Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	64	Up 18 places+18	£492	-1.60%	1,037 3.59%	1,402
Cloud Native	72	Up 38 places+38	£525	+5.00%	965 3.34%	919
Product Ownership	90	Up 8 places+8	£500	+5.26%	792 2.74%	918
Management Information System	97	Up 8 places+8	£460	-1.60%	747 2.58%	1,102
Data Centre	115	Down 6 places-6	£500	+5.26%	625 2.16%	694
Enterprise Software	142	Up 106 places+106	£500	+11.11%	509 1.76%	563
Data Protection Act	165	Down 27 places-27	£425	-5.55%	444 1.54%	50
Driving Licence	206	Down 47 places-47	£190	-	352 1.22%	1,453
Distributed Systems	211	Up 46 places+46	£501	+0.10%	342 1.18%	482
Legacy Systems	222	Down 60 places-60	£525	-	325 1.12%	273
Operational Technology	222	Up 44 places+44	£550	-	325 1.12%	376
AI Agents	231	Up 138 places+138	£513	-8.48%	304 1.05%	795
Self-Motivation	233	Down 47 places-47	£500	+17.64%	299 1.03%	961
NHS	240	Down 21 places-21	£400	-	287 0.99%	440
Data Structures	243	Down 2 places-2	£477	-12.00%	280 0.97%	260
Virtual Team	254	Down 13 places-13	£500	+5.26%	264 0.91%	241
CMDB	258	Up 13 places+13	£500	+5.26%	258 0.89%	109
PKI	263	Down 17 places-17	£550	-	252 0.87%	113
Hybrid Cloud	268	Down 21 places-21	£596	+8.40%	244 0.84%	235
Security Posture	291	Down 57 places-57	£525	+3.70%	211 0.73%	292
Public Cloud	307	Down 49 places-49	£600	+14.28%	190 0.66%	183
Mobile App	307	Down 97 places-97	£420	-1.17%	190 0.66%	257
Cyber Threat	321	Down 20 places-20	£575	-4.16%	174 0.60%	411
SCADA	338	Down 51 places-51	£550	+7.31%	156 0.54%	521
Social Media	341	Up 9 places+9	£373	-17.22%	153 0.53%	305
Life Science	342	Up 5 places+5	£591	+2.25%	152 0.53%	353
Replication	347	Down 77 places-77	£500	+5.26%	146 0.51%	112
Greenfield Project	358	Down 34 places-34	£525	+5.00%	135 0.47%	110
Web Conferencing	360	Up 6 places+6	£376	+75.05%	133 0.46%	174
Private Cloud	373	Down 55 places-55	£581	+5.63%	120 0.42%	100
Analytical Mindset	375	Down 142 places-142	£463	+2.77%	118 0.41%	176
Mainframe	382	Down 51 places-51	£550	+56.02%	111 0.38%	43
Podcast	382	Up 10 places+10	-	-	111 0.38%	31
EPoS	386	Down 91 places-91	£155	-4.69%	107 0.37%	106
Clustering	396	Down 37 places-37	£575	+28.92%	97 0.34%	60
Algorithms	397	Down 149 places-149	£325	-35.96%	96 0.33%	561
Enterprise Cloud	397	Down 19 places-19	£525	+43.83%	96 0.33%	90
Robotics	400	Down 33 places-33	£650	+30.00%	93 0.32%	907
Security Operations Centre	401	Down 89 places-89	£540	-3.39%	92 0.32%	131
Embedded Systems	411	Down 41 places-41	£488	+9.91%	82 0.28%	493
Video Conferencing	416	Down 56 places-56	£448	+70.96%	77 0.27%	102
Low-Code	418	Down 65 places-65	£514	+24.60%	75 0.26%	137
Enterprise Storage	419	Down 39 places-39	£525	+40.00%	74 0.26%	34
Linux Command Line	419	Down 85 places-85	£479	+17.84%	74 0.26%	127
CCTV	422	Down 50 places-50	£465	-5.82%	71 0.25%	310
FMCG	431	Down 83 places-83	£500	-5.88%	62 0.21%	184
Renewable Energy	432	Down 84 places-84	£550	-8.33%	61 0.21%	215
Smartphone	434	Down 93 places-93	£225	-10.00%	59 0.20%	90
Reference Data	435	Down 57 places-57	£442	-11.55%	58 0.20%	67
Freedom of Information	436	Down 75 places-75	£275	-35.29%	57 0.20%	13