Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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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
Onboarding	62	Up 21 places+21	£490	-2.00%	1,028 3.63%	656
Cloud Native	72	Up 38 places+38	£525	+5.00%	924 3.26%	376
Product Ownership	88	Up 7 places+7	£500	+5.26%	800 2.83%	394
Management Information System	97	Up 9 places+9	£452	-6.61%	741 2.62%	787
Data Centre	116	Down 15 places-15	£514	+8.21%	615 2.17%	272
Enterprise Software	151	Up 88 places+88	£500	+11.85%	478 1.69%	257
Data Protection Act	160	Down 22 places-22	£425	-5.55%	449 1.59%	21
Driving Licence	213	Down 47 places-47	£180	-10.00%	329 1.16%	830
Operational Technology	215	Up 48 places+48	£550	-	326 1.15%	268
Legacy Systems	218	Down 59 places-59	£525	-	323 1.14%	105
Distributed Systems	220	Up 27 places+27	£501	+3.51%	319 1.13%	166
Self-Motivation	229	Down 48 places-48	£497	+14.13%	302 1.07%	425
AI Agents	231	Up 128 places+128	£513	-10.86%	292 1.03%	314
NHS	238	Down 10 places-10	£400	-2.43%	277 0.98%	207
Data Structures	250	Down 18 places-18	£475	-13.09%	263 0.93%	121
Virtual Team	252	Down 15 places-15	£500	+5.26%	261 0.92%	64
CMDB	254	Up 14 places+14	£500	-	258 0.91%	42
PKI	257	Down 10 places-10	£550	-	253 0.89%	61
Hybrid Cloud	271	Down 29 places-29	£595	+8.18%	234 0.83%	82
Security Posture	289	Down 52 places-52	£525	+2.43%	210 0.74%	252
Public Cloud	310	Down 59 places-59	£600	+14.28%	185 0.65%	62
Mobile App	314	Down 93 places-93	£425	-	181 0.64%	200
Cyber Threat	324	Down 32 places-32	£575	-4.16%	169 0.60%	208
SCADA	328	Down 57 places-57	£563	+12.50%	165 0.58%	236
Replication	345	Down 78 places-78	£500	+5.26%	147 0.52%	40
Social Media	346	Down 9 places-9	£373	+30.33%	146 0.52%	154
Life Science	347	Down 12 places-12	£581	+0.60%	145 0.51%	113
Greenfield Project	356	Down 43 places-43	£523	+4.50%	136 0.48%	98
Web Conferencing	359	Down 1 place-1	£376	+90.12%	133 0.47%	56
Analytical Mindset	371	Down 137 places-137	£463	+2.77%	118 0.42%	80
Private Cloud	374	Down 67 places-67	£591	+5.44%	115 0.41%	43
Podcast	378	Up 3 places+3	-	-	111 0.39%	13
EPoS	378	Down 85 places-85	£155	-4.69%	111 0.39%	56
Mainframe	380	Down 53 places-53	£525	+47.88%	109 0.38%	25
Algorithms	389	Down 148 places-148	£344	-32.16%	99 0.35%	234
Clustering	393	Down 46 places-46	£575	+45.29%	95 0.34%	16
Enterprise Cloud	395	Down 28 places-28	£535	+46.57%	93 0.33%	27
Security Operations Centre	395	Down 92 places-92	£540	-3.57%	93 0.33%	102
Robotics	396	Down 39 places-39	£650	+23.80%	92 0.32%	335
Linux Command Line	410	Down 85 places-85	£483	+18.76%	78 0.28%	68
Embedded Systems	413	Down 51 places-51	£488	+9.91%	75 0.26%	212
Low-Code	415	Down 71 places-71	£514	+24.60%	73 0.26%	145
Enterprise Storage	421	Down 54 places-54	£519	+38.40%	67 0.24%	22
Smartphone	426	Down 100 places-100	£225	-10.00%	62 0.22%	24
FMCG	426	Down 84 places-84	£500	-5.21%	62 0.22%	96
Video Conferencing	427	Down 79 places-79	£338	+28.57%	61 0.22%	73
Renewable Energy	429	Down 93 places-93	£550	-8.33%	59 0.21%	81
CCTV	430	Down 67 places-67	£540	+5.36%	58 0.20%	222
IoT	433	Down 120 places-120	£525	-4.54%	55 0.19%	153
Taxonomies	433	Down 73 places-73	£486	+2.26%	55 0.19%	16