Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 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	£495	-1.00%	998 3.51%	1,201
Cloud Native	71	Up 38 places+38	£525	+5.00%	933 3.28%	936
Product Ownership	85	Up 13 places+13	£500	+7.52%	808 2.84%	913
Management Information System	104	Down 1 place-1	£460	-6.50%	691 2.43%	1,027
Data Centre	114	Down 16 places-16	£500	+5.26%	638 2.24%	572
Data Protection Act	159	Down 28 places-28	£425	-5.55%	454 1.60%	34
Enterprise Software	160	Up 76 places+76	£500	+13.76%	449 1.58%	599
Operational Technology	202	Up 62 places+62	£550	-	343 1.21%	403
Legacy Systems	211	Down 54 places-54	£525	-	329 1.16%	204
Driving Licence	215	Down 48 places-48	£190	-5.00%	322 1.13%	1,119
Distributed Systems	216	Up 24 places+24	£510	+3.65%	319 1.12%	445
Self-Motivation	229	Down 52 places-52	£494	+10.39%	294 1.03%	881
AI Agents	232	Up 125 places+125	£525	-6.25%	285 1.00%	678
Data Structures	240	Down 16 places-16	£475	-13.63%	271 0.95%	230
Virtual Team	248	Down 7 places-7	£500	+4.16%	258 0.91%	254
PKI	249	Down 6 places-6	£550	+1.85%	256 0.90%	106
NHS	252	Down 16 places-16	£394	-1.56%	253 0.89%	333
CMDB	256	Up 12 places+12	£500	-4.76%	247 0.87%	83
Hybrid Cloud	262	Down 22 places-22	£600	+9.09%	238 0.84%	250
Security Posture	278	Down 40 places-40	£525	-2.32%	219 0.77%	287
Mobile App	298	Down 82 places-82	£425	-4.49%	194 0.68%	239
Public Cloud	313	Down 66 places-66	£590	+12.38%	176 0.62%	170
SCADA	316	Down 51 places-51	£550	+10.00%	173 0.61%	521
Cyber Threat	323	Down 32 places-32	£588	-2.08%	165 0.58%	241
Replication	337	Down 68 places-68	£497	+4.58%	149 0.52%	79
Social Media	344	Down 8 places-8	£373	+1.24%	141 0.50%	271
Greenfield Project	348	Down 33 places-33	£524	+7.43%	137 0.48%	105
Web Conferencing	350	Up 8 places+8	£376	+75.05%	135 0.47%	152
Life Science	351	Down 21 places-21	£581	+0.60%	134 0.47%	282
Analytical Mindset	356	Down 127 places-127	£461	+2.38%	128 0.45%	145
Podcast	372	Up 6 places+6	-	-	111 0.39%	10
EPoS	374	Down 77 places-77	£155	-4.69%	109 0.38%	61
Mainframe	374	Down 59 places-59	£525	+45.83%	109 0.38%	41
Private Cloud	377	Down 69 places-69	£578	+3.21%	106 0.37%	122
Clustering	380	Down 30 places-30	£550	+38.97%	103 0.36%	40
Robotics	388	Down 32 places-32	£650	+48.57%	95 0.33%	719
Algorithms	390	Down 156 places-156	£374	-26.25%	93 0.33%	525
Security Operations Centre	393	Down 86 places-86	£550	-1.78%	90 0.32%	86
Enterprise Cloud	397	Down 28 places-28	£522	+49.16%	86 0.30%	74
Linux Command Line	403	Down 69 places-69	£470	+3.52%	80 0.28%	101
Embedded Systems	407	Down 47 places-47	£476	+7.15%	76 0.27%	494
Low-Code	411	Down 66 places-66	£510	+20.00%	72 0.25%	120
Enterprise Storage	418	Down 54 places-54	£500	+33.33%	65 0.23%	34
FMCG	420	Down 79 places-79	£475	-9.52%	63 0.22%	156
Video Conferencing	422	Down 75 places-75	£338	+25.93%	61 0.21%	72
Smartphone	422	Down 102 places-102	£225	-10.00%	61 0.21%	67
CCTV	423	Down 61 places-61	£540	+0.46%	60 0.21%	274
Renewable Energy	425	Down 92 places-92	£550	-8.33%	58 0.20%	214
Taxonomies	427	Down 64 places-64	£484	+1.89%	56 0.20%	34
IoT	429	Down 118 places-118	£550	-2.22%	54 0.19%	405