Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	62	Up 21 places+21	£492	-1.60%	1,027 3.63%	612
Cloud Native	73	Up 38 places+38	£525	+5.00%	920 3.25%	378
Product Ownership	87	Up 10 places+10	£500	+5.26%	798 2.82%	373
Management Information System	96	Up 11 places+11	£453	-4.63%	738 2.61%	782
Data Centre	114	Down 13 places-13	£500	+5.26%	616 2.18%	244
Enterprise Software	152	Up 95 places+95	£500	+11.85%	476 1.68%	248
Data Protection Act	162	Down 23 places-23	£425	-5.55%	448 1.58%	21
Driving Licence	209	Down 37 places-37	£180	-10.00%	330 1.17%	858
Operational Technology	210	Up 65 places+65	£550	-	329 1.16%	287
Legacy Systems	216	Down 56 places-56	£525	-	320 1.13%	105
Distributed Systems	217	Up 41 places+41	£506	+2.74%	319 1.13%	157
Self-Motivation	226	Down 39 places-39	£497	+13.48%	300 1.06%	417
AI Agents	228	Up 142 places+142	£513	-8.48%	293 1.04%	278
NHS	236	Up 3 places+3	£400	-2.43%	274 0.97%	195
Data Structures	243	Down 2 places-2	£475	-13.63%	264 0.93%	103
Virtual Team	244	Up 4 places+4	£500	+5.26%	261 0.92%	48
CMDB	247	Up 31 places+31	£500	-	257 0.91%	50
PKI	250	Up 7 places+7	£550	-	252 0.89%	67
Hybrid Cloud	258	Down 8 places-8	£595	+8.18%	234 0.83%	67
Security Posture	276	Down 29 places-29	£525	+1.94%	210 0.74%	249
Public Cloud	296	Down 34 places-34	£600	+14.28%	186 0.66%	58
Mobile App	299	Down 72 places-72	£425	-	181 0.64%	241
Cyber Threat	307	Down 3 places-3	£581	-3.12%	170 0.60%	200
SCADA	310	Down 28 places-28	£563	+12.50%	167 0.59%	240
Replication	328	Down 51 places-51	£500	+5.26%	147 0.52%	39
Social Media	330	Up 17 places+17	£373	+30.33%	145 0.51%	143
Life Science	330	Up 15 places+15	£581	+0.60%	145 0.51%	93
Greenfield Project	336	Down 13 places-13	£521	+4.25%	138 0.49%	100
Web Conferencing	340	Up 28 places+28	£376	+90.12%	134 0.47%	47
Analytical Mindset	355	Down 113 places-113	£463	+2.77%	118 0.42%	70
Private Cloud	358	Down 41 places-41	£600	+7.14%	115 0.41%	43
Mainframe	360	Down 23 places-23	£525	+47.88%	113 0.40%	23
Podcast	362	Up 29 places+29	-	-	111 0.39%	6
EPoS	362	Down 59 places-59	£155	-4.69%	111 0.39%	58
Algorithms	376	Down 127 places-127	£344	-32.16%	97 0.34%	241
Clustering	377	Down 20 places-20	£567	+43.33%	96 0.34%	17
Security Operations Centre	380	Down 67 places-67	£545	-2.67%	93 0.33%	99
Enterprise Cloud	381	Down 4 places-4	£535	+46.57%	92 0.33%	24
Robotics	381	Down 14 places-14	£650	+23.80%	92 0.33%	302
Linux Command Line	395	Down 60 places-60	£483	+18.76%	78 0.28%	55
Embedded Systems	398	Down 26 places-26	£488	+9.91%	75 0.27%	198
Low-Code	400	Down 46 places-46	£514	+24.60%	73 0.26%	142
Enterprise Storage	406	Down 29 places-29	£519	+38.40%	67 0.24%	22
Smartphone	411	Down 75 places-75	£225	-10.00%	62 0.22%	14
FMCG	412	Down 59 places-59	£488	-7.14%	61 0.22%	95
Video Conferencing	413	Down 55 places-55	£338	+28.57%	60 0.21%	68
Renewable Energy	413	Down 67 places-67	£550	-8.33%	60 0.21%	83
CCTV	414	Down 41 places-41	£540	+5.36%	59 0.21%	230
IoT	418	Down 95 places-95	£525	-4.54%	55 0.19%	130
Taxonomies	418	Down 47 places-47	£486	+6.75%	55 0.19%	12