Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Oxford

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Software Engineering	6	Up 9 places+9	£530	+6.00%	20 16.00%	125
Stakeholder Management	6	No change0	£395	-21.00%	20 16.00%	24
AI	7	Up 7 places+7	£825	+65.00%	19 15.20%	181
Machine Learning	8	New entry-	£900	-	17 13.60%	76
Validation	11	New entry-	£575	-	13 10.40%	51
Requirements Gathering	11	New entry-	£240	-	13 10.40%	5
Runbook	12	Up 1 place+1	£525	-12.50%	12 9.60%	5
Roadmaps	13	Up 2 places+2	£675	+35.00%	11 8.80%	43
Product Management	13	Up 2 places+2	£340	-	11 8.80%	8
Workshop Facilitation	13	Up 1 place+1	-	-	11 8.80%	10
Business Case	13	New entry-	£320	-	11 8.80%	5
Commercialisation	14	New entry-	-	-	10 8.00%	7
Customer Experience	14	Up 1 place+1	-	-	10 8.00%	5
Use Case	14	New entry-	-	-	10 8.00%	15
Decision-Making	14	Down 4 places-4	£413	+83.33%	10 8.00%	37
Problem-Solving	14	Down 13 places-13	£338	+12.50%	10 8.00%	95
Cost Reduction	14	New entry-	-	-	10 8.00%	3
RBAC	14	No change0	£575	-4.16%	10 8.00%	2
ITSM	15	Down 2 places-2	£350	-	9 7.20%	3
Vulnerability Remediation	16	New entry-	£250	-	8 6.40%	1
Agile	16	Down 8 places-8	£275	-46.34%	8 6.40%	52
Attestation	16	New entry-	£550	-	8 6.40%
Mentoring	17	Down 2 places-2	£400	-	7 5.60%	54
Information Security	17	New entry-	£525	-	7 5.60%	9
Project Delivery	17	Down 8 places-8	£275	+22.22%	7 5.60%	15
LLM	18	New entry-	£900	-	6 4.80%	18
ITIL	18	Down 6 places-6	£243	-	6 4.80%	5
Continuous Improvement	18	Down 6 places-6	£395	-	6 4.80%	56
Vulnerability Management	18	Down 3 places-3	£350	-21.34%	6 4.80%	5
CI/CD	18	Down 5 places-5	£900	+118.18%	6 4.80%	37
Cybersecurity	19	Down 5 places-5	£675	+40.62%	5 4.00%	48
Network Design	19	New entry-	£500	-	5 4.00%
Project Management	19	Down 11 places-11	£450	+100.00%	5 4.00%	28
Service Delivery	19	Down 6 places-6	£400	-	5 4.00%	7
Risk Management	19	Down 7 places-7	£248	-48.30%	5 4.00%	12
High Availability	19	Down 4 places-4	£530	+76.66%	5 4.00%	7
Analytics	20	Down 8 places-8	£425	-	4 3.20%	43
Secure Coding	20	New entry-	£530	-	4 3.20%	1
Biotechnology	20	New entry-	£800	-	4 3.20%	6
Computer Science	20	Down 8 places-8	£600	-	4 3.20%	48
Service Management	20	Down 7 places-7	£258	-	4 3.20%	5
Stakeholder Engagement	20	Down 9 places-9	£725	+33.02%	4 3.20%	10
MLOps	20	New entry-	£850	-	4 3.20%	11
Full-Stack Development	20	Down 5 places-5	£530	+92.72%	4 3.20%	20
Customer Service	21	Down 12 places-12	£233	+3.33%	3 2.40%	18
Segregation of Duties	21	New entry-	£600	-	3 2.40%
Line Management	21	Down 8 places-8	£245	-72.77%	3 2.40%	28
Server Patching	21	New entry-	£500	-	3 2.40%
Business Analysis	21	New entry-	£240	-	3 2.40%	3
Translating Business Requirements	21	New entry-	£675	-	3 2.40%	4