Contract Development Application Statistics in the North West

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Git	76	Down 27 places-27	£500	+24.37%	120 3.01%	53
JIRA	79	Down 47 places-47	£470	+7.12%	116 2.91%	32
GitLab	98	Down 24 places-24	£569	+42.25%	88 2.20%	16
Jenkins	108	Down 57 places-57	£425	-	76 1.90%	20
Claude Code	153	New entry-	£450	-	30 0.75%	7
Selenium	159	Down 48 places-48	£402	+18.23%	24 0.60%	5
Cucumber	160	Down 42 places-42	£401	+3.48%	23 0.58%	3
REST Assured	161	Down 28 places-28	£510	+50.00%	22 0.55%	1
JUnit	164	Down 53 places-53	£477	+29.83%	19 0.48%	2
Mockito	168	Down 38 places-38	£537	+89.08%	15 0.38%
SonarQube	169	Down 58 places-58	£537	+33.58%	14 0.35%	4
Postman	169	Down 46 places-46	£393	-1.75%	14 0.35%	2
Sonatype Nexus	170	Down 57 places-57	£519	+44.83%	13 0.33%	4
Fiddler	173	Down 45 places-45	-	-	10 0.25%
Maven	173	Down 55 places-55	£519	+44.83%	10 0.25%
Gradle	174	Down 64 places-64	£537	+43.20%	9 0.23%
Cypress.io	174	Down 51 places-51	£400	-5.88%	9 0.23%	6
Rational DOORS	176	Down 47 places-47	£588	-9.61%	7 0.18%	6
Gatling	176	Down 40 places-40	£560	+64.70%	7 0.18%	1
fastlane	177	New entry-	£400	-	6 0.15%
NUnit	178	Down 41 places-41	£344	-37.45%	5 0.13%	1
Zephyr	178	Down 43 places-43	£431	+7.81%	5 0.13%
MSTest	178	New entry-	£344	-	5 0.13%	1
Bitbucket	178	Down 57 places-57	£402	+10.74%	5 0.13%	5
MSI	179	Down 42 places-42	£450	-	4 0.10%
TestRail	179	Down 44 places-44	£325	+20.37%	4 0.10%	1
Appium	179	Down 44 places-44	£400	+23.07%	4 0.10%	1
JMeter	179	Down 43 places-43	£402	+23.69%	4 0.10%
CocoaPods	179	New entry-	-	-	4 0.10%
Xcode	179	Down 54 places-54	£400	+6.66%	4 0.10%
TestNG	179	New entry-	£390	-	4 0.10%
Bitbucket Server	179	Down 56 places-56	£537	+33.58%	4 0.10%
LoadRunner	180	New entry-	£451	-	3 0.075%
Serenity BDD	180	New entry-	£630	-	3 0.075%
WebDriver	180	New entry-	£275	-	3 0.075%	1
SpecFlow	180	Down 44 places-44	£365	-44.90%	3 0.075%	1
XCUITest	180	New entry-	£400	-	3 0.075%
Visual Studio Code	180	Down 44 places-44	£330	-8.07%	3 0.075%	1
Visual Studio	180	New entry-	£344	-	3 0.075%	2
Hudson	180	Down 46 places-46	£500	+25.00%	3 0.075%
Ranorex	180	New entry-	£365	-	3 0.075%
Burp Suite	180	New entry-	£460	-	3 0.075%
Toad	180	New entry-	£525	-	3 0.075%
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)	181	New entry-	-	-	2 0.050%
XCTest	181	New entry-	£400	-	2 0.050%
ClearCase	181	New entry-	-	-	2 0.050%
Eclipse	181	Down 47 places-47	£550	+61.76%	2 0.050%	1
Charles Proxy	181	New entry-	£575	-	2 0.050%
JDeveloper	181	New entry-	-	-	2 0.050%
Rational Robot	182	New entry-	-	-	1 0.025%