Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	63	Up 22 places+22	£492	-1.60%	1,032 3.59%	1,126
Cloud Native	74	Up 36 places+36	£525	+5.00%	954 3.32%	854
Product Ownership	91	Up 6 places+6	£500	+5.26%	794 2.76%	847
Management Information System	99	Up 4 places+4	£453	-4.63%	751 2.61%	934
Data Centre	118	Down 11 places-11	£500	+5.26%	628 2.18%	599
Enterprise Software	149	Up 100 places+100	£500	+11.11%	506 1.76%	516
Data Protection Act	165	Down 23 places-23	£425	-5.55%	440 1.53%	48
Driving Licence	203	Down 36 places-36	£190	-	347 1.21%	1,060
Distributed Systems	209	Up 53 places+53	£500	+1.57%	335 1.16%	458
Operational Technology	215	Up 60 places+60	£550	-	327 1.14%	351
Legacy Systems	217	Down 50 places-50	£525	-	324 1.13%	247
Self-Motivation	226	Down 32 places-32	£500	+17.64%	303 1.05%	794
AI Agents	228	Up 149 places+149	£513	-10.86%	299 1.04%	721
NHS	238	Down 8 places-8	£394	-1.56%	280 0.97%	361
Data Structures	243	Up 5 places+5	£475	-12.53%	273 0.95%	219
Virtual Team	248	Down 1 place-1	£500	+5.26%	265 0.92%	245
CMDB	253	Up 28 places+28	£500	-	256 0.89%	96
PKI	259	Down 5 places-5	£550	-	250 0.87%	97
Hybrid Cloud	265	Down 11 places-11	£596	+8.40%	242 0.84%	208
Security Posture	285	Down 42 places-42	£525	+2.43%	215 0.75%	258
Public Cloud	304	Down 38 places-38	£590	+12.38%	190 0.66%	182
Mobile App	310	Down 83 places-83	£420	-1.17%	184 0.64%	232
Cyber Threat	320	Down 11 places-11	£575	-4.16%	174 0.60%	376
SCADA	332	Down 39 places-39	£550	+7.31%	162 0.56%	456
Social Media	340	Up 16 places+16	£373	-17.22%	154 0.54%	234
Life Science	345	Up 9 places+9	£591	+1.81%	149 0.52%	311
Replication	347	Down 70 places-70	£500	+5.26%	147 0.51%	92
Greenfield Project	361	Down 31 places-31	£525	+5.00%	133 0.46%	93
Web Conferencing	361	Up 12 places+12	£376	+82.28%	133 0.46%	123
Analytical Mindset	372	Down 128 places-128	£463	+2.77%	119 0.41%	130
Private Cloud	375	Down 51 places-51	£581	+4.68%	116 0.40%	95
Podcast	380	Up 18 places+18	-	-	111 0.39%	17
Mainframe	381	Down 38 places-38	£550	+54.92%	110 0.38%	33
EPoS	383	Down 84 places-84	£155	-4.69%	108 0.38%	68
Algorithms	393	Down 140 places-140	£328	-35.36%	98 0.34%	499
Clustering	394	Down 29 places-29	£581	+30.26%	97 0.34%	52
Enterprise Cloud	396	Down 12 places-12	£530	+45.20%	95 0.33%	84
Robotics	398	Down 25 places-25	£650	+30.00%	93 0.32%	762
Security Operations Centre	399	Down 79 places-79	£540	-3.48%	92 0.32%	105
Embedded Systems	410	Down 32 places-32	£488	+9.91%	81 0.28%	445
Linux Command Line	416	Down 74 places-74	£475	+15.15%	75 0.26%	110
Low-Code	417	Down 58 places-58	£515	+24.72%	74 0.26%	124
Enterprise Storage	419	Down 33 places-33	£525	+40.00%	72 0.25%	28
CCTV	420	Down 41 places-41	£465	-9.26%	71 0.25%	222
Video Conferencing	423	Down 57 places-57	£375	+43.26%	68 0.24%	74
FMCG	429	Down 72 places-72	£500	-5.66%	62 0.22%	158
Renewable Energy	430	Down 76 places-76	£550	-8.33%	61 0.21%	186
Smartphone	432	Down 86 places-86	£225	-10.00%	59 0.21%	59
Freedom of Information	434	Down 66 places-66	£275	-35.67%	57 0.20%	10
Reference Data	435	Down 51 places-51	£438	-12.50%	56 0.19%	66