Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in the North East

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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
Agile	1	Up 4 places+4	£425	-5.55%	220 26.35%	67
CI/CD	6	Up 1 place+1	£426	-12.71%	133 15.93%	52
DevOps	8	Up 8 places+8	£450	-18.18%	108 12.93%	47
Test Automation	10	Up 1 place+1	£450	-6.49%	93 11.14%	28
Continuous Improvement	11	Up 12 places+12	£470	-3.58%	91 10.90%	93
Problem-Solving	12	Down 1 place-1	£375	-16.66%	90 10.78%	110
Stakeholder Management	13	Up 10 places+10	£500	+5.26%	89 10.66%	34
Scrum	17	Up 17 places+17	£450	-14.28%	80 9.58%	15
Infrastructure as Code	18	Down 1 place-1	£466	-8.12%	79 9.46%	28
Stakeholder Engagement	19	Up 5 places+5	£453	-2.84%	78 9.34%	23
Analytics	20	Up 19 places+19	£450	+9.09%	74 8.86%	30
Software Engineering	24	Up 2 places+2	£508	+4.10%	64 7.66%	49
Migration	24	No change0	£490	-0.75%	64 7.66%	29
Mentoring	26	Up 2 places+2	£463	-15.90%	60 7.19%	48
User Research	28	Up 7 places+7	£325	-22.38%	58 6.95%	7
Containerisation	28	Down 3 places-3	£425	-12.82%	58 6.95%	11
Infrastructure Engineering	30	Up 14 places+14	£600	+18.11%	54 6.47%	7
Digital Transformation Programme	31	No change0	£425	-17.47%	53 6.35%	16
Decision-Making	31	Up 9 places+9	£510	+7.36%	53 6.35%	37
User-Centered Design (UCD)	34	Down 4 places-4	£425	-5.55%	47 5.63%	8
User Experience	34	Up 6 places+6	£325	-21.21%	47 5.63%	14
SDLC	36	Up 5 places+5	£400	-27.27%	45 5.39%	18
Microservices	36	Down 26 places-26	£460	-16.36%	45 5.39%	14
Customer Service	36	Down 16 places-16	£341	+153.56%	45 5.39%	41
DevSecOps	39	Up 3 places+3	£511	-1.68%	42 5.03%	7
TDD	39	Down 18 places-18	£450	-8.86%	42 5.03%	5
Validation	39	Down 4 places-4	£400	-22.33%	42 5.03%	25
SFIA	40	Up 1 place+1	£470	-11.52%	39 4.67%
Roadmaps	41	Down 6 places-6	£575	+24.66%	38 4.55%	36
Data Modelling	42	Up 1 place+1	£463	-15.90%	37 4.43%	16
AI	43	Down 3 places-3	£575	+13.48%	36 4.31%	84
Data Engineering	45	Down 8 places-8	£425	-	34 4.07%	19
Sprint Planning	46	Down 5 places-5	£350	-34.88%	33 3.95%	4
Data Migration	46	Down 2 places-2	£550	+25.71%	33 3.95%	10
Data Protection	46	Down 22 places-22	£463	+19.35%	33 3.95%	11
Unit Testing	47	Down 5 places-5	£400	-27.27%	32 3.83%	7
Collaborative Working	48	Down 5 places-5	£400	-3.03%	31 3.71%	27
Business Intelligence	49	Down 23 places-23	£375	+32.74%	30 3.59%	23
Front End Development	49	Down 7 places-7	£470	-	30 3.59%	9
Kanban	49	Down 4 places-4	£450	-17.24%	30 3.59%	2
Technical Leadership	51	Down 16 places-16	£523	-7.11%	28 3.35%	38
ITIL	51	Down 10 places-10	£375	-5.66%	28 3.35%	24
ERP	51	Down 9 places-9	£550	+10.00%	28 3.35%	35
Observability	51	Down 10 places-10	£500	-16.66%	28 3.35%	18
Data Governance	51	Down 11 places-11	£525	-10.63%	28 3.35%	15
Sprint Review	53	Down 8 places-8	£430	-	26 3.11%	2
Continuous Integration	53	Down 16 places-16	£470	-9.61%	26 3.11%	1
Workshop Facilitation	54	Down 17 places-17	£481	+5.47%	25 2.99%	6
Actionable Insight	55	Down 14 places-14	£475	+11.76%	24 2.87%	5
Service Delivery	55	Down 21 places-21	£550	+15.78%	24 2.87%	16