Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Southampton

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	16	Up 3 places+3	£200	-39.93%	10 7.25%	7
Data Centre	18	Up 1 place+1	£127	-76.90%	8 5.80%	3
Product Ownership	18	New entry-	£720	-	8 5.80%	3
Analytical Mindset	19	No change0	£127	-60.92%	7 5.07%
Replication	21	New entry-	£630	-	5 3.62%	4
Onboarding	21	New entry-	£180	-	5 3.62%	8
Robotics	22	New entry-	-	-	4 2.90%	2
Management Information System	23	Down -6 places-6	£563	-	3 2.17%	14
iPhone	23	New entry-	£180	-	3 2.17%
Digital Signage	23	New entry-	£180	-	3 2.17%
Blackberry	23	New entry-	£180	-	3 2.17%
Cloud Native	24	New entry-	£483	-	2 1.45%	5
Smartphone	24	New entry-	£250	-	2 1.45%	2
Hybrid Cloud	24	Down -6 places-6	£575	+15.00%	2 1.45%	1
BYOD	24	New entry-	£563	-	2 1.45%
Distributed Systems	24	New entry-	-	-	2 1.45%	3
Genomics	24	New entry-	-	-	2 1.45%
Security Posture	24	Down -5 places-5	£483	-3.40%	2 1.45%	5
FMCG	25	Down -7 places-7	£500	+41.84%	1 0.72%	2
Cyber Defence	25	Down -7 places-7	£675	-	1 0.72%	1
CAN bus	25	New entry-	-	-	1 0.72%	1
Self-Motivation	25	Down -6 places-6	-	-	1 0.72%	12
CCTV	25	New entry-	£450	-	1 0.72%	1
Housing Association	25	New entry-	-	-	1 0.72%
Algorithms	25	Down -7 places-7	-	-	1 0.72%	18
Legacy Systems	25	Down -9 places-9	£690	+38.00%	1 0.72%
Life Science	25	New entry-	-	-	1 0.72%	2
ASIC	25	New entry-	-	-	1 0.72%	15
LIMS	25	New entry-	-	-	1 0.72%	2
Cyber Threat	25	New entry-	£675	-	1 0.72%	1