Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	63	Up 15 places+15	£492	-1.60%	1,027 3.59%	1,424
Cloud Native	72	Up 35 places+35	£525	+5.00%	957 3.35%	933
Product Ownership	92	Up 3 places+3	£500	+4.16%	778 2.72%	911
Management Information System	97	Up 6 places+6	£461	-0.27%	746 2.61%	1,105
Data Centre	117	Down 11 places-11	£507	+6.73%	611 2.14%	700
Enterprise Software	147	Up 97 places+97	£500	+11.11%	501 1.75%	574
Data Protection Act	167	Down 29 places-29	£425	-5.55%	436 1.52%	46
Driving Licence	203	Down 41 places-41	£190	-	350 1.22%	1,468
Distributed Systems	207	Up 46 places+46	£506	+1.86%	339 1.19%	481
Legacy Systems	217	Down 51 places-51	£525	-	320 1.12%	273
Operational Technology	218	Up 44 places+44	£550	-	318 1.11%	387
AI Agents	226	Up 141 places+141	£513	-8.48%	303 1.06%	799
Self-Motivation	231	Down 43 places-43	£500	+17.64%	294 1.03%	959
NHS	237	Down 20 places-20	£400	-	284 0.99%	448
Data Structures	241	Down 3 places-3	£477	-12.00%	273 0.95%	259
Virtual Team	247	Down 6 places-6	£500	+5.26%	262 0.92%	248
CMDB	249	Up 23 places+23	£500	+5.26%	258 0.90%	108
PKI	257	Down 18 places-18	£550	-	247 0.86%	114
Hybrid Cloud	261	Down 18 places-18	£598	+8.63%	241 0.84%	238
Security Posture	285	Down 53 places-53	£525	+5.00%	207 0.72%	299
Mobile App	301	Down 91 places-91	£416	-2.05%	187 0.65%	252
Public Cloud	301	Down 44 places-44	£600	+14.28%	187 0.65%	186
Cyber Threat	315	Down 14 places-14	£575	-4.16%	173 0.60%	412
SCADA	331	Down 44 places-44	£550	+2.42%	154 0.54%	543
Social Media	333	Up 15 places+15	£373	-17.22%	152 0.53%	310
Life Science	335	Up 9 places+9	£600	+3.89%	150 0.52%	355
Replication	341	Down 72 places-72	£500	+5.26%	144 0.50%	109
Greenfield Project	351	Down 29 places-29	£525	+5.00%	133 0.47%	109
Web Conferencing	351	Up 17 places+17	£376	+82.28%	133 0.47%	173
Private Cloud	361	Down 44 places-44	£581	+4.68%	120 0.42%	108
Analytical Mindset	363	Down 133 places-133	£463	+2.77%	118 0.41%	170
Mainframe	370	Down 42 places-42	£550	+56.02%	111 0.39%	45
Podcast	370	Up 20 places+20	-	-	111 0.39%	31
EPoS	374	Down 80 places-80	£155	-4.69%	107 0.37%	105
Clustering	385	Down 26 places-26	£578	+46.05%	96 0.34%	59
Algorithms	386	Down 139 places-139	£325	-35.96%	95 0.33%	562
Enterprise Cloud	388	Down 12 places-12	£519	+42.21%	93 0.33%	88
Robotics	388	Down 22 places-22	£650	+30.00%	93 0.33%	923
Security Operations Centre	393	Down 83 places-83	£545	-2.50%	88 0.31%	134
Embedded Systems	399	Down 32 places-32	£488	+9.91%	82 0.29%	491
Video Conferencing	404	Down 46 places-46	£448	+70.96%	77 0.27%	104
Low-Code	408	Down 55 places-55	£512	+28.00%	73 0.26%	134
Enterprise Storage	408	Down 30 places-30	£525	+40.00%	73 0.26%	32
CCTV	410	Down 41 places-41	£465	-5.82%	71 0.25%	313
Linux Command Line	411	Down 78 places-78	£483	+20.62%	70 0.24%	124
Renewable Energy	421	Down 76 places-76	£550	-8.33%	60 0.21%	224
FMCG	422	Down 78 places-78	£500	-5.21%	59 0.21%	186
Smartphone	422	Down 84 places-84	£225	-10.00%	59 0.21%	94
Reference Data	423	Down 47 places-47	£442	-11.55%	58 0.20%	64
Freedom of Information	424	Down 65 places-65	£275	-35.29%	57 0.20%	13