Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	63	Up 19 places+19	£492	-1.60%	1,015 3.63%	381
Cloud Native	74	Up 33 places+33	£525	+5.00%	919 3.28%	249
Product Ownership	90	Up 5 places+5	£500	+5.26%	791 2.83%	255
Management Information System	100	Up 5 places+5	£453	-4.63%	729 2.60%	600
Data Centre	117	Down 19 places-19	£500	+5.26%	616 2.20%	165
Enterprise Software	148	Up 95 places+95	£500	+12.61%	473 1.69%	175
Data Protection Act	158	Down 25 places-25	£425	-4.49%	446 1.59%	19
Operational Technology	209	Up 62 places+62	£550	-	328 1.17%	236
Driving Licence	212	Down 45 places-45	£180	-10.00%	325 1.16%	713
Distributed Systems	217	Up 36 places+36	£510	+3.65%	318 1.14%	94
Legacy Systems	218	Down 61 places-61	£525	-	317 1.13%	71
Self-Motivation	228	Down 48 places-48	£500	+14.94%	298 1.06%	325
AI Agents	233	Up 134 places+134	£513	-8.48%	284 1.01%	168
NHS	243	Down 10 places-10	£400	-2.43%	265 0.95%	182
Data Structures	244	Down 9 places-9	£475	-13.63%	263 0.94%	62
Virtual Team	245	Up 2 places+2	£500	+5.26%	261 0.93%	39
CMDB	248	Up 25 places+25	£500	-	256 0.91%	42
PKI	252	Up 1 place+1	£550	-	248 0.89%	40
Hybrid Cloud	260	Down 15 places-15	£595	+8.18%	234 0.84%	43
Security Posture	276	Down 34 places-34	£525	+1.94%	211 0.75%	184
Public Cloud	296	Down 39 places-39	£600	+14.28%	186 0.66%	41
Mobile App	299	Down 76 places-76	£425	-3.40%	181 0.65%	81
Cyber Threat	310	Down 9 places-9	£581	-3.12%	168 0.60%	156
SCADA	312	Down 32 places-32	£550	+10.00%	166 0.59%	206
Replication	330	Down 57 places-57	£500	+5.26%	147 0.53%	18
Social Media	331	Up 14 places+14	£373	+30.33%	146 0.52%	121
Life Science	332	Up 10 places+10	£581	+0.60%	144 0.51%	48
Greenfield Project	338	Down 17 places-17	£521	+4.77%	138 0.49%	60
Web Conferencing	342	Up 24 places+24	£376	+90.12%	134 0.48%	39
Analytical Mindset	358	Down 122 places-122	£463	+2.77%	118 0.42%	64
Private Cloud	361	Down 47 places-47	£600	+7.14%	115 0.41%	33
Mainframe	363	Down 29 places-29	£525	+47.88%	113 0.40%	16
EPoS	364	Down 67 places-67	£155	-4.69%	112 0.40%	37
Podcast	365	Up 23 places+23	-	-	111 0.40%	4
Clustering	380	Down 26 places-26	£567	+43.33%	96 0.34%	13
Algorithms	381	Down 137 places-137	£358	-29.55%	95 0.34%	148
Robotics	382	Down 18 places-18	£650	+23.80%	94 0.34%	280
Security Operations Centre	384	Down 74 places-74	£540	-3.57%	92 0.33%	63
Enterprise Cloud	387	Down 9 places-9	£535	+52.85%	89 0.32%	11
Linux Command Line	398	Down 65 places-65	£483	+16.96%	78 0.28%	49
Embedded Systems	402	Down 33 places-33	£488	+9.91%	74 0.26%	181
Low-Code	404	Down 53 places-53	£515	+24.72%	72 0.26%	100
Enterprise Storage	409	Down 35 places-35	£519	+38.40%	67 0.24%	7
Smartphone	413	Down 80 places-80	£225	-10.00%	63 0.23%	11
FMCG	415	Down 65 places-65	£488	-7.14%	61 0.22%	86
Video Conferencing	417	Down 62 places-62	£338	+28.57%	59 0.21%	41
Renewable Energy	417	Down 74 places-74	£550	-8.33%	59 0.21%	73
CCTV	418	Down 48 places-48	£540	+5.36%	58 0.21%	170
Taxonomies	421	Down 53 places-53	£486	+6.75%	55 0.20%	8
IoT	422	Down 102 places-102	£538	-2.27%	54 0.19%	108