Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Newport

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Jan 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Agile	5	+7	£675	+18.68%	10 22.73%	69
DevOps	6	+8	£675	+10.20%	9 20.45%	52
Test Automation	7	+8	£675	+10.20%	8 18.18%	33
Test Strategy	9	-	£675	-	6 13.64%	7
Unit Testing	9	+7	£725	-	6 13.64%	8
Architectural Design	9	-	£675	-	6 13.64%	1
Design Patterns	9	+8	£675	+12.50%	6 13.64%	12
Data Modelling	10	+7	£700	-	5 11.36%	10
Problem-Solving	10	-6	£406	-	5 11.36%	73
Acceptance Criteria	10	-	£675	-	5 11.36%	7
Non-Functional Testing	10	-	£700	-	5 11.36%	2
User Experience	11	-	£519	-	4 9.09%	17
Cybersecurity	11	-1	-	-	4 9.09%	30
Machine Learning	11	+4	£700	+285.14%	4 9.09%	38
Infrastructure Engineering	11	+5	£550	+50.68%	4 9.09%	8
UX Design	11	-	£519	-	4 9.09%	6
AI	11	+5	£700	+285.14%	4 9.09%	106
Risk Management	11	-	£413	-	4 9.09%	6
Security Management	12	-	-	-	3 6.82%
Disaster Recovery	12	-	£481	-	3 6.82%
TOGAF	12	-	-	-	3 6.82%	1
Scrum	12	-	£400	-	3 6.82%	16
Information Security	12	-	-	-	3 6.82%	8
Information Assurance	12	-	-	-	3 6.82%
Security Architecture	12	-	-	-	3 6.82%	3
Analytics	12	+3	£588	+167.04%	3 6.82%	44
SABSA	12	-	-	-	3 6.82%
Project Delivery	12	+4	£544	-	3 6.82%	14
User Research	12	+5	£588	-	3 6.82%	1
Systems Engineering	12	-	-	-	3 6.82%	7
User-Centered Design (UCD)	12	-	£588	-	3 6.82%	1
CI/CD	13	-1	-	-	2 4.55%	63
Zero Trust	13	-	£550	-	2 4.55%
Collaborative Working	13	-1	£588	-24.19%	2 4.55%	15
Data-Driven Decision Making	13	-	£588	-	2 4.55%	5
High-Fidelity Prototypes	13	-	£588	-	2 4.55%	1
Performance Optimisation	13	-	-	-	2 4.55%	18
Wireframes	13	-	£588	-	2 4.55%	1
SDLC	13	+3	£450	-25.00%	2 4.55%	17
Microservices	13	-	-	-	2 4.55%	26
SIEM	13	-	-	-	2 4.55%	3
SOA	13	-	-	-	2 4.55%	2
System Testing	13	-	£276	-	2 4.55%	3
Release Management	13	-	-	-	2 4.55%	4
User Acceptance Testing	13	-	£276	-	2 4.55%	6
Usability Testing	13	-	£588	-	2 4.55%
MVC	13	-	£450	-	2 4.55%	5
Service Delivery	13	+1	£293	-26.87%	2 4.55%	6
CRM	13	+4	-	-	2 4.55%	41
ITIL	14	-7	£160	-56.16%	1 2.27%	9