Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Sheffield

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	29	Up 3 places+3	£540	+10.65%	100 9.72%	6
Data Protection Act	29	Up 13 places+13	£500	-6.97%	100 9.72%
Product Ownership	45	Up 10 places+10	£517	+0.10%	72 7.00%	4
Onboarding	64	Down 19 places-19	£501	+5.59%	46 4.47%	5
Mainframe	69	Down 14 places-14	£513	+43.96%	41 3.98%	4
Distributed Systems	73	Down 23 places-23	£500	-	37 3.60%
Data Centre	79	Down 23 places-23	£517	+29.12%	31 3.01%	2
PKI	81	New entry-	£570	-	29 2.82%	3
AI Agents	81	Up 3 places+3	£550	-	29 2.82%	5
Enterprise Software	86	Down 10 places-10	£460	+64.28%	24 2.33%	6
Private Cloud	86	New entry-	£550	-	24 2.33%	1
Self-Motivation	87	Down 17 places-17	£610	+31.18%	23 2.24%	7
Virtual Team	88	Down 8 places-8	£600	+26.31%	22 2.14%	1
Replication	91	Down 9 places-9	£427	-	19 1.85%
Hybrid Cloud	94	Down 15 places-15	£550	+4.76%	16 1.55%	1
Public Cloud	94	Down 49 places-49	£550	+15.54%	16 1.55%
Security Posture	95	Down 17 places-17	£525	-17.64%	15 1.46%	5
Linux Command Line	99	New entry-	£550	-	11 1.07%	1
Management Information System	101	Down 43 places-43	£506	+0.14%	9 0.87%	2
Cyber Defence	103	New entry-	£525	-	7 0.68%
Mobile App	103	Down 30 places-30	£575	+60.61%	7 0.68%	5
Greenfield Project	104	Down 23 places-23	£606	+24.23%	6 0.58%
Analytical Mindset	104	Down 24 places-24	£575	+27.77%	6 0.58%
CMDB	104	Down 22 places-22	£555	-	6 0.58%	1
Blog	104	New entry-	£400	-	6 0.58%
Data Structures	104	Down 23 places-23	£475	+32.68%	6 0.58%
Enterprise Cloud	104	Down 24 places-24	£663	+89.28%	6 0.58%
Data Fabric	105	New entry-	£456	-	5 0.49%
Autonomous Agent	105	New entry-	£588	-	5 0.49%	1
Cloud Security Posture	106	New entry-	£467	-	4 0.39%
Driving Licence	106	Down 23 places-23	£144	-11.70%	4 0.39%	10
Clustering	106	Down 26 places-26	£596	+17.33%	4 0.39%
Low-Code	107	Down 23 places-23	£519	+3.80%	3 0.29%	1
Distributed Computing	107	Down 24 places-24	£413	-2.82%	3 0.29%
Operational Technology	107	New entry-	£500	-	3 0.29%	5
Credit Risk	107	Down 26 places-26	£830	+22.96%	3 0.29%
Enterprise Storage	107	Down 23 places-23	£525	-	3 0.29%
SWIFT Messaging Network	107	Down 23 places-23	£335	-30.56%	3 0.29%
Cyber Kill Chain	108	New entry-	£500	-	2 0.19%
Digital Wallet	108	New entry-	£625	-	2 0.19%
Distributed Applications	108	Down 28 places-28	£548	+96.94%	2 0.19%
Social Media	108	New entry-	£501	-	2 0.19%
EMC VNX	108	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.19%
EMC VMAX	108	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.19%
Cyber Threat	108	New entry-	£600	-	2 0.19%	4
EPoS	108	Down 24 places-24	£144	-11.70%	2 0.19%
Equities	108	Down 25 places-25	£537	-2.36%	2 0.19%
VSAM	109	Down 32 places-32	-	-	1 0.097%
Fibre Optics	109	New entry-	£350	-	1 0.097%
Legacy Systems	109	Down 32 places-32	-	-	1 0.097%