Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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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
Cloud Native	53	Up 39 places+39	£550	+4.76%	2,322 4.21%	2,391
Onboarding	57	Up 21 places+21	£501	+0.10%	2,238 4.05%	4,262
Product Ownership	79	Up 3 places+3	£530	+3.41%	1,891 3.42%	2,092
Management Information System	128	Up 15 places+15	£500	-4.76%	1,237 2.24%	2,321
Data Centre	135	Up 9 places+9	£525	+5.00%	1,160 2.10%	1,687
Enterprise Software	146	Up 158 places+158	£525	+10.52%	1,116 2.02%	1,632
AI Agents	170	Up 248 places+248	£575	+7.07%	1,004 1.82%	3,111
Distributed Systems	187	Up 58 places+58	£550	+4.76%	912 1.65%	1,597
Legacy Systems	209	Down 30 places-30	£530	+0.95%	811 1.47%	618
Data Protection Act	229	Down 64 places-64	£456	+1.38%	703 1.27%	90
Data Structures	231	Up 17 places+17	£510	-3.77%	694 1.26%	736
CMDB	291	Up 79 places+79	£520	-0.95%	520 0.94%	200
Self-Motivation	295	Down 62 places-62	£500	+11.11%	515 0.93%	1,823
NHS	299	Up 13 places+13	£450	+5.88%	508 0.92%	791
Operational Technology	300	Up 86 places+86	£575	+4.54%	505 0.91%	650
Virtual Team	307	Down 9 places-9	£525	+5.00%	495 0.90%	1,017
Security Posture	323	Down 33 places-33	£563	+8.17%	458 0.83%	688
Driving Licence	325	Down 49 places-49	£180	-2.70%	455 0.82%	1,843
Hybrid Cloud	329	Up 9 places+9	£580	+5.45%	449 0.81%	512
Mobile App	335	Down 93 places-93	£478	+0.54%	435 0.79%	749
PKI	347	Down 18 places-18	£550	-	415 0.75%	231
Public Cloud	374	Down 20 places-20	£600	+9.09%	372 0.67%	492
Replication	396	Down 33 places-33	£538	+4.97%	340 0.62%	261
Greenfield Project	400	Down 90 places-90	£575	+4.54%	328 0.59%	263
Life Science	420	Up 22 places+22	£575	-2.87%	300 0.54%	959
Cyber Threat	434	Down 15 places-15	£575	-0.86%	283 0.51%	638
Analytical Mindset	442	Down 163 places-163	£513	+2.50%	273 0.49%	428
Algorithms	444	Down 178 places-178	£650	+18.18%	270 0.49%	1,537
Derivative	461	Down 124 places-124	£700	-6.66%	247 0.45%	244
SCADA	467	Down 32 places-32	£560	+3.70%	239 0.43%	740
Foreign Exchange (FX)	473	Down 181 places-181	£700	-6.66%	233 0.42%	333
Mainframe	475	Down 17 places-17	£535	+29.69%	231 0.42%	108
Taxonomies	479	Up 38 places+38	£530	+6.00%	226 0.41%	181
Private Cloud	490	Down 36 places-36	£586	+1.82%	211 0.38%	228
Fixed Income	493	Down 155 places-155	£725	-3.33%	208 0.38%	235
Social Media	496	Down 11 places-11	£373	-0.66%	205 0.37%	787
Enterprise Cloud	501	Up 48 places+48	£563	+26.76%	200 0.36%	237
Legacy Applications	516	Down 8 places-8	£529	-2.48%	185 0.34%	102
Low-Code	519	Down 56 places-56	£515	+2.90%	182 0.33%	364
Clustering	522	Down 19 places-19	£575	+21.05%	179 0.32%	122
Security Operations Centre	526	Down 90 places-90	£550	-1.78%	175 0.32%	240
Web Conferencing	529	Down 2 places-2	£408	+51.22%	172 0.31%	599
Video Conferencing	531	Down 13 places-13	£301	+9.87%	170 0.31%	243
Equities	537	Down 175 places-175	£756	+0.73%	162 0.29%	255
Marketing Technology	541	Down 6 places-6	£500	+0.40%	157 0.28%	470
FMCG	544	Down 52 places-52	£550	+2.32%	154 0.28%	287
Reference Data	548	Down 30 places-30	£525	-12.50%	150 0.27%	178
EPoS	548	Down 80 places-80	£155	-4.69%	150 0.27%	165
IoT	552	Down 88 places-88	£550	+4.76%	146 0.26%	859
Robotics	565	Down 14 places-14	£663	+20.45%	132 0.24%	1,511