Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	61	Up 22 places+22	£492	-1.60%	1,019 3.62%	666
Cloud Native	71	Up 41 places+41	£525	+5.00%	919 3.26%	482
Product Ownership	87	Up 10 places+10	£500	+5.26%	792 2.81%	461
Management Information System	96	Up 12 places+12	£453	-4.63%	733 2.60%	827
Data Centre	114	Down 12 places-12	£500	+5.26%	617 2.19%	358
Enterprise Software	150	Up 95 places+95	£500	+11.85%	473 1.68%	307
Data Protection Act	159	Down 21 places-21	£425	-5.55%	446 1.58%	22
Operational Technology	207	Up 66 places+66	£550	-	327 1.16%	290
Driving Licence	208	Down 36 places-36	£180	-10.00%	326 1.16%	911
Distributed Systems	214	Up 41 places+41	£510	+3.65%	318 1.13%	212
Legacy Systems	214	Down 55 places-55	£525	-	318 1.13%	123
Self-Motivation	225	Down 37 places-37	£494	+12.85%	298 1.06%	475
AI Agents	229	Up 139 places+139	£513	-8.48%	289 1.03%	367
NHS	237	Up 2 places+2	£400	-2.43%	271 0.96%	224
Data Structures	243	Down 2 places-2	£475	-13.63%	263 0.93%	156
Virtual Team	245	Up 4 places+4	£500	+5.26%	261 0.93%	97
CMDB	249	Up 26 places+26	£500	-	256 0.91%	57
PKI	256	Down 2 places-2	£550	-	248 0.88%	76
Hybrid Cloud	264	Down 16 places-16	£595	+8.18%	234 0.83%	101
Security Posture	281	Down 36 places-36	£525	+1.94%	210 0.75%	183
Public Cloud	303	Down 44 places-44	£600	+14.28%	185 0.66%	95
Mobile App	307	Down 79 places-79	£425	-1.73%	180 0.64%	202
Cyber Threat	317	Down 14 places-14	£581	-3.12%	168 0.60%	230
SCADA	317	Down 35 places-35	£556	+11.25%	168 0.60%	253
Replication	338	Down 63 places-63	£500	+5.26%	147 0.52%	39
Social Media	340	Up 5 places+5	£373	+30.33%	145 0.52%	192
Life Science	341	Up 2 places+2	£581	+0.60%	144 0.51%	155
Greenfield Project	347	Down 25 places-25	£521	+4.77%	138 0.49%	105
Web Conferencing	350	Up 16 places+16	£376	+90.12%	134 0.48%	106
Analytical Mindset	365	Down 123 places-123	£463	+2.77%	118 0.42%	96
Private Cloud	368	Down 53 places-53	£600	+7.14%	115 0.41%	52
Mainframe	370	Down 35 places-35	£525	+47.88%	113 0.40%	29
EPoS	372	Down 70 places-70	£155	-4.69%	111 0.39%	58
Podcast	372	Up 17 places+17	-	-	111 0.39%	12
Algorithms	386	Down 139 places-139	£344	-32.16%	97 0.34%	297
Clustering	387	Down 32 places-32	£567	+43.33%	96 0.34%	18
Robotics	391	Down 26 places-26	£650	+23.80%	92 0.33%	375
Security Operations Centre	391	Down 80 places-80	£540	-3.57%	92 0.33%	75
Enterprise Cloud	392	Down 15 places-15	£535	+49.65%	91 0.32%	29
Linux Command Line	405	Down 71 places-71	£483	+16.96%	78 0.28%	71
Embedded Systems	408	Down 38 places-38	£488	+9.91%	75 0.27%	235
Low-Code	411	Down 59 places-59	£515	+24.72%	72 0.26%	139
Enterprise Storage	416	Down 41 places-41	£519	+38.40%	67 0.24%	22
Smartphone	421	Down 87 places-87	£225	-10.00%	62 0.22%	41
FMCG	422	Down 71 places-71	£488	-7.14%	61 0.22%	99
Video Conferencing	424	Down 68 places-68	£338	+28.57%	59 0.21%	99
Renewable Energy	424	Down 80 places-80	£550	-8.33%	59 0.21%	90
CCTV	425	Down 54 places-54	£540	+5.36%	58 0.21%	213
Taxonomies	428	Down 59 places-59	£486	+6.75%	55 0.20%	21
IoT	429	Down 108 places-108	£538	-2.27%	54 0.19%	177