Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	61	Up 24 places+24	£494	-1.25%	1,018 3.62%	366
Cloud Native	74	Up 36 places+36	£525	+5.00%	934 3.32%	248
Product Ownership	90	Up 8 places+8	£500	+5.26%	799 2.84%	263
Management Information System	104	Up 4 places+4	£456	-4.00%	712 2.53%	541
Data Centre	119	Down 17 places-17	£514	+8.21%	617 2.19%	173
Enterprise Software	154	Up 88 places+88	£500	+13.76%	465 1.65%	170
Data Protection Act	161	Down 22 places-22	£425	-5.55%	447 1.59%	19
Operational Technology	207	Up 69 places+69	£550	-	337 1.20%	140
Driving Licence	210	Down 38 places-38	£180	-10.00%	331 1.18%	676
Legacy Systems	218	Down 62 places-62	£525	-	320 1.14%	62
Distributed Systems	220	Up 31 places+31	£511	+7.36%	318 1.13%	93
Self-Motivation	229	Down 48 places-48	£500	+13.05%	301 1.07%	366
AI Agents	237	Up 130 places+130	£513	-8.48%	282 1.00%	148
Data Structures	243	Down 13 places-13	£475	-13.63%	269 0.96%	63
Virtual Team	249	Down 1 place-1	£500	+5.26%	261 0.93%	39
NHS	253	Down 15 places-15	£400	-	257 0.91%	173
CMDB	254	Up 22 places+22	£500	-	254 0.90%	40
PKI	256	Down 7 places-7	£550	-	251 0.89%	43
Hybrid Cloud	264	Down 19 places-19	£595	+8.18%	234 0.83%	48
Security Posture	282	Down 35 places-35	£525	+1.20%	214 0.76%	120
Public Cloud	307	Down 55 places-55	£595	+13.33%	182 0.65%	36
Mobile App	307	Down 81 places-81	£425	-4.49%	182 0.65%	80
SCADA	316	Down 37 places-37	£550	+10.00%	170 0.60%	199
Cyber Threat	320	Down 20 places-20	£588	-2.08%	166 0.59%	151
Replication	340	Down 66 places-66	£500	+5.26%	144 0.51%	24
Social Media	341	Up 6 places+6	£373	+30.33%	143 0.51%	131
Life Science	343	Down 2 places-2	£581	+1.04%	141 0.50%	44
Greenfield Project	344	Down 23 places-23	£521	+4.77%	140 0.50%	40
Web Conferencing	350	Up 16 places+16	£376	+90.12%	134 0.48%	35
Analytical Mindset	360	Down 125 places-125	£463	+2.77%	124 0.44%	63
Mainframe	369	Down 42 places-42	£527	+47.20%	115 0.41%	12
Private Cloud	372	Down 60 places-60	£581	+5.63%	112 0.40%	34
EPoS	372	Down 68 places-68	£155	-4.69%	112 0.40%	37
Podcast	373	Up 15 places+15	-	-	111 0.39%	4
Clustering	385	Down 28 places-28	£555	+60.68%	99 0.35%	12
Robotics	390	Down 25 places-25	£650	+30.00%	94 0.33%	284
Security Operations Centre	391	Down 77 places-77	£540	-3.39%	93 0.33%	33
Algorithms	393	Down 148 places-148	£361	-28.91%	91 0.32%	147
Enterprise Cloud	396	Down 17 places-17	£535	+52.85%	88 0.31%	16
Linux Command Line	405	Down 71 places-71	£479	+16.06%	79 0.28%	49
Embedded Systems	410	Down 40 places-40	£488	+9.91%	74 0.26%	179
Low-Code	412	Down 60 places-60	£515	+21.05%	72 0.26%	44
Enterprise Storage	418	Down 44 places-44	£510	+35.86%	66 0.23%	9
Smartphone	420	Down 87 places-87	£225	-10.00%	64 0.23%	12
FMCG	421	Down 71 places-71	£475	-9.95%	63 0.22%	84
Video Conferencing	423	Down 67 places-67	£338	+25.93%	61 0.22%	40
CCTV	425	Down 54 places-54	£540	+2.85%	59 0.21%	159
Renewable Energy	426	Down 83 places-83	£550	-8.33%	58 0.21%	81
Taxonomies	428	Down 60 places-60	£486	+6.75%	56 0.20%	9
IoT	430	Down 108 places-108	£550	-4.34%	54 0.19%	120