Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	62	Up 25 places+25	£491	-1.80%	1,030 3.62%	3,154
Cloud Native	73	Up 40 places+40	£525	+5.00%	937 3.29%	302
Product Ownership	88	Up 10 places+10	£500	+5.26%	796 2.80%	320
Management Information System	94	Up 12 places+12	£452	-8.23%	746 2.62%	586
Data Centre	115	Down 12 places-12	£514	+8.21%	619 2.17%	236
Enterprise Software	148	Up 105 places+105	£500	+11.48%	481 1.69%	259
Data Protection Act	159	Down 18 places-18	£425	-5.55%	445 1.56%	30
Driving Licence	208	Down 40 places-40	£190	-4.76%	335 1.18%	867
Distributed Systems	213	Up 53 places+53	£506	+4.44%	326 1.15%	136
Operational Technology	214	Up 67 places+67	£550	-	325 1.14%	174
Legacy Systems	216	Down 53 places-53	£525	-	322 1.13%	119
Self-Motivation	223	Down 35 places-35	£492	+14.75%	303 1.06%	400
AI Agents	228	Up 151 places+151	£513	-10.86%	295 1.04%	284
NHS	237	Down 1 place-1	£400	-2.43%	275 0.97%	225
Data Structures	244	Up 7 places+7	£475	-12.54%	266 0.93%	96
Virtual Team	247	Up 5 places+5	£500	+5.26%	262 0.92%	106
CMDB	251	Up 34 places+34	£500	-	257 0.90%	37
PKI	255	Up 9 places+9	£550	-	253 0.89%	60
Hybrid Cloud	265	Down 5 places-5	£595	+8.18%	238 0.84%	71
Security Posture	284	Down 35 places-35	£525	+1.44%	212 0.74%	110
Public Cloud	305	Down 38 places-38	£600	+14.28%	186 0.65%	53
Mobile App	307	Down 75 places-75	£425	-	184 0.65%	220
Cyber Threat	320	Down 10 places-10	£575	-2.54%	169 0.59%	244
SCADA	327	Down 36 places-36	£563	+12.50%	162 0.57%	217
Social Media	339	Up 17 places+17	£373	+30.33%	150 0.53%	110
Life Science	342	Up 14 places+14	£591	+1.81%	147 0.52%	80
Replication	345	Down 59 places-59	£500	+5.26%	144 0.51%	37
Greenfield Project	353	Down 22 places-22	£523	+4.50%	136 0.48%	73
Web Conferencing	356	Up 21 places+21	£376	+90.12%	133 0.47%	47
Analytical Mindset	368	Down 119 places-119	£463	+2.77%	120 0.42%	72
Private Cloud	372	Down 47 places-47	£581	+4.68%	116 0.41%	41
Podcast	377	Up 23 places+23	-	-	111 0.39%	58
Mainframe	379	Down 33 places-33	£530	+49.15%	109 0.38%	19
EPoS	380	Down 73 places-73	£155	-4.69%	108 0.38%	53
Algorithms	388	Down 130 places-130	£331	-34.77%	100 0.35%	241
Clustering	394	Down 29 places-29	£575	+45.29%	94 0.33%	21
Enterprise Cloud	394	Down 8 places-8	£535	+46.57%	94 0.33%	24
Robotics	395	Down 19 places-19	£650	+23.80%	93 0.33%	314
Security Operations Centre	395	Down 72 places-72	£540	-3.57%	93 0.33%	72
Linux Command Line	411	Down 66 places-66	£488	+18.18%	77 0.27%	55
Embedded Systems	413	Down 33 places-33	£488	+9.91%	75 0.26%	200
Low-Code	413	Down 50 places-50	£515	+24.84%	75 0.26%	64
Enterprise Storage	423	Down 35 places-35	£519	+38.40%	65 0.23%	17
CCTV	425	Down 44 places-44	£525	+2.43%	63 0.22%	189
FMCG	426	Down 67 places-67	£500	-5.21%	62 0.22%	90
Video Conferencing	427	Down 59 places-59	£338	+28.93%	61 0.21%	79
Renewable Energy	427	Down 71 places-71	£550	-8.33%	61 0.21%	71
Smartphone	427	Down 80 places-80	£225	-10.00%	61 0.21%	17
Freedom of Information	433	Down 63 places-63	£275	-35.67%	55 0.19%	10
IoT	433	Down 100 places-100	£525	-4.54%	55 0.19%	141