Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Southampton

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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
DevOps	7	Up 8 places+8	£575	-1.07%	22 13.66%	17
Asset Management	9	Up 12 places+12	£180	-	19 11.80%	2
Infrastructure Engineering	10	Up 9 places+9	-	-	17 10.56%	13
Customer Service	10	Up 10 places+10	£250	-	17 10.56%	5
Continuous Improvement	11	Up 6 places+6	£575	+63.12%	16 9.94%	14
Agile	14	Down 10 places-10	£675	+20.00%	13 8.07%	11
Software Engineering	14	No change0	£455	+506.66%	13 8.07%	16
Infrastructure as Code	15	Up 5 places+5	£425	-	12 7.45%	11
Data Pipeline	15	Up 6 places+6	£400	-20.00%	12 7.45%	3
Problem-Solving	16	Down 6 places-6	£413	-17.50%	11 6.83%	28
DevSecOps	16	Up 5 places+5	£425	-	11 6.83%	2
Stakeholder Management	16	Down 3 places-3	£575	+4.54%	11 6.83%	13
Platform Engineering	17	New entry-	£575	-	10 6.21%	6
Prototyping	17	New entry-	£675	-	10 6.21%	1
Stakeholder Engagement	19	Down 4 places-4	£513	+2.50%	8 4.97%	2
ITSM	19	Up 1 place+1	£175	-63.65%	8 4.97%	4
Cybersecurity	19	Down 7 places-7	£513	-8.88%	8 4.97%	14
CI/CD	20	Down 7 places-7	£575	+15.00%	7 4.35%	12
E-Commerce	21	Down 2 places-2	£625	-26.47%	6 3.73%	5
Re-Platforming	21	New entry-	£625	-	6 3.73%	2
Validation	21	Down 6 places-6	£550	+10.00%	6 3.73%	9
ITIL	22	Down 9 places-9	£180	-71.20%	5 3.11%	5
Disaster Recovery	22	Down 2 places-2	£365	+17.74%	5 3.11%	3
Collaborative Working	22	Down 1 place-1	-	-	5 3.11%	1
Technical Leadership	23	Down 2 places-2	£575	-19.29%	4 2.48%	10
User Experience	23	New entry-	£250	-	4 2.48%	3
Microservices	23	Down 5 places-5	£720	+22.55%	4 2.48%	6
Data Engineering	23	New entry-	£400	-	4 2.48%	4
AI	23	Down 2 places-2	£710	-21.11%	4 2.48%	27
Service Management	23	New entry-	£638	-	4 2.48%	6
Vulnerability Management	23	Down 3 places-3	£625	-13.79%	4 2.48%	2
Actionable Insight	23	Down 4 places-4	£525	+5.00%	4 2.48%	2
Service Delivery	23	Down 4 places-4	£250	-24.92%	4 2.48%	3
Risk Management	23	Down 8 places-8	£625	+11.11%	4 2.48%	1
Visualisation	24	Down 3 places-3	£180	-64.00%	3 1.86%	2
Data Science	24	Down 3 places-3	£525	-41.66%	3 1.86%	7
Commercial Awareness	24	New entry-	-	-	3 1.86%	1
Decision-Making	24	Down 12 places-12	-	-	3 1.86%	11
CRM	24	Down 11 places-11	£525	-2.32%	3 1.86%
ERP	24	Down 6 places-6	£690	+66.26%	3 1.86%	4
Business Development	24	New entry-	-	-	3 1.86%	1
Mentoring	24	Down 6 places-6	-	-	3 1.86%	17
Software Architecture	24	Down 3 places-3	-	-	3 1.86%	1
Software Delivery	24	New entry-	£425	-	3 1.86%	3
User Research	24	New entry-	£785	-	3 1.86%
Zero Trust	24	New entry-	£575	-	3 1.86%
Containerisation	24	Down 7 places-7	£698	+46.84%	3 1.86%	7
EAM	24	New entry-	-	-	3 1.86%
Incident Response	24	Down 3 places-3	£180	-71.54%	3 1.86%	3
BCP	24	New entry-	£180	-	3 1.86%