Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Scotland

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	31	Up 33 places+33	£450	-5.26%	143 6.03%	22
Product Ownership	55	Up 9 places+9	£457	+7.52%	91 3.83%	20
Data Protection Act	63	Down 13 places-13	£394	-7.35%	81 3.41%
Onboarding	79	Down 2 places-2	£440	-12.00%	61 2.57%	32
Enterprise Software	81	Up 17 places+17	£525	+75.00%	59 2.49%	10
Management Information System	89	Down 32 places-32	£413	+3.12%	51 2.15%	32
Distributed Systems	91	Down 7 places-7	£479	+14.04%	49 2.06%	8
Operational Technology	92	Up 12 places+12	£600	+11.11%	48 2.02%	15
Data Centre	95	Down 12 places-12	£425	-2.85%	45 1.90%	10
Driving Licence	97	Down 9 places-9	£210	-8.69%	43 1.81%	69
PKI	98	Up 8 places+8	£486	-9.67%	42 1.77%	3
Data Structures	101	Down 26 places-26	£467	-11.04%	39 1.64%	5
Mobile App	106	Up 1 place+1	£375	-21.05%	34 1.43%	6
Private Cloud	114	Down 9 places-9	£438	+22.20%	26 1.10%	2
AI Agents	114	Down 8 places-8	£513	-20.84%	26 1.10%	17
Legacy Systems	115	Down 46 places-46	£450	-5.26%	25 1.05%	4
Social Media	116	Down 6 places-6	£280	+33.37%	24 1.01%	13
SCADA	118	Down 13 places-13	£675	+35.00%	22 0.93%	19
Linux Command Line	118	Down 24 places-24	£470	+3.52%	22 0.93%	3
Virtual Team	121	Down 45 places-45	£575	+15.00%	19 0.80%	4
CCTV	122	New entry-	£625	-	18 0.76%	7
Replication	124	Down 13 places-13	£425	+21.42%	16 0.67%	2
Mainframe	125	Down 13 places-13	£600	+60.00%	15 0.63%	1
Taxonomies	125	Down 12 places-12	£484	-	15 0.63%	1
Public Cloud	125	Down 45 places-45	£475	-5.00%	15 0.63%
Enterprise Storage	125	New entry-	£425	-	15 0.63%	4
Cyber Threat	125	Down 24 places-24	£525	-4.54%	15 0.63%	23
Smartphone	126	Down 18 places-18	£175	-	14 0.59%
Enterprise Cloud	126	New entry-	£425	-	14 0.59%	5
Web Conferencing	126	Down 19 places-19	£425	-8.70%	14 0.59%	4
Hybrid Cloud	127	Down 22 places-22	£650	+44.44%	13 0.55%	6
CMDB	127	Down 37 places-37	£550	+16.89%	13 0.55%	3
Blackberry	128	Down 15 places-15	£150	+15.38%	12 0.51%
Equities	128	Down 37 places-37	£417	-24.18%	12 0.51%	1
Self-Motivation	128	Down 40 places-40	£492	+20.00%	12 0.51%	35
Derivative	129	Down 21 places-21	£348	-30.50%	11 0.46%	1
Security Operations Centre	129	Down 24 places-24	£485	+6.82%	11 0.46%	5
Renewable Energy	129	Down 20 places-20	£525	+61.53%	11 0.46%	10
NHS	129	Down 23 places-23	£500	+51.51%	11 0.46%	5
Podcast	130	New entry-	-	-	10 0.42%	1
Security Posture	130	Down 23 places-23	£501	+17.33%	10 0.42%	8
Clustering	131	Down 18 places-18	£600	-	9 0.38%
Legacy Code	131	Down 20 places-20	£470	-	9 0.38%	1
Foreign Exchange (FX)	131	Down 21 places-21	£648	+146.66%	9 0.38%	2
Fixed Income	132	Down 23 places-23	£646	-	8 0.34%	1
Algorithms	132	Down 39 places-39	£322	-24.45%	8 0.34%	16
IVR	133	Down 22 places-22	£543	+44.66%	7 0.30%	1
Credit Risk	133	Down 24 places-24	£402	-6.51%	7 0.30%
Reference Data	133	New entry-	£425	-	7 0.30%	2
EPoS	133	Down 33 places-33	£155	-11.23%	7 0.30%	2