Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Reading

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	4	Up 12 places+12	£550	-6.85%	316 26.64%	41
Continuous Improvement	7	Up 30 places+30	£575	+26.02%	189 15.94%	45
Agile	9	Down 1 place-1	£553	+1.74%	169 14.25%	18
Roadmaps	11	Up 11 places+11	£575	+15.00%	163 13.74%	25
DevOps	15	Down 10 places-10	£613	+16.66%	142 11.97%	15
Cybersecurity	16	Up 13 places+13	£575	+7.27%	140 11.80%	31
Stakeholder Engagement	17	Down 8 places-8	£550	+1.28%	137 11.55%	17
Problem-Solving	20	Down 9 places-9	£500	-	126 10.62%	34
Digital Engineering	22	New entry-	£575	-	105 8.85%	25
CI/CD	23	Down 4 places-4	£613	+16.11%	98 8.26%	21
Migration	24	Down 12 places-12	£575	+15.00%	97 8.18%	11
ITIL	26	Up 15 places+15	£550	+29.41%	95 8.01%	19
Service Management	28	Up 28 places+28	£575	+85.78%	85 7.17%	20
Analytics	29	Up 23 places+23	£600	+4.34%	81 6.83%	11
Risk Management	30	Up 19 places+19	£575	-0.90%	78 6.58%	17
Validation	30	Down 2 places-2	£525	-4.54%	78 6.58%	12
Decision-Making	32	Up 11 places+11	£570	-5.00%	74 6.24%	27
Change Management	32	Up 14 places+14	£550	+16.09%	74 6.24%	10
Computer Science	33	Up 23 places+23	£550	+25.71%	73 6.16%	15
Technical Leadership	34	Up 35 places+35	£540	-16.26%	72 6.07%	15
Project Delivery	35	Up 5 places+5	£550	-5.98%	70 5.90%	11
ITSM	35	Up 21 places+21	£505	+61.34%	70 5.90%	14
Software Engineering	39	Up 26 places+26	£550	+46.66%	60 5.06%	16
Project Management	40	Down 14 places-14	£484	-10.91%	58 4.89%	14
Vulnerability Management	42	Up 22 places+22	£600	+11.94%	53 4.47%	3
Service Delivery	43	Up 24 places+24	£550	+15.78%	52 4.38%	11
Digital Transformation Programme	43	Up 18 places+18	£625	+22.54%	52 4.38%	2
Infrastructure as Code	44	Up 5 places+5	£625	+17.92%	51 4.30%	7
Data Protection	44	Up 2 places+2	£400	-25.58%	51 4.30%	3
AI	48	Down 3 places-3	£550	-8.33%	47 3.96%	28
Requirements Gathering	48	Up 5 places+5	£450	-14.28%	47 3.96%	5
PRINCE2	48	Up 1 place+1	£575	+9.52%	47 3.96%	3
SIEM	50	Down 5 places-5	£663	+32.50%	45 3.79%	1
Enterprise Architecture	50	Up 4 places+4	£650	+24.58%	45 3.79%	7
DevSecOps	52	Up 10 places+10	£550	-10.93%	43 3.63%	6
Data Modelling	52	Down 21 places-21	£575	-4.16%	43 3.63%	5
Workshop Facilitation	54	Up 1 place+1	£465	+6.52%	41 3.46%	3
Data Governance	54	Up 12 places+12	£588	+32.02%	41 3.46%	4
Platform Engineering	56	Up 11 places+11	£613	+14.27%	39 3.29%	9
Performance Management	56	Up 12 places+12	£450	-12.19%	39 3.29%	4
Data Engineering	56	Up 7 places+7	£600	+33.33%	39 3.29%	3
Supplier Management	57	Up 10 places+10	£500	-10.79%	38 3.20%	4
Business Intelligence	57	Down 27 places-27	£575	-4.16%	38 3.20%	8
Scrum	57	Down 20 places-20	£550	+4.76%	38 3.20%	1
PLM	57	Up 14 places+14	£623	-	38 3.20%	20
Use Case	59	Up 9 places+9	£600	+9.21%	36 3.04%	5
TOGAF	60	Down 5 places-5	£600	+19.10%	35 2.95%	7
Scaled Agile Framework	61	Up 10 places+10	£575	-8.00%	34 2.87%	4
Systems Engineering	61	Up 6 places+6	£550	-4.34%	34 2.87%	25
Identity Access Management	61	Up 7 places+7	£606	-9.00%	34 2.87%	4