Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	63	Up 20 places+20	£493	-1.50%	1,000 3.53%	1,175
Cloud Native	74	Up 34 places+34	£525	+5.00%	937 3.30%	921
Product Ownership	88	Up 8 places+8	£500	+5.26%	808 2.85%	935
Management Information System	105	Up 1 place+1	£458	-5.27%	695 2.45%	1,179
Data Centre	115	Down 16 places-16	£500	+5.26%	637 2.25%	575
Enterprise Software	160	Up 81 places+81	£500	+13.76%	451 1.59%	598
Data Protection Act	161	Down 23 places-23	£425	-5.55%	447 1.58%	36
Operational Technology	203	Up 68 places+68	£550	-	341 1.20%	428
Legacy Systems	211	Down 54 places-54	£525	-	326 1.15%	195
Driving Licence	215	Down 42 places-42	£190	-5.00%	322 1.14%	1,112
Distributed Systems	218	Up 30 places+30	£510	+7.14%	318 1.12%	429
Self-Motivation	228	Down 50 places-50	£500	+13.05%	298 1.05%	878
AI Agents	239	Up 124 places+124	£513	-8.48%	279 0.98%	673
Data Structures	248	Down 16 places-16	£475	-13.63%	264 0.93%	229
PKI	253	Down 6 places-6	£550	-	256 0.90%	107
Virtual Team	254	Down 9 places-9	£500	+5.26%	255 0.90%	248
NHS	255	Down 13 places-13	£400	-	253 0.89%	339
CMDB	258	Up 17 places+17	£500	-	250 0.88%	87
Hybrid Cloud	264	Down 18 places-18	£600	+9.09%	239 0.84%	249
Security Posture	278	Down 35 places-35	£533	+1.42%	218 0.77%	349
Mobile App	301	Down 76 places-76	£425	-4.49%	191 0.67%	239
Public Cloud	315	Down 64 places-64	£590	+12.38%	176 0.62%	168
SCADA	319	Down 44 places-44	£563	+12.50%	170 0.60%	507
Cyber Threat	323	Down 26 places-26	£588	-2.08%	166 0.59%	262
Replication	344	Down 71 places-71	£500	+5.26%	145 0.51%	77
Social Media	349	Down 6 places-6	£373	+30.33%	140 0.49%	279
Greenfield Project	352	Down 31 places-31	£524	+7.43%	137 0.48%	104
Life Science	354	Down 17 places-17	£581	+1.04%	135 0.48%	276
Web Conferencing	355	Up 9 places+9	£376	+75.05%	134 0.47%	149
Analytical Mindset	360	Down 126 places-126	£455	+1.00%	128 0.45%	143
Mainframe	374	Down 49 places-49	£525	+46.64%	114 0.40%	41
Podcast	377	Up 7 places+7	-	-	111 0.39%	10
EPoS	380	Down 77 places-77	£155	-4.69%	108 0.38%	57
Private Cloud	381	Down 71 places-71	£581	+4.68%	107 0.38%	120
Clustering	389	Down 33 places-33	£550	+38.97%	99 0.35%	40
Robotics	392	Down 30 places-30	£650	+48.57%	96 0.34%	716
Algorithms	395	Down 153 places-153	£364	-28.27%	93 0.33%	521
Security Operations Centre	395	Down 83 places-83	£540	-3.57%	93 0.33%	115
Enterprise Cloud	400	Down 25 places-25	£530	+51.42%	88 0.31%	76
Linux Command Line	410	Down 77 places-77	£475	+10.78%	78 0.28%	105
Embedded Systems	412	Down 46 places-46	£476	+7.15%	76 0.27%	483
Low-Code	416	Down 65 places-65	£515	+21.05%	72 0.25%	117
Enterprise Storage	421	Down 51 places-51	£500	+33.33%	67 0.24%	32
FMCG	425	Down 77 places-77	£475	-9.95%	63 0.22%	157
Smartphone	425	Down 99 places-99	£225	-10.00%	63 0.22%	64
Video Conferencing	427	Down 75 places-75	£338	+25.93%	61 0.22%	74
CCTV	427	Down 60 places-60	£540	+2.85%	61 0.22%	267
Renewable Energy	429	Down 90 places-90	£550	-8.33%	59 0.21%	219
Taxonomies	432	Down 67 places-67	£484	+6.37%	56 0.20%	30
IoT	433	Down 116 places-116	£550	-2.22%	55 0.19%	399