Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Northern Ireland

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Podcast	13	New entry-	-	-	21 9.59%
Web Conferencing	13	New entry-	-	-	21 9.59%	9
Virtual Team	14	Up 18 places+18	-	-	20 9.13%	23
Cloud Native	18	New entry-	£345	-	16 7.31%	64
Data Protection Act	23	Up 13 places+13	£104	-	11 5.02%
Fixed Income	26	Up 7 places+7	£390	-23.90%	8 3.65%	11
Driving Licence	26	Up 7 places+7	£153	-	8 3.65%	14
Onboarding	28	Up 4 places+4	£531	+112.50%	6 2.74%	71
Management Information System	30	No change0	£550	-12.00%	4 1.83%	69
Foreign Exchange (FX)	31	Up 3 places+3	£438	-21.34%	3 1.37%	16
Derivative	31	Up 2 places+2	£510	-2.85%	3 1.37%	17
Clustering	31	New entry-	-	-	3 1.37%	2
Enterprise Software	32	Up 2 places+2	-	-	2 0.91%	30
Equities	32	No change0	£475	-9.52%	2 0.91%	14
Legacy Systems	32	Up 4 places+4	-	-	2 0.91%	9
AI Agents	32	New entry-	£650	-	2 0.91%	41
NHS	33	New entry-	-	-	1 0.46%	16
Handset	33	New entry-	£104	-	1 0.46%
Data Structures	33	Up 1 place+1	-	-	1 0.46%	12
Low-Code	33	New entry-	£800	-	1 0.46%	13
Hybrid Cloud	33	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.46%	3
Public Cloud	33	New entry-	-	-	1 0.46%	23
Enterprise Cloud	33	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.46%
Distributed Systems	33	Up 4 places+4	-	-	1 0.46%	43
Data Centre	33	New entry-	-	-	1 0.46%	18
Product Ownership	33	New entry-	£650	-	1 0.46%	45
Security Posture	33	No change0	-	-	1 0.46%	16
Market Risk	33	Down -3 places-3	£650	+10.63%	1 0.46%
Video Conferencing	33	Up 2 places+2	-	-	1 0.46%
Reference Data	33	Up 1 place+1	£550	-4.55%	1 0.46%	8