Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	60	Up 21 places+21	£492	-1.55%	1,019 3.62%	379
Cloud Native	70	Up 38 places+38	£525	+5.00%	927 3.29%	250
Product Ownership	86	Up 10 places+10	£500	+5.26%	797 2.83%	281
Management Information System	98	Up 8 places+8	£458	-3.57%	721 2.56%	523
Data Centre	116	Down 18 places-18	£514	+8.21%	614 2.18%	168
Enterprise Software	152	Up 94 places+94	£500	+13.57%	470 1.67%	170
Data Protection Act	161	Down 21 places-21	£425	-5.55%	444 1.58%	20
Operational Technology	205	Up 76 places+76	£550	-	334 1.19%	186
Driving Licence	208	Down 35 places-35	£180	-10.00%	330 1.17%	711
Legacy Systems	213	Down 53 places-53	£525	-	322 1.14%	66
Distributed Systems	217	Up 41 places+41	£511	+5.47%	316 1.12%	93
Self-Motivation	227	Down 45 places-45	£500	+13.05%	299 1.06%	347
AI Agents	234	Up 137 places+137	£513	-8.48%	283 1.00%	149
Data Structures	242	Down 4 places-4	£475	-12.54%	268 0.95%	60
NHS	244	No change0	£400	-	266 0.94%	188
Virtual Team	245	Up 8 places+8	£500	+5.26%	264 0.94%	38
CMDB	253	Up 31 places+31	£500	-1.11%	255 0.91%	42
PKI	255	Up 2 places+2	£550	-	251 0.89%	41
Hybrid Cloud	264	Down 15 places-15	£596	+8.40%	235 0.83%	44
Security Posture	280	Down 29 places-29	£525	+2.43%	212 0.75%	135
Public Cloud	302	Down 40 places-40	£600	+14.28%	185 0.66%	43
Mobile App	305	Down 74 places-74	£425	-5.55%	182 0.65%	83
SCADA	317	Down 32 places-32	£556	+11.25%	169 0.60%	206
Cyber Threat	320	Down 15 places-15	£588	-2.08%	166 0.59%	158
Replication	338	Down 57 places-57	£500	+5.26%	146 0.52%	19
Social Media	340	Up 11 places+11	£373	+30.33%	144 0.51%	124
Life Science	341	Up 4 places+4	£581	+1.04%	143 0.51%	50
Greenfield Project	343	Down 19 places-19	£523	+5.02%	141 0.50%	39
Web Conferencing	350	Up 20 places+20	£376	+90.12%	134 0.48%	39
Analytical Mindset	359	Down 118 places-118	£463	+2.77%	124 0.44%	63
Private Cloud	368	Down 50 places-50	£591	+5.44%	114 0.40%	33
Mainframe	369	Down 31 places-31	£525	+47.88%	113 0.40%	16
EPoS	370	Down 61 places-61	£155	-4.69%	112 0.40%	39
Podcast	371	Up 21 places+21	-	-	111 0.39%	6
Clustering	382	Down 22 places-22	£555	+60.68%	99 0.35%	13
Algorithms	387	Down 138 places-138	£358	-29.55%	94 0.33%	154
Robotics	387	Down 19 places-19	£650	+23.80%	94 0.33%	285
Security Operations Centre	388	Down 71 places-71	£540	-3.39%	93 0.33%	33
Enterprise Cloud	392	Down 9 places-9	£535	+52.85%	89 0.32%	11
Linux Command Line	403	Down 67 places-67	£483	+16.96%	78 0.28%	52
Embedded Systems	407	Down 34 places-34	£488	+9.91%	74 0.26%	184
Low-Code	409	Down 53 places-53	£515	+21.05%	72 0.26%	109
Enterprise Storage	415	Down 37 places-37	£510	+35.86%	66 0.23%	7
Smartphone	417	Down 80 places-80	£225	-10.00%	64 0.23%	36
FMCG	419	Down 64 places-64	£475	-9.95%	62 0.22%	87
Video Conferencing	421	Down 62 places-62	£325	+23.80%	60 0.21%	47
Renewable Energy	422	Down 75 places-75	£550	-8.33%	59 0.21%	80
CCTV	424	Down 50 places-50	£540	+5.36%	57 0.20%	168
IoT	426	Down 100 places-100	£550	-4.34%	55 0.20%	109
Taxonomies	426	Down 54 places-54	£486	+6.75%	55 0.20%	8