Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in Southampton

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
DevOps	8	Up 8 places+8	£575	+27.77%	23 13.69%	35
Asset Management	10	Up 11 places+11	£180	-	19 11.31%	3
Infrastructure Engineering	10	Up 9 places+9	-	-	19 11.31%	19
Customer Service	12	Up 8 places+8	£250	-	17 10.12%	11
Continuous Improvement	13	Up 4 places+4	£575	+63.12%	16 9.52%	39
Agile	15	Down 11 places-11	£638	+16.70%	14 8.33%	27
Software Engineering	16	Down 3 places-3	£455	+58.26%	13 7.74%	56
Stakeholder Management	16	Down 2 places-2	£560	+4.18%	13 7.74%	20
Infrastructure as Code	16	Up 3 places+3	£425	-19.81%	13 7.74%	19
Data Pipeline	17	Up 4 places+4	£400	-20.00%	12 7.14%	4
DevSecOps	17	Up 4 places+4	£425	-	12 7.14%	4
Problem-Solving	18	Down 9 places-9	£413	-5.71%	11 6.55%	69
Platform Engineering	19	New entry-	£575	-	10 5.95%	7
Prototyping	19	New entry-	£675	-	10 5.95%	6
Cybersecurity	20	Down 8 places-8	£513	-8.88%	9 5.36%	31
ITSM	21	No change0	£175	-63.15%	8 4.76%	10
E-Commerce	21	Down 3 places-3	£625	-26.47%	8 4.76%	5
CI/CD	22	Down 10 places-10	£575	+15.00%	7 4.17%	38
Validation	22	Down 7 places-7	£550	+10.00%	7 4.17%	21
Stakeholder Engagement	23	Down 8 places-8	£513	+2.50%	6 3.57%	5
Re-Platforming	23	New entry-	£625	-	6 3.57%	2
Disaster Recovery	23	Down 3 places-3	£365	+17.74%	6 3.57%	8
Vulnerability Management	24	Down 3 places-3	£625	-19.35%	5 2.98%	4
Actionable Insight	24	Down 5 places-5	£525	+5.00%	5 2.98%	6
Collaborative Working	24	Down 3 places-3	-	-	5 2.98%	5
ITIL	24	Down 11 places-11	£180	-71.20%	5 2.98%	11
Software Delivery	25	New entry-	£425	-	4 2.38%	2
Data Engineering	25	New entry-	£400	-	4 2.38%	7
AI	25	Down 4 places-4	£710	-21.11%	4 2.38%	54
Service Management	25	New entry-	£638	-	4 2.38%	10
Service Delivery	25	Down 6 places-6	£250	-24.92%	4 2.38%	5
Risk Management	25	Down 9 places-9	£625	+11.11%	4 2.38%	12
Analytics	25	Down 8 places-8	£525	-0.94%	4 2.38%	18
Business Continuity	25	New entry-	£180	-	4 2.38%	6
Decision-Making	25	Down 13 places-13	-	-	4 2.38%	27
Technical Leadership	25	New entry-	£575	-	4 2.38%	23
Mentoring	25	Down 7 places-7	-	-	4 2.38%	42
User Experience	25	New entry-	£250	-	4 2.38%	6
Microservices	25	Down 6 places-6	£720	+44.00%	4 2.38%	9
User Research	26	New entry-	£785	-	3 1.79%
Zero Trust	26	New entry-	£575	-	3 1.79%	2
EAM	26	New entry-	-	-	3 1.79%
Containerisation	26	Down 10 places-10	£698	+39.50%	3 1.79%	11
Incident Response	26	Down 5 places-5	£180	-71.54%	3 1.79%	10
BCP	26	New entry-	£180	-	3 1.79%	1
Roadmaps	26	Down 5 places-5	£648	-	3 1.79%	22
Vulnerability Remediation	26	New entry-	£513	-	3 1.79%
Virtual Environments	26	Down 5 places-5	£180	-67.27%	3 1.79%	8
Time Management	26	Down 5 places-5	£180	-52.00%	3 1.79%	5
Data Protection	26	Down 5 places-5	-	-	3 1.79%	7