Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	62	Up 19 places+19	£494	-1.29%	998 3.54%	1,178
Cloud Native	72	Up 33 places+33	£525	+5.00%	931 3.30%	937
Product Ownership	84	Up 11 places+11	£500	+5.26%	799 2.83%	942
Management Information System	101	Up 3 places+3	£460	-6.50%	694 2.46%	1,191
Data Centre	112	Down 16 places-16	£500	+5.26%	633 2.24%	597
Enterprise Software	159	Up 86 places+86	£500	+13.76%	450 1.60%	607
Data Protection Act	162	Down 22 places-22	£425	-5.55%	441 1.56%	38
Operational Technology	206	Up 69 places+69	£550	-	335 1.19%	454
Legacy Systems	210	Down 52 places-52	£525	-	326 1.16%	197
Driving Licence	215	Down 42 places-42	£190	-5.00%	320 1.13%	1,089
Distributed Systems	217	Up 36 places+36	£510	+7.36%	317 1.12%	431
Self-Motivation	226	Down 47 places-47	£500	+13.05%	299 1.06%	866
AI Agents	237	Up 125 places+125	£513	-8.48%	278 0.99%	684
Data Structures	247	Down 14 places-14	£475	-13.63%	262 0.93%	235
Virtual Team	253	Down 4 places-4	£500	+5.26%	254 0.90%	256
NHS	253	Down 11 places-11	£394	-1.56%	254 0.90%	342
PKI	257	Down 7 places-7	£550	-	249 0.88%	105
CMDB	257	Up 21 places+21	£500	-	249 0.88%	94
Hybrid Cloud	264	Down 17 places-17	£600	+9.09%	238 0.84%	240
Security Posture	278	Down 31 places-31	£533	+2.65%	218 0.77%	348
Mobile App	302	Down 73 places-73	£425	-3.40%	186 0.66%	250
Public Cloud	313	Down 58 places-58	£590	+12.38%	175 0.62%	172
SCADA	319	Down 40 places-40	£563	+12.55%	168 0.60%	496
Cyber Threat	320	Down 24 places-24	£588	-2.08%	167 0.59%	268
Replication	342	Down 68 places-68	£500	+5.26%	143 0.51%	74
Social Media	343	Down 1 place-1	£373	+30.33%	142 0.50%	277
Greenfield Project	348	Down 28 places-28	£524	+7.43%	137 0.49%	112
Life Science	350	Down 14 places-14	£581	+1.04%	135 0.48%	275
Web Conferencing	351	Up 12 places+12	£376	+75.05%	134 0.48%	148
Analytical Mindset	356	Down 119 places-119	£455	+1.00%	129 0.46%	147
Mainframe	370	Down 46 places-46	£525	+46.64%	114 0.40%	44
Podcast	373	Up 10 places+10	-	-	111 0.39%	10
EPoS	376	Down 74 places-74	£155	-4.69%	108 0.38%	60
Private Cloud	378	Down 69 places-69	£581	+4.68%	106 0.38%	116
Clustering	386	Down 32 places-32	£550	+58.73%	98 0.35%	39
Robotics	387	Down 26 places-26	£650	+48.57%	97 0.34%	719
Security Operations Centre	391	Down 81 places-81	£540	-3.48%	93 0.33%	116
Algorithms	392	Down 146 places-146	£358	-29.55%	92 0.33%	530
Enterprise Cloud	396	Down 22 places-22	£530	+51.42%	88 0.31%	79
Linux Command Line	407	Down 75 places-75	£479	+11.66%	77 0.27%	107
Embedded Systems	410	Down 45 places-45	£488	+9.91%	74 0.26%	479
Low-Code	413	Down 63 places-63	£515	+21.17%	71 0.25%	116
Enterprise Storage	417	Down 48 places-48	£500	+33.33%	67 0.24%	28
Smartphone	422	Down 97 places-97	£225	-10.00%	62 0.22%	62
FMCG	422	Down 75 places-75	£475	-9.95%	62 0.22%	152
Video Conferencing	423	Down 72 places-72	£338	+25.93%	61 0.22%	76
CCTV	425	Down 59 places-59	£540	+2.85%	59 0.21%	272
Renewable Energy	425	Down 87 places-87	£550	-8.33%	59 0.21%	228
Taxonomies	429	Down 66 places-66	£484	+6.37%	55 0.20%	31
IoT	430	Down 113 places-113	£550	-4.34%	54 0.19%	409