Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	63	Up 19 places+19	£492	-1.60%	1,017 3.61%	847
Cloud Native	74	Up 33 places+33	£525	+5.00%	919 3.26%	542
Product Ownership	90	Up 5 places+5	£500	+5.26%	792 2.81%	546
Management Information System	101	Up 4 places+4	£452	-4.94%	732 2.60%	846
Data Centre	117	Down 19 places-19	£500	+5.26%	619 2.20%	440
Enterprise Software	153	Up 90 places+90	£500	+12.61%	473 1.68%	413
Data Protection Act	161	Down 28 places-28	£425	-4.49%	446 1.58%	28
Operational Technology	210	Up 61 places+61	£550	-	328 1.17%	273
Driving Licence	212	Down 45 places-45	£180	-10.00%	326 1.16%	889
Legacy Systems	218	Down 61 places-61	£525	-	318 1.13%	143
Distributed Systems	218	Up 35 places+35	£510	+3.65%	318 1.13%	249
Self-Motivation	228	Down 48 places-48	£494	+13.50%	300 1.07%	607
AI Agents	233	Up 134 places+134	£513	-8.48%	287 1.02%	414
NHS	243	Down 10 places-10	£400	-2.43%	268 0.95%	278
Data Structures	247	Down 12 places-12	£475	-13.63%	263 0.93%	207
Virtual Team	248	Down 1 place-1	£500	+5.26%	261 0.93%	155
CMDB	252	Up 21 places+21	£500	-	256 0.91%	62
PKI	258	Down 5 places-5	£550	-	248 0.88%	86
Hybrid Cloud	266	Down 21 places-21	£595	+8.18%	234 0.83%	128
Security Posture	283	Down 41 places-41	£525	+1.94%	211 0.75%	167
Public Cloud	304	Down 47 places-47	£600	+14.28%	186 0.66%	116
Mobile App	307	Down 84 places-84	£425	-3.40%	181 0.64%	223
Cyber Threat	319	Down 18 places-18	£581	-3.12%	168 0.60%	228
SCADA	320	Down 40 places-40	£556	+11.25%	167 0.59%	303
Replication	340	Down 67 places-67	£500	+5.26%	147 0.52%	49
Social Media	340	Up 5 places+5	£373	+30.33%	147 0.52%	256
Life Science	342	No change0	£581	+0.60%	144 0.51%	207
Greenfield Project	346	Down 25 places-25	£523	+5.02%	139 0.49%	104
Web Conferencing	350	Up 16 places+16	£376	+90.12%	134 0.48%	74
Analytical Mindset	364	Down 128 places-128	£463	+2.77%	119 0.42%	122
Private Cloud	368	Down 54 places-54	£600	+7.14%	115 0.41%	60
Mainframe	370	Down 36 places-36	£525	+47.88%	113 0.40%	33
EPoS	371	Down 74 places-74	£155	-4.69%	112 0.40%	67
Podcast	372	Up 16 places+16	-	-	111 0.39%	15
Clustering	387	Down 33 places-33	£567	+43.33%	96 0.34%	24
Algorithms	387	Down 143 places-143	£358	-29.55%	96 0.34%	396
Robotics	389	Down 25 places-25	£650	+23.80%	94 0.33%	473
Security Operations Centre	391	Down 81 places-81	£540	-3.57%	92 0.33%	72
Enterprise Cloud	393	Down 15 places-15	£535	+52.85%	90 0.32%	32
Linux Command Line	405	Down 72 places-72	£483	+16.96%	78 0.28%	84
Embedded Systems	408	Down 39 places-39	£488	+9.91%	75 0.27%	305
Low-Code	411	Down 60 places-60	£515	+24.72%	72 0.26%	130
Enterprise Storage	416	Down 42 places-42	£519	+38.40%	67 0.24%	25
Smartphone	420	Down 87 places-87	£225	-10.00%	63 0.22%	56
FMCG	421	Down 71 places-71	£488	-7.14%	62 0.22%	107
Video Conferencing	424	Down 69 places-69	£338	+28.57%	59 0.21%	70
Renewable Energy	424	Down 81 places-81	£550	-8.33%	59 0.21%	134
CCTV	425	Down 55 places-55	£540	+5.36%	58 0.21%	232
Taxonomies	428	Down 60 places-60	£486	+6.75%	55 0.20%	32
IoT	429	Down 109 places-109	£538	-2.27%	54 0.19%	244