Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	61	Up 20 places+20	£492	-1.60%	1,021 3.58%	1,197
Cloud Native	72	Up 34 places+34	£525	+5.00%	940 3.30%	873
Product Ownership	88	Up 5 places+5	£500	+5.26%	786 2.76%	925
Management Information System	96	Up 2 places+2	£450	-5.26%	741 2.60%	1,057
Data Centre	116	Down 15 places-15	£500	+5.26%	618 2.17%	617
Enterprise Software	147	Up 91 places+91	£500	+11.48%	489 1.72%	561
Data Protection Act	163	Down 29 places-29	£425	-5.55%	437 1.53%	47
Driving Licence	207	Down 52 places-52	£190	-	336 1.18%	1,096
Distributed Systems	215	Up 35 places+35	£506	+2.74%	325 1.14%	458
Operational Technology	217	Up 46 places+46	£550	-	323 1.13%	383
Legacy Systems	218	Down 65 places-65	£525	-	320 1.12%	280
Self-Motivation	228	Down 49 places-49	£500	+16.61%	301 1.06%	833
AI Agents	230	Up 135 places+135	£513	-10.86%	296 1.04%	705
NHS	238	Down 18 places-18	£375	-7.40%	274 0.96%	369
Data Structures	243	Down 5 places-5	£475	-12.54%	266 0.93%	225
Virtual Team	245	Down 8 places-8	£500	+5.26%	264 0.93%	257
CMDB	248	Up 20 places+20	£500	-	257 0.90%	100
PKI	256	Down 8 places-8	£550	-	245 0.86%	106
Hybrid Cloud	262	Down 19 places-19	£595	+8.18%	238 0.84%	211
Security Posture	279	Down 46 places-46	£525	+2.43%	213 0.75%	277
Public Cloud	300	Down 47 places-47	£590	+12.38%	187 0.66%	183
Mobile App	307	Down 90 places-90	£413	-2.94%	179 0.63%	232
Cyber Threat	315	Down 18 places-18	£575	-4.16%	169 0.59%	363
SCADA	323	Down 42 places-42	£550	+7.31%	161 0.56%	497
Social Media	332	Up 10 places+10	£373	+1.24%	152 0.53%	255
Life Science	335	Up 7 places+7	£591	+1.81%	149 0.52%	320
Replication	339	Down 72 places-72	£500	+5.26%	145 0.51%	89
Web Conferencing	350	Up 12 places+12	£376	+82.28%	133 0.47%	128
Greenfield Project	351	Down 33 places-33	£524	+4.75%	132 0.46%	91
Analytical Mindset	364	Down 131 places-131	£463	+2.77%	119 0.42%	140
Private Cloud	367	Down 56 places-56	£581	+4.68%	116 0.41%	100
Podcast	372	Up 14 places+14	-	-	111 0.39%	22
Mainframe	374	Down 42 places-42	£540	+52.11%	109 0.38%	40
EPoS	375	Down 88 places-88	£155	-4.69%	108 0.38%	62
Algorithms	384	Down 141 places-141	£328	-35.68%	98 0.34%	500
Enterprise Cloud	387	Down 15 places-15	£530	+45.20%	95 0.33%	81
Robotics	389	Down 27 places-27	£650	+23.80%	93 0.33%	880
Clustering	390	Down 39 places-39	£567	+43.33%	92 0.32%	50
Security Operations Centre	395	Down 87 places-87	£540	-3.48%	87 0.31%	108
Embedded Systems	402	Down 36 places-36	£488	+9.91%	80 0.28%	456
Linux Command Line	407	Down 77 places-77	£483	+16.96%	75 0.26%	117
Low-Code	408	Down 61 places-61	£515	+24.72%	74 0.26%	129
Enterprise Storage	414	Down 40 places-40	£525	+40.00%	68 0.24%	33
CCTV	418	Down 51 places-51	£525	+2.43%	64 0.22%	239
Video Conferencing	419	Down 65 places-65	£363	+38.49%	63 0.22%	76
FMCG	420	Down 75 places-75	£500	-5.66%	62 0.22%	164
Renewable Energy	421	Down 79 places-79	£550	-8.33%	61 0.21%	196
Smartphone	423	Down 89 places-89	£225	-10.00%	59 0.21%	66
IoT	426	Down 105 places-105	£525	-4.54%	56 0.20%	402
Freedom of Information	427	Down 72 places-72	£275	-35.67%	55 0.19%	9