Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in the North West

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	5	Up 6 places+6	£515	+3.00%	610 15.27%	199
Agile	8	Down 2 places-2	£500	+12.35%	487 12.19%	243
CI/CD	10	Up 6 places+6	£525	+14.13%	419 10.49%	179
Problem-Solving	11	Down 4 places-4	£450	-1.63%	412 10.31%	345
Continuous Improvement	12	Up 12 places+12	£510	+14.99%	396 9.91%	263
AI	15	Up 38 places+38	£513	+7.32%	371 9.28%	778
Migration	16	Up 7 places+7	£537	+18.02%	348 8.71%	66
DevOps	20	Down 6 places-6	£500	+11.11%	321 8.03%	148
Cybersecurity	23	Up 17 places+17	£525	-0.94%	299 7.48%	209
ITIL	26	Up 3 places+3	£456	+1.33%	262 6.56%	70
Software Engineering	27	Up 36 places+36	£550	+2.32%	258 6.46%	187
Stakeholder Engagement	28	Up 5 places+5	£500	-4.76%	257 6.43%	85
Roadmaps	32	Up 13 places+13	£575	+15.00%	239 5.98%	119
Analytics	33	Down 1 place-1	£516	+8.59%	237 5.93%	162
Customer Service	36	Down 3 places-3	£225	+37.12%	214 5.36%	136
Infrastructure as Code	37	Up 37 places+37	£556	+11.25%	204 5.11%	101
Decision-Making	39	Up 20 places+20	£525	+14.75%	198 4.96%	174
Validation	39	Up 29 places+29	£470	+10.58%	198 4.96%	100
Test Automation	43	Up 6 places+6	£475	+18.75%	187 4.68%	99
Project Delivery	44	Up 5 places+5	£523	+11.81%	183 4.58%	82
Change Management	46	Down 16 places-16	£492	+10.93%	172 4.30%	58
Service Management	47	Down 11 places-11	£500	+7.41%	171 4.28%	67
Business Intelligence	48	Down 4 places-4	£475	+13.43%	168 4.20%	98
Data Protection	51	Up 21 places+21	£450	+4.34%	162 4.05%	45
Infrastructure Engineering	51	Up 52 places+52	£525	+11.22%	162 4.05%	55
Data Modelling	52	Up 8 places+8	£500	+6.38%	160 4.00%	62
Mentoring	56	Down 5 places-5	£528	+14.67%	155 3.88%	199
Observability	57	Up 38 places+38	£538	+34.37%	152 3.80%	60
ERP	58	Up 14 places+14	£525	+2.43%	150 3.75%	47
Project Management	59	Down 31 places-31	£500	+0.80%	148 3.70%	88
Microservices	60	Down 17 places-17	£500	+14.94%	147 3.68%	58
Technical Leadership	60	Up 23 places+23	£575	-	147 3.68%	98
User Experience	62	Down 23 places-23	£425	+3.65%	145 3.63%	51
Risk Management	63	Down 14 places-14	£525	+6.11%	144 3.60%	48
Incident Management	72	Up 26 places+26	£483	-3.40%	124 3.10%	31
User Acceptance Testing	73	Down 8 places-8	£475	+5.55%	122 3.05%	29
ITSM	74	Down 28 places-28	£500	-	120 3.00%	44
Root Cause Analysis	75	Up 35 places+35	£427	+9.06%	118 2.95%	35
Workshop Facilitation	77	Up 18 places+18	£515	+3.00%	116 2.90%	30
Cloud Security	80	Up 9 places+9	£550	+22.22%	111 2.78%	36
Incident Response	83	Down 19 places-19	£500	+5.26%	107 2.68%	54
Event-Driven	86	Up 27 places+27	£550	+2.08%	103 2.58%	40
Data Migration	88	Up 10 places+10	£538	+25.29%	99 2.48%	22
CRM	89	Up 1 place+1	£500	+17.64%	98 2.45%	62
Generative AI	89	Up 19 places+19	£525	+9.37%	98 2.45%	65
Process Improvement	90	Down 37 places-37	£440	-12.00%	97 2.43%	49
Coaching	95	Down 35 places-35	£530	+17.77%	92 2.30%	139
Data Analysis	95	Up 1 place+1	£451	+36.00%	92 2.30%	44
Scrum	97	Down 40 places-40	£525	+24.70%	90 2.25%	61
Machine Learning	99	Down 9 places-9	£599	+33.09%	88 2.20%	91