Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	62	Up 21 places+21	£493	-1.50%	999 3.55%	1,183
Cloud Native	74	Up 32 places+32	£525	+5.00%	930 3.30%	934
Product Ownership	88	Up 8 places+8	£500	+5.26%	798 2.84%	941
Management Information System	106	Down 1 place-1	£460	-6.50%	696 2.47%	1,219
Data Centre	116	Down 19 places-19	£500	+5.26%	633 2.25%	595
Enterprise Software	163	Up 82 places+82	£500	+13.76%	451 1.60%	603
Data Protection Act	167	Down 29 places-29	£425	-5.55%	441 1.57%	36
Operational Technology	214	Up 64 places+64	£550	-	335 1.19%	487
Legacy Systems	218	Down 61 places-61	£525	-	326 1.16%	196
Driving Licence	222	Down 49 places-49	£190	-5.00%	321 1.14%	1,093
Distributed Systems	225	Up 30 places+30	£510	+7.25%	317 1.13%	431
Self-Motivation	236	Down 55 places-55	£500	+13.05%	297 1.06%	863
AI Agents	246	Up 119 places+119	£513	-8.48%	278 0.99%	683
Data Structures	257	Down 24 places-24	£475	-13.63%	263 0.93%	235
NHS	263	Down 21 places-21	£394	-1.56%	254 0.90%	341
Virtual Team	263	Down 13 places-13	£500	+5.26%	254 0.90%	255
PKI	267	Down 16 places-16	£550	-	249 0.88%	105
CMDB	267	Up 14 places+14	£500	-	249 0.88%	94
Hybrid Cloud	274	Down 26 places-26	£600	+9.09%	238 0.85%	240
Security Posture	291	Down 43 places-43	£533	+2.65%	215 0.76%	348
Mobile App	316	Down 88 places-88	£425	-3.40%	184 0.65%	247
Public Cloud	324	Down 68 places-68	£590	+12.38%	175 0.62%	171
SCADA	329	Down 47 places-47	£563	+12.55%	168 0.60%	501
Cyber Threat	330	Down 31 places-31	£588	-2.08%	167 0.59%	268
Replication	352	Down 75 places-75	£500	+5.26%	143 0.51%	74
Social Media	355	Down 10 places-10	£373	+30.33%	140 0.50%	278
Greenfield Project	358	Down 35 places-35	£524	+7.43%	137 0.49%	112
Life Science	360	Down 21 places-21	£581	+1.04%	135 0.48%	275
Web Conferencing	361	Up 3 places+3	£376	+90.12%	134 0.48%	149
Analytical Mindset	365	Down 128 places-128	£455	+1.00%	129 0.46%	150
Mainframe	380	Down 53 places-53	£525	+46.64%	114 0.41%	44
Podcast	383	Up 3 places+3	-	-	111 0.39%	10
EPoS	388	Down 83 places-83	£155	-4.69%	106 0.38%	59
Private Cloud	388	Down 76 places-76	£581	+4.68%	106 0.38%	116
Clustering	396	Down 39 places-39	£550	+58.73%	98 0.35%	39
Robotics	400	Down 36 places-36	£650	+48.57%	94 0.33%	721
Security Operations Centre	402	Down 89 places-89	£540	-3.48%	92 0.33%	117
Algorithms	403	Down 157 places-157	£361	-28.91%	91 0.32%	529
Enterprise Cloud	406	Down 29 places-29	£530	+51.42%	88 0.31%	79
Linux Command Line	417	Down 82 places-82	£479	+11.66%	77 0.27%	108
Embedded Systems	420	Down 52 places-52	£488	+9.91%	74 0.26%	480
Low-Code	423	Down 70 places-70	£515	+21.17%	71 0.25%	117
Enterprise Storage	427	Down 55 places-55	£500	+33.33%	67 0.24%	28
FMCG	432	Down 82 places-82	£475	-9.95%	62 0.22%	152
Smartphone	432	Down 104 places-104	£225	-10.00%	62 0.22%	60
Video Conferencing	433	Down 79 places-79	£338	+25.93%	61 0.22%	76
Renewable Energy	434	Down 93 places-93	£550	-8.33%	60 0.21%	224
CCTV	434	Down 65 places-65	£540	+2.85%	60 0.21%	272
Taxonomies	439	Down 73 places-73	£484	+6.37%	55 0.20%	31
IoT	440	Down 120 places-120	£550	-4.34%	54 0.19%	411