Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North West

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	46	Up 10 places+10	£525	+16.66%	177 4.43%	50
Cloud Native	54	Up 27 places+27	£563	+12.50%	157 3.93%	40
Management Information System	55	Up 35 places+35	£408	-18.50%	156 3.90%	69
Product Ownership	101	Down 42 places-42	£510	+2.00%	88 2.20%	42
Data Protection Act	111	Down 4 places-4	£475	+9.82%	76 1.90%	2
AI Agents	113	Up 26 places+26	£500	+13.63%	73 1.83%	28
Distributed Systems	116	Up 10 places+10	£560	+8.21%	70 1.75%	11
Legacy Systems	119	Down 1 place-1	£525	+10.52%	67 1.68%	6
Enterprise Software	121	Up 1 place+1	£465	+32.85%	65 1.63%	20
Data Centre	122	Down 48 places-48	£538	-0.92%	64 1.60%	24
Security Posture	138	Down 4 places-4	£513	-8.88%	48 1.20%	13
Operational Technology	142	Down 6 places-6	£500	+13.05%	44 1.10%	29
Driving Licence	143	Down 25 places-25	£225	+32.35%	43 1.08%	96
CMDB	147	Down 15 places-15	£593	+32.55%	39 0.98%	3
Data Structures	150	Down 31 places-31	£537	+16.10%	36 0.90%	6
Self-Motivation	150	Down 22 places-22	£525	+20.34%	36 0.90%	41
Mobile App	150	Down 35 places-35	£550	+47.65%	36 0.90%	12
PKI	153	Down 18 places-18	£525	+18.30%	33 0.83%	3
Clustering	154	Down 21 places-21	£500	+44.30%	32 0.80%	1
Replication	155	Down 19 places-19	£525	+16.66%	31 0.78%	6
Virtual Team	156	Down 27 places-27	£500	+19.90%	30 0.75%	5
Public Cloud	156	Down 23 places-23	£625	+38.88%	30 0.75%	3
NHS	156	Down 24 places-24	£375	-16.66%	30 0.75%	19
Web Conferencing	160	Down 22 places-22	£376	+95.06%	26 0.65%	7
Hybrid Cloud	161	Down 48 places-48	£550	-8.33%	25 0.63%	12
IVR	163	Down 25 places-25	£500	-9.09%	23 0.58%
Cyber Threat	164	Down 30 places-30	£525	+1.80%	22 0.55%	17
Enterprise Cloud	165	New entry-	£605	-	21 0.53%	1
Life Science	165	Down 24 places-24	£475	-5.00%	21 0.53%	6
Greenfield Project	165	Down 33 places-33	£488	-13.33%	21 0.53%	3
Credit Risk	166	Down 27 places-27	£600	+20.96%	20 0.50%	1
Analytical Mindset	166	Down 46 places-46	£459	-0.21%	20 0.50%	5
Podcast	166	New entry-	-	-	20 0.50%
Low-Code	168	Down 41 places-41	£498	+17.05%	18 0.45%	9
FMCG	169	Down 30 places-30	£475	-5.00%	17 0.43%	12
Private Cloud	171	Down 36 places-36	£500	+11.85%	15 0.38%	9
Legacy Applications	173	Down 32 places-32	£500	-16.66%	13 0.33%	3
Algorithms	175	Down 36 places-36	£398	+121.11%	11 0.28%	12
Security Operations Centre	175	Down 41 places-41	£500	-16.66%	11 0.28%	3
SCADA	175	Down 36 places-36	£625	+78.57%	11 0.28%	24
Mainframe	176	Down 43 places-43	£550	+61.76%	10 0.25%
Learning Management System	176	Down 37 places-37	£625	+37.36%	10 0.25%	3
Educational Technology	177	Down 33 places-33	£450	+5.88%	9 0.23%
Blackberry	177	Down 33 places-33	£380	-30.90%	9 0.23%
Social Media	177	Down 34 places-34	£155	-	9 0.23%	11
Taxonomies	177	Down 39 places-39	£525	+6.06%	9 0.23%	2
Marketing Technology	178	New entry-	£492	-	8 0.20%	8
Distributed Architecture	178	New entry-	£484	-	8 0.20%	2
EPoS	178	Down 44 places-44	£155	-8.62%	8 0.20%	5
CCTV	179	New entry-	-	-	7 0.18%	23