Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	62	Up 24 places+24	£492	-1.55%	1,016 3.61%	382
Cloud Native	75	Up 37 places+37	£525	+5.00%	937 3.33%	249
Product Ownership	89	Up 9 places+9	£500	+5.26%	794 2.82%	305
Management Information System	105	Up 4 places+4	£456	-4.00%	705 2.50%	587
Data Centre	119	Down 16 places-16	£514	+8.21%	625 2.22%	172
Enterprise Software	161	Up 90 places+90	£500	+13.76%	456 1.62%	173
Data Protection Act	164	Down 21 places-21	£425	-5.55%	452 1.61%	18
Operational Technology	208	Up 77 places+77	£550	-	339 1.20%	177
Driving Licence	216	Down 38 places-38	£185	-7.50%	327 1.16%	722
Legacy Systems	217	Down 54 places-54	£525	-	326 1.16%	61
Distributed Systems	221	Up 40 places+40	£511	+7.46%	319 1.13%	93
Self-Motivation	232	Down 43 places-43	£500	+13.05%	300 1.07%	381
AI Agents	241	Up 133 places+133	£513	-8.48%	282 1.00%	140
Data Structures	249	Down 8 places-8	£475	-13.63%	266 0.95%	67
Virtual Team	253	Up 4 places+4	£500	+5.26%	262 0.93%	36
NHS	258	Down 11 places-11	£400	-	254 0.90%	172
CMDB	260	Up 28 places+28	£500	-	252 0.90%	43
PKI	262	Down 4 places-4	£550	-	249 0.88%	37
Hybrid Cloud	268	Down 14 places-14	£596	+8.40%	237 0.84%	49
Security Posture	282	Down 27 places-27	£529	+1.92%	220 0.78%	148
Mobile App	310	Down 75 places-75	£425	-3.40%	184 0.65%	85
Public Cloud	311	Down 49 places-49	£600	+14.28%	183 0.65%	35
SCADA	323	Down 34 places-34	£563	+12.55%	168 0.60%	214
Cyber Threat	325	Down 18 places-18	£588	-2.08%	166 0.59%	157
Replication	345	Down 62 places-62	£500	+5.26%	144 0.51%	25
Social Media	349	Up 5 places+5	£373	+30.33%	140 0.50%	149
Life Science	351	Down 3 places-3	£581	+1.04%	138 0.49%	47
Greenfield Project	351	Down 19 places-19	£523	+7.17%	138 0.49%	40
Web Conferencing	355	Up 18 places+18	£376	+90.12%	134 0.48%	34
Analytical Mindset	360	Down 115 places-115	£455	+1.00%	129 0.46%	66
Mainframe	373	Down 39 places-39	£527	+47.20%	115 0.41%	12
Private Cloud	377	Down 56 places-56	£591	+6.39%	111 0.39%	34
Podcast	377	Up 18 places+18	-	-	111 0.39%	4
EPoS	379	Down 65 places-65	£155	-4.69%	109 0.39%	39
Clustering	389	Down 23 places-23	£555	+60.10%	99 0.35%	12
Robotics	395	Down 22 places-22	£650	+48.57%	93 0.33%	291
Security Operations Centre	395	Down 74 places-74	£540	-3.39%	93 0.33%	32
Algorithms	397	Down 144 places-144	£361	-28.91%	91 0.32%	150
Enterprise Cloud	400	Down 14 places-14	£535	+52.85%	88 0.31%	17
Linux Command Line	409	Down 65 places-65	£479	+11.66%	79 0.28%	53
Embedded Systems	412	Down 35 places-35	£488	+9.91%	76 0.27%	195
Low-Code	417	Down 57 places-57	£515	+21.17%	71 0.25%	42
Enterprise Storage	422	Down 41 places-41	£510	+35.86%	66 0.23%	9
FMCG	425	Down 67 places-67	£475	-10.37%	63 0.22%	87
Smartphone	425	Down 88 places-88	£225	-10.00%	63 0.22%	13
Video Conferencing	427	Down 64 places-64	£338	+25.93%	61 0.22%	40
CCTV	429	Down 51 places-51	£540	+2.85%	59 0.21%	185
Renewable Energy	430	Down 80 places-80	£550	-8.33%	58 0.21%	85
Taxonomies	432	Down 57 places-57	£486	+6.75%	56 0.20%	11
IoT	433	Down 104 places-104	£550	-4.34%	55 0.20%	121