Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	62	Up 23 places+23	£495	-1.08%	1,007 3.57%	396
Cloud Native	74	Up 32 places+32	£525	+5.00%	937 3.32%	247
Product Ownership	89	Up 7 places+7	£500	+5.26%	800 2.84%	303
Management Information System	105	No change0	£458	-6.91%	701 2.49%	589
Data Centre	117	Down 20 places-20	£500	+5.26%	635 2.25%	175
Enterprise Software	164	Up 86 places+86	£500	+13.76%	455 1.61%	170
Data Protection Act	166	Down 26 places-26	£425	-5.55%	450 1.60%	19
Operational Technology	210	Up 73 places+73	£550	-	337 1.19%	179
Legacy Systems	215	Down 55 places-55	£525	-	327 1.16%	64
Driving Licence	217	Down 41 places-41	£185	-7.50%	325 1.15%	730
Distributed Systems	220	Up 40 places+40	£511	+7.36%	319 1.13%	97
Self-Motivation	230	Down 46 places-46	£500	+13.05%	299 1.06%	386
AI Agents	242	Up 129 places+129	£513	-8.48%	279 0.99%	142
Data Structures	252	Down 14 places-14	£475	-13.63%	265 0.94%	68
Virtual Team	258	Down 3 places-3	£500	+5.26%	256 0.91%	37
NHS	259	Down 12 places-12	£394	-1.56%	255 0.90%	174
PKI	260	Down 4 places-4	£550	-	252 0.89%	36
CMDB	263	Up 23 places+23	£500	-	249 0.88%	43
Hybrid Cloud	270	Down 17 places-17	£600	+9.09%	238 0.84%	46
Security Posture	288	Down 35 places-35	£541	+4.33%	217 0.77%	146
Mobile App	311	Down 78 places-78	£425	-3.40%	186 0.66%	83
Public Cloud	319	Down 58 places-58	£590	+12.38%	178 0.63%	35
SCADA	326	Down 39 places-39	£563	+12.50%	169 0.60%	229
Cyber Threat	328	Down 24 places-24	£588	-2.08%	167 0.59%	157
Replication	349	Down 67 places-67	£500	+5.26%	144 0.51%	26
Social Media	353	Down 2 places-2	£373	+30.33%	140 0.50%	147
Life Science	356	Down 11 places-11	£581	+1.04%	137 0.49%	45
Greenfield Project	356	Down 27 places-27	£524	+7.43%	137 0.49%	40
Web Conferencing	359	Up 11 places+11	£376	+90.12%	134 0.48%	33
Analytical Mindset	364	Down 122 places-122	£455	+1.00%	129 0.46%	65
Mainframe	377	Down 44 places-44	£527	+47.20%	115 0.41%	12
Podcast	381	Up 11 places+11	-	-	111 0.39%	4
EPoS	383	Down 72 places-72	£155	-4.69%	109 0.39%	38
Private Cloud	385	Down 67 places-67	£581	+4.68%	107 0.38%	35
Clustering	393	Down 30 places-30	£555	+60.10%	99 0.35%	12
Robotics	397	Down 27 places-27	£650	+48.57%	95 0.34%	301
Security Operations Centre	399	Down 80 places-80	£540	-3.48%	93 0.33%	63
Algorithms	401	Down 150 places-150	£361	-28.91%	91 0.32%	157
Enterprise Cloud	402	Down 19 places-19	£525	+50.00%	90 0.32%	16
Linux Command Line	414	Down 73 places-73	£475	+10.78%	78 0.28%	52
Embedded Systems	418	Down 44 places-44	£488	+9.91%	74 0.26%	196
Low-Code	421	Down 62 places-62	£515	+21.17%	71 0.25%	43
Enterprise Storage	425	Down 47 places-47	£500	+33.33%	67 0.24%	10
Smartphone	429	Down 95 places-95	£225	-10.00%	63 0.22%	12
FMCG	430	Down 75 places-75	£475	-10.37%	62 0.22%	83
Video Conferencing	431	Down 71 places-71	£338	+25.93%	61 0.22%	40
CCTV	432	Down 57 places-57	£540	+2.85%	60 0.21%	156
Renewable Energy	432	Down 85 places-85	£550	-8.33%	60 0.21%	88
Taxonomies	437	Down 65 places-65	£484	+6.37%	55 0.20%	11
IoT	438	Down 112 places-112	£550	-4.34%	54 0.19%	122