Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in the North of England

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	4	Up 11 places+11	£500	-	1,206 15.92%	229
Agile	5	Down 2 places-2	£500	+5.26%	1,179 15.56%	302
CI/CD	7	Up 4 places+4	£500	+1.83%	1,034 13.65%	220
Problem-Solving	12	Down 5 places-5	£450	-5.26%	802 10.58%	481
Continuous Improvement	13	Up 15 places+15	£500	+11.11%	788 10.40%	367
DevOps	14	Down 5 places-5	£500	+2.04%	785 10.36%	202
AI	20	Up 53 places+53	£516	+4.85%	666 8.79%	365
Migration	22	No change0	£525	+9.37%	632 8.34%	100
Stakeholder Engagement	25	Up 6 places+6	£500	-2.91%	540 7.13%	128
Cybersecurity	26	Up 10 places+10	£525	+0.96%	533 7.03%	286
Roadmaps	29	Up 19 places+19	£554	+10.88%	504 6.65%	168
Infrastructure as Code	32	Up 12 places+12	£500	-	497 6.56%	124
Software Engineering	33	Up 18 places+18	£500	-4.30%	493 6.51%	225
Analytics	34	Up 9 places+9	£490	+3.15%	487 6.43%	178
Test Automation	36	Down 1 place-1	£459	-3.42%	463 6.11%	131
ITIL	39	No change0	£460	+18.70%	397 5.24%	95
Decision-Making	40	Up 9 places+9	£520	+9.93%	394 5.20%	233
Observability	41	Up 71 places+71	£513	+2.50%	393 5.19%	77
Validation	42	Up 48 places+48	£463	+7.55%	391 5.16%	131
Data Protection	43	Up 16 places+16	£475	+4.57%	384 5.07%	52
Microservices	49	Down 15 places-15	£500	-	342 4.51%	64
Customer Service	51	Down 5 places-5	£230	+31.42%	334 4.41%	173
Infrastructure Engineering	53	Up 76 places+76	£525	+5.00%	317 4.18%	66
Change Management	55	Down 12 places-12	£500	+11.11%	315 4.16%	60
Technical Leadership	57	Up 48 places+48	£550	-4.34%	311 4.10%	145
Data Modelling	58	Up 21 places+21	£480	+1.05%	309 4.08%	78
Project Delivery	59	Up 6 places+6	£500	+5.26%	307 4.05%	120
Mentoring	61	Down 12 places-12	£507	+0.79%	302 3.99%	222
Service Management	62	Down 9 places-9	£485	+6.30%	297 3.92%	83
Risk Management	63	Down 1 place-1	£500	-	294 3.88%	69
Business Intelligence	66	Down 14 places-14	£450	+5.88%	290 3.83%	116
ERP	71	Up 39 places+39	£525	-	271 3.58%	88
User Experience	72	Down 17 places-17	£425	-	270 3.56%	54
Project Management	74	Down 33 places-33	£500	-	262 3.46%	95
Event-Driven	81	Up 72 places+72	£550	+4.76%	240 3.17%	41
Scrum	82	Down 26 places-26	£478	+1.91%	238 3.14%	65
Digital Transformation Programme	86	Up 36 places+36	£500	-4.76%	228 3.01%	45
SDLC	87	Up 5 places+5	£466	-6.04%	226 2.98%	47
Workshop Facilitation	88	Up 21 places+21	£500	+1.01%	225 2.97%	34
Cloud Security	90	Up 10 places+10	£525	+9.37%	222 2.93%	40
Containerisation	92	Down 49 places-49	£488	-2.50%	218 2.88%	57
Identity Access Management	93	Up 6 places+6	£520	+4.00%	212 2.80%	59
Data Engineering	93	Up 35 places+35	£463	+8.82%	212 2.80%	80
Platform Engineering	94	Up 36 places+36	£513	-2.38%	211 2.78%	57
ITSM	94	Down 28 places-28	£475	-7.09%	211 2.78%	52
Data Pipeline	97	Up 35 places+35	£480	+10.34%	207 2.73%	62
Incident Management	99	Up 19 places+19	£483	-8.39%	205 2.71%	44
Root Cause Analysis	103	Up 8 places+8	£438	-12.50%	198 2.61%	55
Workflow	103	Up 13 places+13	£450	-	198 2.61%	52
User Acceptance Testing	104	Down 8 places-8	£460	-1.91%	197 2.60%	40