Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Reading

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	42	Up 12 places+12	£550	-	66 5.55%	20
Product Ownership	43	Up 13 places+13	£525	+12.90%	62 5.21%	8
Management Information System	44	Up 8 places+8	£575	-	61 5.13%	22
Operational Technology	63	Down 2 places-2	£613	+14.27%	36 3.03%	15
Hybrid Cloud	67	Down 12 places-12	£588	-9.61%	32 2.69%	1
Data Protection Act	68	Down 4 places-4	£388	-8.82%	31 2.61%
Cloud Native	73	Down 25 places-25	£513	+2.50%	26 2.18%	6
Enterprise Software	76	Down 10 places-10	£650	+6.12%	23 1.93%	9
Cyber Threat	78	Down 19 places-19	£600	+27.65%	21 1.76%	5
Self-Motivation	79	Down 15 places-15	£450	+4.04%	20 1.68%	22
Data Centre	82	Down 27 places-27	£375	+10.29%	17 1.43%	4
CMDB	83	Down 17 places-17	£461	-12.28%	16 1.34%	5
Virtual Team	89	Down 27 places-27	£575	+8.49%	10 0.84%	3
Security Posture	91	Down 36 places-36	£553	+7.80%	8 0.67%	3
Animation	91	Down 21 places-21	£400	+66.66%	8 0.67%	1
Legacy Systems	91	Down 22 places-22	£525	-	8 0.67%
AI Agents	92	Down 23 places-23	£525	-	7 0.59%	8
Enterprise Cloud	92	New entry-	£605	-	7 0.59%	1
Greenfield Project	92	Down 22 places-22	£505	+5.98%	7 0.59%	4
Interactive Media	93	New entry-	-	-	6 0.50%	1
Data Structures	93	Down 43 places-43	£495	-23.84%	6 0.50%	2
SCADA	94	Down 27 places-27	£574	+7.04%	5 0.42%	5
Motion Graphics	95	New entry-	£400	-	4 0.34%
Graphic Design	95	Down 25 places-25	-	-	4 0.34%
IVR	95	New entry-	£538	-	4 0.34%	1
Distributed Architecture	96	New entry-	£375	-	3 0.25%
PMI	96	Down 27 places-27	£575	+23.65%	3 0.25%
EPoS	96	Down 27 places-27	£550	-8.33%	3 0.25%
IoT	96	Down 29 places-29	£750	-	3 0.25%	3
Cyber Defence	96	Down 27 places-27	£603	+14.76%	3 0.25%
Driving Licence	96	Down 31 places-31	-	-	3 0.25%	21
Analytical Mindset	96	Down 26 places-26	£350	-12.50%	3 0.25%	2
Distributed Computing	97	Down 27 places-27	-	-	2 0.17%
Distributed Systems	97	Down 27 places-27	£491	-1.75%	2 0.17%	2
Distributed Applications	97	New entry-	-	-	2 0.17%
Autonomous Agent	97	New entry-	£550	-	2 0.17%
Device Driver	97	New entry-	£195	-	2 0.17%	1
Clustering	97	Down 28 places-28	£550	+42.85%	2 0.17%	2
Private Cloud	97	Down 29 places-29	£325	-44.91%	2 0.17%
Public Cloud	97	Down 28 places-28	£325	-56.66%	2 0.17%	1
Smart Meter	97	New entry-	£500	-	2 0.17%
Legacy Applications	97	New entry-	£413	-	2 0.17%
Insider Threat	98	Down 29 places-29	£550	+15.78%	1 0.084%
Low-Code	98	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%	1
YARA	98	New entry-	£450	-	1 0.084%
PKI	98	Down 29 places-29	£600	+14.28%	1 0.084%	1
Smartphone	98	New entry-	-	-	1 0.084%
Digital Media	98	Down 28 places-28	£190	-	1 0.084%
Security Operations Centre	98	Down 37 places-37	£600	+39.53%	1 0.084%	3
Foreign Exchange (FX)	98	New entry-	£613	-	1 0.084%	1