Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	42	Up 26 places+26	£525	+5.00%	378 4.96%	84
Onboarding	62	No change0	£501	+11.33%	294 3.86%	121
Product Ownership	77	Down 17 places-17	£493	-3.90%	237 3.11%	90
Data Protection Act	97	Down 4 places-4	£500	+11.11%	202 2.65%	4
Data Centre	101	Down 26 places-26	£507	+3.25%	194 2.54%	46
Management Information System	102	Up 14 places+14	£447	-10.77%	193 2.53%	115
Enterprise Software	137	Up 17 places+17	£482	+36.15%	140 1.84%	53
AI Agents	141	Up 50 places+50	£525	+17.97%	133 1.74%	74
Distributed Systems	143	No change0	£506	+0.19%	130 1.71%	31
NHS	145	Down 22 places-22	£454	-9.20%	128 1.68%	69
Legacy Systems	159	Down 31 places-31	£540	+2.85%	109 1.43%	18
Virtual Team	174	Down 13 places-13	£544	+20.77%	93 1.22%	11
Data Structures	176	Down 23 places-23	£463	-	91 1.19%	23
Public Cloud	179	Down 43 places-43	£600	+26.31%	88 1.15%	6
Self-Motivation	182	Down 23 places-23	£525	+13.20%	85 1.11%	63
PKI	188	No change0	£550	+10.00%	79 1.04%	9
Driving Licence	190	Down 49 places-49	£225	+37.90%	77 1.01%	164
Operational Technology	194	Down 11 places-11	£550	+22.63%	73 0.96%	60
Mainframe	194	Down 40 places-40	£550	+56.36%	73 0.96%	5
Security Posture	196	Down 25 places-25	£525	-8.69%	71 0.93%	24
Replication	204	Down 18 places-18	£507	+12.66%	63 0.83%	6
Hybrid Cloud	206	Down 57 places-57	£550	-8.33%	61 0.80%	12
Mobile App	206	Down 75 places-75	£525	+35.48%	61 0.80%	42
CMDB	207	Down 31 places-31	£518	+15.00%	60 0.79%	9
Web Conferencing	211	Down 22 places-22	£376	+95.06%	56 0.73%	13
Clustering	217	Down 36 places-36	£566	+37.67%	50 0.66%	3
Podcast	217	New entry-	-	-	50 0.66%	3
Private Cloud	225	Down 39 places-39	£518	+15.88%	42 0.55%	14
Greenfield Project	226	Down 54 places-54	£575	-	41 0.54%	16
SCADA	227	Down 39 places-39	£650	+13.04%	40 0.52%	50
Life Science	232	Down 36 places-36	£450	-	35 0.46%	19
Enterprise Cloud	236	Down 42 places-42	£605	+72.85%	31 0.41%	3
Analytical Mindset	236	Down 83 places-83	£190	-65.45%	31 0.41%	10
Enterprise Storage	240	Down 43 places-43	£519	-5.63%	27 0.35%	5
IVR	243	Down 51 places-51	£500	+12.67%	24 0.31%
Low-Code	243	Down 69 places-69	£498	+24.37%	24 0.31%	20
Cyber Threat	245	Down 59 places-59	£525	+4.64%	22 0.29%	59
Credit Risk	246	Down 57 places-57	£575	+3.32%	21 0.28%
Marketing Technology	246	New entry-	£492	-	21 0.28%	9
FMCG	246	Down 57 places-57	£475	-5.00%	21 0.28%	32
Linux Command Line	248	New entry-	£518	-	19 0.25%	16
Legacy Applications	248	Down 57 places-57	£513	-14.40%	19 0.25%	6
Social Media	248	Down 54 places-54	£501	+75.11%	19 0.25%	16
Taxonomies	249	Down 60 places-60	£525	+6.06%	18 0.24%	2
Algorithms	249	Down 81 places-81	£381	-33.73%	18 0.24%	37
Security Operations Centre	250	Down 63 places-63	£540	-8.08%	17 0.22%	22
EPoS	250	Down 80 places-80	£155	-4.69%	17 0.22%	16
Blog	251	Down 54 places-54	£425	+25.36%	16 0.21%	6
Learning Management System	253	Down 59 places-59	£625	+38.88%	14 0.18%	9
Video Conferencing	253	Down 60 places-60	£369	+110.71%	14 0.18%	5