Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Oxfordshire

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	11	Up 12 places+12	£394	-	39 11.75%	18
Operational Technology	20	New entry-	£425	-	27 8.13%	3
Management Information System	30	Down -12 places-12	£750	+11.11%	17 5.12%	7
Cyber Threat	37	New entry-	£575	-	10 3.01%	4
Distributed Systems	40	New entry-	£800	-	7 2.11%	9
AI Agents	40	New entry-	£900	-	7 2.11%	2
Cyber Defence	41	New entry-	£440	-	6 1.81%
Driving Licence	41	Down -22 places-22	£250	-	6 1.81%	12
Security Posture	41	New entry-	£500	-	6 1.81%	4
Cloud Security Posture	42	New entry-	£500	-	5 1.51%
SCADA	42	New entry-	-	-	5 1.51%	1
Cloud Native	43	New entry-	£665	-	4 1.20%	2
ARM Cortex	44	New entry-	-	-	3 0.90%	1
Enterprise Software	44	New entry-	£800	-	3 0.90%	5
Greenfield Project	44	Down -21 places-21	£425	-50.00%	3 0.90%	1
Life Science	44	Down -31 places-31	£550	-	3 0.90%	2
Virtual Team	45	New entry-	£638	-	2 0.60%	6
Data Centre	45	New entry-	£500	-	2 0.60%	2
Legacy Systems	45	Down -23 places-23	£500	+40.84%	2 0.60%	1
Distributed Computing	45	New entry-	£900	-	2 0.60%	1
CMDB	45	New entry-	£250	-	2 0.60%
Data Structures	45	New entry-	£325	-	2 0.60%	5
Algorithms	45	Down -22 places-22	£550	+33.33%	2 0.60%	10
Hybrid Cloud	46	New entry-	£415	-	1 0.30%	1
CESG	46	New entry-	-	-	1 0.30%
Smartphone	46	Down -23 places-23	£250	-	1 0.30%
Distributed Architecture	46	New entry-	£825	-	1 0.30%
Analytical Mindset	46	Down -24 places-24	£550	+120.00%	1 0.30%	2
Device Driver	46	New entry-	£575	-	1 0.30%	1
Video\Live Streaming	46	New entry-	£575	-	1 0.30%
Self-Motivation	46	Down -28 places-28	£46	-76.25%	1 0.30%	24
Data Protection Act	46	Down -24 places-24	£320	-41.81%	1 0.30%