Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	60	Up 23 places+23	£493	-1.50%	1,001 3.52%	1,173
Cloud Native	70	Up 38 places+38	£525	+5.00%	934 3.29%	919
Product Ownership	84	Up 17 places+17	£500	+7.29%	809 2.85%	937
Management Information System	102	Up 4 places+4	£460	-6.50%	697 2.45%	1,176
Data Centre	112	Down 12 places-12	£500	+5.26%	639 2.25%	570
Data Protection Act	153	Down 20 places-20	£425	-5.55%	455 1.60%	34
Enterprise Software	154	Up 94 places+94	£500	+13.37%	448 1.58%	597
Operational Technology	196	Up 77 places+77	£550	-	339 1.19%	422
Legacy Systems	203	Down 45 places-45	£525	-	329 1.16%	197
Driving Licence	207	Down 31 places-31	£180	-10.00%	322 1.13%	1,114
Distributed Systems	208	Up 47 places+47	£510	+7.14%	318 1.12%	427
Self-Motivation	219	Down 35 places-35	£500	+11.79%	296 1.04%	874
AI Agents	225	Up 141 places+141	£525	-6.25%	284 1.00%	674
Data Structures	237	No change0	£475	-13.63%	268 0.94%	221
Virtual Team	244	Up 6 places+6	£500	+5.26%	257 0.90%	247
PKI	245	Up 8 places+8	£550	+0.91%	256 0.90%	104
NHS	246	Up 4 places+4	£394	-1.56%	255 0.90%	323
CMDB	250	Up 26 places+26	£500	-1.11%	249 0.88%	87
Hybrid Cloud	255	Down 4 places-4	£600	+9.09%	238 0.84%	248
Security Posture	272	Down 23 places-23	£533	+1.42%	219 0.77%	349
Mobile App	296	Down 65 places-65	£425	-4.49%	192 0.68%	237
Public Cloud	309	Down 53 places-53	£590	+12.38%	177 0.62%	168
SCADA	316	Down 40 places-40	£556	+11.25%	169 0.59%	505
Cyber Threat	318	Down 18 places-18	£588	-2.08%	167 0.59%	242
Replication	334	Down 56 places-56	£500	+5.26%	147 0.52%	79
Social Media	340	Up 6 places+6	£373	+30.33%	141 0.50%	265
Greenfield Project	343	Down 19 places-19	£525	+7.69%	138 0.49%	102
Life Science	346	Down 6 places-6	£581	+1.04%	135 0.48%	277
Web Conferencing	346	Up 21 places+21	£376	+75.05%	135 0.48%	148
Analytical Mindset	352	Down 108 places-108	£459	+2.00%	129 0.45%	139
Mainframe	368	Down 42 places-42	£525	+46.23%	113 0.40%	41
Podcast	370	Up 17 places+17	-	-	111 0.39%	10
EPoS	373	Down 68 places-68	£155	-4.69%	108 0.38%	61
Private Cloud	374	Down 58 places-58	£581	+3.75%	107 0.38%	120
Clustering	380	Down 21 places-21	£550	+38.97%	101 0.36%	41
Robotics	385	Down 20 places-20	£650	+48.57%	96 0.34%	712
Algorithms	387	Down 139 places-139	£369	-27.26%	94 0.33%	521
Security Operations Centre	388	Down 73 places-73	£540	-3.57%	93 0.33%	116
Enterprise Cloud	393	Down 15 places-15	£530	+51.42%	88 0.31%	75
Linux Command Line	401	Down 65 places-65	£470	+9.62%	80 0.28%	104
Embedded Systems	405	Down 36 places-36	£476	+7.15%	76 0.27%	481
Low-Code	409	Down 55 places-55	£514	+20.94%	72 0.25%	116
Enterprise Storage	415	Down 42 places-42	£500	+33.33%	66 0.23%	33
Smartphone	418	Down 89 places-89	£225	-10.00%	63 0.22%	64
FMCG	418	Down 67 places-67	£475	-9.95%	63 0.22%	155
CCTV	420	Down 49 places-49	£540	+0.46%	61 0.21%	271
Video Conferencing	420	Down 65 places-65	£338	+25.93%	61 0.21%	69
Renewable Energy	422	Down 80 places-80	£550	-8.33%	59 0.21%	218
Taxonomies	425	Down 54 places-54	£484	+6.37%	56 0.20%	31
IoT	426	Down 106 places-106	£550	-2.22%	55 0.19%	396