Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	64	Up 19 places+19	£492	-1.60%	1,034 3.58%	1,432
Cloud Native	74	Up 39 places+39	£525	+5.00%	963 3.33%	963
Product Ownership	91	Up 6 places+6	£500	+5.26%	798 2.76%	906
Management Information System	100	Up 2 places+2	£453	-4.63%	750 2.60%	1,121
Data Centre	117	Down 8 places-8	£500	+5.26%	628 2.17%	709
Enterprise Software	149	Up 97 places+97	£500	+11.11%	508 1.76%	565
Data Protection Act	169	Down 29 places-29	£425	-5.55%	442 1.53%	50
Driving Licence	213	Down 45 places-45	£190	-	350 1.21%	1,503
Distributed Systems	220	Up 37 places+37	£500	+1.52%	337 1.17%	522
Legacy Systems	229	Down 59 places-59	£525	-	326 1.13%	276
Operational Technology	230	Up 38 places+38	£550	-	325 1.13%	371
Self-Motivation	240	Down 46 places-46	£500	+17.64%	303 1.05%	1,019
AI Agents	241	Up 129 places+129	£513	-8.48%	302 1.05%	799
NHS	248	Down 23 places-23	£400	-	287 0.99%	443
Data Structures	254	Down 10 places-10	£475	-12.52%	278 0.96%	264
Virtual Team	261	Down 18 places-18	£500	+5.26%	265 0.92%	269
CMDB	269	Up 7 places+7	£500	-	256 0.89%	117
PKI	273	Down 24 places-24	£550	-	250 0.87%	115
Hybrid Cloud	280	Down 30 places-30	£598	+8.63%	239 0.83%	235
Security Posture	298	Down 59 places-59	£525	+2.43%	215 0.74%	295
Public Cloud	318	Down 59 places-59	£600	+14.28%	189 0.65%	190
Mobile App	320	Down 98 places-98	£420	-1.17%	187 0.65%	490
Cyber Threat	331	Down 27 places-27	£575	-4.16%	175 0.61%	405
SCADA	345	Down 57 places-57	£550	+7.31%	161 0.56%	512
Social Media	350	Up 1 place+1	£373	-17.22%	154 0.53%	309
Life Science	353	Down 4 places-4	£591	+1.81%	151 0.52%	396
Replication	357	Down 86 places-86	£500	+5.26%	147 0.51%	106
Greenfield Project	369	Down 44 places-44	£525	+5.00%	135 0.47%	106
Web Conferencing	371	Down 3 places-3	£376	+82.28%	133 0.46%	172
Analytical Mindset	383	Down 144 places-144	£463	+2.77%	119 0.41%	179
Private Cloud	386	Down 68 places-68	£581	+5.63%	116 0.40%	98
Podcast	391	Up 2 places+2	-	-	111 0.38%	30
Mainframe	392	Down 54 places-54	£550	+54.92%	110 0.38%	41
EPoS	394	Down 102 places-102	£155	-4.69%	108 0.37%	101
Algorithms	405	Down 155 places-155	£328	-35.36%	97 0.34%	790
Clustering	406	Down 46 places-46	£581	+30.26%	96 0.33%	60
Enterprise Cloud	406	Down 27 places-27	£525	+43.83%	96 0.33%	89
Security Operations Centre	407	Down 93 places-93	£540	-3.48%	95 0.33%	127
Robotics	408	Down 40 places-40	£650	+30.00%	93 0.32%	911
Embedded Systems	420	Down 48 places-48	£488	+9.91%	81 0.28%	519
Linux Command Line	426	Down 89 places-89	£475	+15.15%	75 0.26%	125
Video Conferencing	427	Down 66 places-66	£495	+89.11%	74 0.26%	104
Low-Code	427	Down 73 places-73	£515	+24.72%	74 0.26%	135
Enterprise Storage	428	Down 47 places-47	£525	+40.00%	73 0.25%	37
CCTV	429	Down 55 places-55	£465	-9.26%	72 0.25%	325
FMCG	439	Down 88 places-88	£500	-5.88%	62 0.21%	183
Renewable Energy	440	Down 91 places-91	£550	-8.33%	61 0.21%	216
Smartphone	442	Down 101 places-101	£225	-10.00%	59 0.20%	97
Freedom of Information	444	Down 82 places-82	£275	-35.29%	57 0.20%	14
Reference Data	444	Down 65 places-65	£438	-12.50%	57 0.20%	72