Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	54	Up 41 places+41	£550	+4.76%	2,294 4.16%	637
Onboarding	56	Up 22 places+22	£500	-3.14%	2,233 4.05%	4,735
Product Ownership	77	Up 8 places+8	£525	+2.43%	1,900 3.44%	569
Management Information System	127	Up 17 places+17	£500	-6.89%	1,229 2.23%	815
Data Centre	131	Up 11 places+11	£525	+5.00%	1,174 2.13%	444
Enterprise Software	150	Up 144 places+144	£525	+14.00%	1,068 1.94%	445
AI Agents	172	Up 247 places+247	£560	+3.46%	977 1.77%	639
Distributed Systems	180	Up 60 places+60	£550	+7.84%	912 1.65%	341
Legacy Systems	201	Down 25 places-25	£530	+0.95%	819 1.48%	168
Data Protection Act	221	Down 57 places-57	£450	-5.26%	724 1.31%	29
Data Structures	228	Up 14 places+14	£509	-7.45%	677 1.23%	188
Self-Motivation	275	Down 43 places-43	£500	+11.11%	527 0.96%	564
CMDB	279	Up 88 places+88	£519	-1.19%	521 0.94%	57
Operational Technology	287	Up 97 places+97	£575	+7.27%	507 0.92%	274
Virtual Team	292	Down 11 places-11	£525	+5.00%	499 0.90%	150
NHS	293	Up 14 places+14	£450	-	498 0.90%	347
Security Posture	310	Down 29 places-29	£563	+7.14%	457 0.83%	214
Hybrid Cloud	318	Up 18 places+18	£588	+6.81%	441 0.80%	120
Driving Licence	319	Down 44 places-44	£180	-5.26%	439 0.80%	977
Mobile App	331	Down 83 places-83	£495	-1.00%	418 0.76%	271
PKI	340	Down 1 place-1	£552	+0.36%	406 0.74%	93
Public Cloud	368	Down 21 places-21	£600	+9.09%	364 0.66%	117
Greenfield Project	385	Down 90 places-90	£575	+4.54%	338 0.61%	130
Replication	394	Down 30 places-30	£529	+5.80%	327 0.59%	78
Life Science	412	Up 20 places+20	£575	-0.86%	301 0.55%	180
Algorithms	431	Down 174 places-174	£650	+18.18%	279 0.51%	345
Cyber Threat	431	Down 21 places-21	£581	+0.64%	279 0.51%	310
Analytical Mindset	432	Down 155 places-155	£500	-	278 0.50%	116
Derivative	457	Down 127 places-127	£700	-6.66%	250 0.45%	56
SCADA	460	Down 42 places-42	£561	+4.71%	245 0.44%	303
Foreign Exchange (FX)	465	Down 187 places-187	£700	-6.66%	240 0.44%	81
Mainframe	480	Down 19 places-19	£533	+29.09%	224 0.41%	43
Taxonomies	485	Up 25 places+25	£530	+6.00%	219 0.40%	43
Fixed Income	489	Down 165 places-165	£725	-3.33%	212 0.38%	67
Social Media	495	Down 24 places-24	£349	-7.00%	206 0.37%	169
Private Cloud	495	Down 53 places-53	£586	+1.82%	206 0.37%	57
Enterprise Cloud	499	Up 36 places+36	£575	+27.77%	201 0.36%	51
Low-Code	514	Down 60 places-60	£515	+3.00%	184 0.33%	88
Security Operations Centre	518	Down 97 places-97	£550	-4.34%	180 0.33%	93
Legacy Applications	521	Down 31 places-31	£529	-3.15%	177 0.32%	32
Clustering	526	Down 37 places-37	£575	+21.05%	172 0.31%	28
Web Conferencing	526	Down 14 places-14	£400	+45.45%	172 0.31%	85
Equities	531	Down 180 places-180	£755	+0.70%	167 0.30%	58
FMCG	540	Down 52 places-52	£550	+2.80%	157 0.28%	123
Marketing Technology	544	Down 16 places-16	£500	+0.80%	153 0.28%	94
Video Conferencing	544	Down 39 places-39	£245	-10.42%	153 0.28%	101
EPoS	545	Down 84 places-84	£155	-4.69%	152 0.28%	55
Reference Data	551	Down 46 places-46	£538	-10.41%	146 0.26%	51
IoT	552	Down 95 places-95	£550	-	145 0.26%	225
Linux Command Line	566	Down 100 places-100	£525	-5.82%	131 0.24%	71