2.86%	1
Test Scripting	10	-	£363	-	1 2.86%	1
Continuous Integration	10	-	-	-	1 2.86%
Data Protection	10	-4	-	-	1 2.86%	1
Information Assurance	10	-	-	-	1 2.86%
Continuous Improvement	10	-	£400	-	1 2.86%	1
Technical Analysis	10	-	-	-	1 2.86%
Contract Management	10	-	£400	-	1 2.86%
Infrastructure Engineering	10	-4	£425	+13.33%	1 2.86%	1
Emotional Intelligence	10	-	£400	-	1 2.86%
Containerisation	10	-	-	-	1 2.86%	1
End-to-End Testing	10	-	£363	-	1 2.86%	1
Cloud Security	10	-	£425	-	1 2.86%	1