Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 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%	1,027 3.63%	3,045
Cloud Native	72	Up 41 places+41	£525	+5.00%	925 3.27%	345
Product Ownership	89	Up 9 places+9	£500	+5.26%	794 2.81%	365
Management Information System	97	Up 9 places+9	£450	-8.53%	740 2.62%	542
Data Centre	116	Down 13 places-13	£514	+8.21%	614 2.17%	269
Enterprise Software	149	Up 104 places+104	£500	+11.48%	477 1.69%	235
Data Protection Act	160	Down 19 places-19	£425	-5.55%	445 1.57%	25
Driving Licence	211	Down 43 places-43	£190	-4.76%	328 1.16%	805
Operational Technology	215	Up 66 places+66	£550	-	323 1.14%	183
Distributed Systems	216	Up 50 places+50	£501	+3.51%	322 1.14%	154
Legacy Systems	218	Down 55 places-55	£525	-	320 1.13%	108
Self-Motivation	226	Down 38 places-38	£492	+14.75%	302 1.07%	408
AI Agents	231	Up 148 places+148	£513	-10.86%	293 1.04%	294
NHS	239	Down 3 places-3	£400	-2.43%	272 0.96%	215
Data Structures	246	Up 5 places+5	£475	-12.54%	263 0.93%	112
Virtual Team	248	Up 4 places+4	£500	+5.26%	261 0.92%	68
CMDB	251	Up 34 places+34	£500	-	256 0.91%	35
PKI	254	Up 10 places+10	£550	-	253 0.90%	57
Hybrid Cloud	263	Down 3 places-3	£595	+8.18%	236 0.84%	81
Security Posture	284	Down 35 places-35	£525	+1.44%	210 0.74%	121
Public Cloud	306	Down 39 places-39	£600	+14.28%	184 0.65%	66
Mobile App	307	Down 75 places-75	£425	-	183 0.65%	198
Cyber Threat	320	Down 10 places-10	£575	-2.54%	169 0.60%	257
SCADA	328	Down 37 places-37	£563	+12.55%	161 0.57%	233
Social Media	338	Up 18 places+18	£373	+30.33%	150 0.53%	129
Life Science	341	Up 15 places+15	£591	+1.81%	147 0.52%	108
Replication	344	Down 58 places-58	£500	+5.26%	143 0.51%	37
Greenfield Project	350	Down 19 places-19	£523	+4.50%	136 0.48%	77
Web Conferencing	353	Up 24 places+24	£376	+90.12%	133 0.47%	50
Analytical Mindset	366	Down 117 places-117	£463	+2.77%	119 0.42%	74
Private Cloud	369	Down 44 places-44	£581	+4.68%	116 0.41%	39
Podcast	374	Up 26 places+26	-	-	111 0.39%	56
Mainframe	377	Down 31 places-31	£529	+49.01%	108 0.38%	23
EPoS	377	Down 70 places-70	£155	-4.69%	108 0.38%	55
Algorithms	385	Down 127 places-127	£331	-34.77%	100 0.35%	227
Clustering	391	Down 26 places-26	£575	+45.29%	94 0.33%	17
Enterprise Cloud	392	Down 6 places-6	£535	+46.57%	93 0.33%	27
Robotics	392	Down 16 places-16	£650	+23.80%	93 0.33%	357
Security Operations Centre	392	Down 69 places-69	£540	-3.57%	93 0.33%	70
Linux Command Line	409	Down 64 places-64	£483	+16.96%	76 0.27%	62
Low-Code	411	Down 48 places-48	£515	+24.72%	74 0.26%	67
Embedded Systems	411	Down 31 places-31	£488	+9.91%	74 0.26%	202
Enterprise Storage	421	Down 33 places-33	£519	+38.40%	64 0.23%	20
CCTV	422	Down 41 places-41	£525	+2.43%	63 0.22%	186
FMCG	423	Down 64 places-64	£500	-5.21%	62 0.22%	93
Smartphone	424	Down 77 places-77	£225	-10.00%	61 0.22%	24
Video Conferencing	424	Down 56 places-56	£338	+28.93%	61 0.22%	60
Renewable Energy	424	Down 68 places-68	£550	-8.33%	61 0.22%	76
IoT	430	Down 97 places-97	£525	-4.54%	55 0.19%	145
Freedom of Information	430	Down 60 places-60	£275	-35.67%	55 0.19%	10