Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	64	Up 20 places+20	£492	-1.60%	1,025 3.58%	553
Cloud Native	74	Up 37 places+37	£525	+5.00%	941 3.29%	231
Product Ownership	90	Up 6 places+6	£500	+5.26%	791 2.77%	283
Management Information System	97	Up 7 places+7	£450	-8.53%	745 2.60%	459
Data Centre	117	Down 15 places-15	£500	+5.26%	620 2.17%	204
Enterprise Software	149	Up 101 places+101	£500	+11.48%	488 1.71%	164
Data Protection Act	166	Down 25 places-25	£425	-5.55%	439 1.53%	22
Driving Licence	210	Down 46 places-46	£190	-	336 1.17%	755
Distributed Systems	218	Up 45 places+45	£506	+2.74%	327 1.14%	102
Operational Technology	219	Up 58 places+58	£550	-	326 1.14%	142
Legacy Systems	221	Down 55 places-55	£525	-	323 1.13%	91
Self-Motivation	233	Down 45 places-45	£500	+16.61%	302 1.06%	330
AI Agents	237	Up 139 places+139	£513	-10.86%	295 1.03%	209
NHS	249	Down 19 places-19	£388	-5.48%	273 0.95%	171
Data Structures	255	Down 8 places-8	£475	-13.09%	266 0.93%	60
Virtual Team	256	Down 7 places-7	£500	+5.26%	264 0.92%	93
CMDB	261	Up 20 places+20	£500	-	258 0.90%	30
PKI	268	Down 7 places-7	£550	-	250 0.87%	45
Hybrid Cloud	278	Down 23 places-23	£595	+8.18%	238 0.83%	53
Security Posture	296	Down 52 places-52	£525	+2.43%	214 0.75%	86
Public Cloud	316	Down 49 places-49	£590	+12.38%	187 0.65%	40
Mobile App	320	Down 92 places-92	£420	-1.17%	183 0.64%	370
Cyber Threat	332	Down 25 places-25	£575	-2.54%	171 0.60%	245
SCADA	338	Down 46 places-46	£550	+10.00%	165 0.58%	205
Social Media	351	No change0	£373	+1.24%	152 0.53%	92
Life Science	353	No change0	£591	+1.81%	149 0.52%	70
Replication	355	Down 75 places-75	£500	+5.26%	145 0.51%	27
Greenfield Project	365	Down 36 places-36	£524	+4.75%	135 0.47%	36
Web Conferencing	367	Up 6 places+6	£376	+82.28%	133 0.46%	44
Analytical Mindset	379	Down 134 places-134	£463	+2.77%	120 0.42%	60
Private Cloud	383	Down 62 places-62	£581	+5.63%	116 0.41%	33
Podcast	388	Up 9 places+9	-	-	111 0.39%	8
EPoS	390	Down 92 places-92	£155	-4.69%	109 0.38%	38
Mainframe	390	Down 47 places-47	£540	+52.11%	109 0.38%	15
Algorithms	399	Down 145 places-145	£331	-35.09%	100 0.35%	444
Enterprise Cloud	404	Down 21 places-21	£530	+45.20%	95 0.33%	17
Clustering	406	Down 44 places-44	£575	+45.29%	93 0.33%	18
Robotics	406	Down 33 places-33	£650	+23.80%	93 0.33%	333
Security Operations Centre	407	Down 89 places-89	£540	-3.48%	92 0.32%	36
Embedded Systems	419	Down 42 places-42	£488	+9.91%	80 0.28%	186
Linux Command Line	423	Down 81 places-81	£488	+18.18%	76 0.27%	49
Low-Code	424	Down 66 places-66	£515	+24.84%	75 0.26%	50
Enterprise Storage	431	Down 46 places-46	£525	+40.00%	68 0.24%	10
CCTV	435	Down 57 places-57	£525	+2.43%	64 0.22%	151
Video Conferencing	436	Down 71 places-71	£363	+38.49%	63 0.22%	64
Renewable Energy	437	Down 84 places-84	£550	-8.33%	62 0.22%	67
FMCG	437	Down 82 places-82	£500	-5.21%	62 0.22%	85
Smartphone	439	Down 94 places-94	£225	-10.00%	60 0.21%	14
IoT	443	Down 112 places-112	£525	-4.54%	56 0.20%	120
Freedom of Information	443	Down 77 places-77	£275	-35.67%	56 0.20%	7