Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Sheffield

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	3	Up 14 places+14	£519	+9.26%	253 24.59%	23
CI/CD	3	Up 4 places+4	£511	+7.46%	253 24.59%	13
Agile	4	Up 1 place+1	£500	+5.26%	201 19.53%	12
DevOps	6	Down 3 places-3	£500	+4.16%	192 18.66%	10
Cybersecurity	12	Down 2 places-2	£520	-	154 14.97%	33
Continuous Improvement	13	Up 36 places+36	£498	+0.50%	146 14.19%	20
Roadmaps	14	Up 39 places+39	£548	+7.35%	143 13.90%	22
Observability	17	Up 44 places+44	£511	+2.25%	134 13.02%	2
Data Protection	19	Up 7 places+7	£500	-3.14%	122 11.86%	5
Problem-Solving	22	Down 11 places-11	£485	+1.57%	114 11.08%	25
Infrastructure as Code	23	Up 1 place+1	£500	-	113 10.98%	2
AI	25	Up 39 places+39	£525	+1.69%	110 10.69%	24
Software Engineering	30	Up 7 places+7	£500	-4.76%	99 9.62%	11
Identity Access Management	32	Down 3 places-3	£558	+11.65%	95 9.23%	5
Platform Engineering	33	Up 50 places+50	£514	+2.95%	92 8.94%	3
Microservices	34	Down 4 places-4	£500	-	91 8.84%
Risk Management	35	Up 19 places+19	£489	-0.71%	90 8.75%	9
DevSecOps	35	Up 24 places+24	£550	+11.78%	90 8.75%	4
Migration	36	Down 2 places-2	£600	+33.33%	88 8.55%	5
Event-Driven	38	Up 41 places+41	£545	+3.80%	83 8.07%	2
Technical Leadership	39	Up 38 places+38	£552	-15.07%	82 7.97%	12
Secrets Management	40	Up 25 places+25	£520	-0.95%	78 7.58%	4
Analytics	40	Up 17 places+17	£501	+13.75%	78 7.58%	17
Decision-Making	42	Down 17 places-17	£520	+5.63%	75 7.29%	12
Test Automation	44	Down 9 places-9	£460	-10.24%	73 7.09%	3
Operational Resilience	47	Up 30 places+30	£500	-13.68%	69 6.71%	4
Change Management	48	Down 18 places-18	£500	+11.11%	67 6.51%	5
Stakeholder Engagement	49	Down 22 places-22	£520	+4.00%	66 6.41%	9
SDLC	50	Up 11 places+11	£477	-3.15%	65 6.32%	2
Cloud Security	51	Up 17 places+17	£522	+9.89%	64 6.22%	6
Site Reliability Engineering	53	Up 30 places+30	£500	+80.50%	58 5.64%	1
Disaster Recovery	55	Up 26 places+26	£489	-6.85%	56 5.44%	5
Vulnerability Management	55	Up 16 places+16	£575	+7.07%	56 5.44%	7
Validation	58	Up 12 places+12	£521	+9.68%	53 5.15%	3
Full-Stack Development	59	Up 10 places+10	£500	+2.56%	52 5.05%	8
Enterprise Architecture	59	Up 20 places+20	£535	-23.60%	52 5.05%	6
Project Management	60	Down 6 places-6	£473	+11.83%	50 4.86%	8
Service Management	60	Up 3 places+3	£500	+3.14%	50 4.86%	7
Runbook	60	Up 22 places+22	£500	+0.10%	50 4.86%	1
Mentoring	61	Up 1 place+1	£519	+2.36%	49 4.76%	12
LLM	62	Up 16 places+16	£514	-3.24%	48 4.66%	6
Design Patterns	63	Down 3 places-3	£550	+53.63%	47 4.57%	2
Architectural Patterns	63	Down 3 places-3	£569	+42.25%	47 4.57%	1
Event-Driven Architecture	65	Up 17 places+17	£520	-0.95%	45 4.37%	2
Data Engineering	66	Up 12 places+12	£488	+2.63%	44 4.28%	4
Workflow	66	Up 18 places+18	£488	+14.70%	44 4.28%	5
Incident Response	66	Down 15 places-15	£502	-6.51%	44 4.28%	3
High Availability	67	Down 17 places-17	£507	+1.40%	43 4.18%	3
Software Delivery	68	Up 6 places+6	£650	+62.50%	42 4.08%	1
Data Pipeline	68	Up 9 places+9	£500	+11.11%	42 4.08%	3