Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	52	Up 42 places+42	£550	+4.76%	2,271 4.12%	2,517
Onboarding	55	Up 23 places+23	£500	-4.76%	2,176 3.95%	3,606
Product Ownership	77	Up 10 places+10	£525	+2.94%	1,856 3.37%	2,056
Data Centre	126	Up 5 places+5	£525	+5.00%	1,200 2.18%	1,548
Management Information System	130	Up 7 places+7	£497	-5.38%	1,163 2.11%	2,232
Enterprise Software	158	Up 134 places+134	£525	+10.52%	998 1.81%	1,596
AI Agents	171	Up 246 places+246	£569	+8.33%	921 1.67%	2,744
Distributed Systems	181	Up 46 places+46	£550	+6.58%	888 1.61%	1,434
Legacy Systems	194	Down 21 places-21	£530	+0.95%	827 1.50%	497
Data Protection Act	215	Down 53 places-53	£438	-7.89%	714 1.30%	80
Data Structures	227	Up 5 places+5	£509	-7.45%	664 1.21%	639
Operational Technology	277	Up 101 places+101	£575	+4.54%	526 0.95%	718
Self-Motivation	280	Down 54 places-54	£500	+11.11%	519 0.94%	1,596
CMDB	288	Up 65 places+65	£520	-1.88%	502 0.91%	205
Virtual Team	293	Down 20 places-20	£525	+5.00%	493 0.89%	941
Security Posture	308	Down 29 places-29	£557	+6.14%	468 0.85%	731
NHS	311	Up 7 places+7	£450	+5.88%	464 0.84%	649
Hybrid Cloud	325	Down 6 places-6	£588	+6.81%	428 0.78%	523
Mobile App	329	Down 91 places-91	£484	-1.26%	422 0.77%	685
Driving Licence	330	Down 50 places-50	£180	-10.00%	421 0.76%	1,426
PKI	342	Down 5 places-5	£550	-	405 0.74%	239
Greenfield Project	379	Down 98 places-98	£575	+4.54%	348 0.63%	242
Public Cloud	382	Down 52 places-52	£600	+11.73%	345 0.63%	457
Replication	394	Down 44 places-44	£529	+8.41%	327 0.59%	194
Analytical Mindset	421	Down 149 places-149	£500	+1.01%	288 0.52%	392
Algorithms	429	Down 181 places-181	£650	+18.18%	278 0.50%	1,356
Life Science	432	Down 26 places-26	£552	-4.00%	274 0.50%	757
Cyber Threat	433	Down 40 places-40	£588	+1.29%	273 0.50%	466
Derivative	446	Down 140 places-140	£700	-6.66%	256 0.46%	235
SCADA	452	Down 53 places-53	£563	+4.99%	249 0.45%	723
Foreign Exchange (FX)	457	Down 191 places-191	£700	-6.66%	241 0.44%	306
Mainframe	466	Down 26 places-26	£535	+30.88%	230 0.42%	105
Taxonomies	475	Up 21 places+21	£530	+6.00%	220 0.40%	138
Fixed Income	481	Down 181 places-181	£725	-3.33%	214 0.39%	199
Social Media	491	Down 32 places-32	£373	-9.14%	201 0.36%	670
Private Cloud	496	Down 73 places-73	£586	+1.82%	194 0.35%	235
Enterprise Cloud	499	Up 22 places+22	£563	+18.42%	191 0.35%	211
Low-Code	501	Down 65 places-65	£510	-	189 0.34%	309
Equities	510	Down 176 places-176	£755	+0.66%	179 0.32%	227
Clustering	513	Down 38 places-38	£571	+20.10%	175 0.32%	102
Web Conferencing	514	Down 19 places-19	£400	+38.88%	174 0.32%	484
Legacy Applications	519	Down 47 places-47	£527	-5.89%	168 0.30%	85
FMCG	521	Down 54 places-54	£550	+1.14%	166 0.30%	255
Security Operations Centre	522	Down 112 places-112	£550	-4.34%	165 0.30%	206
EPoS	534	Down 81 places-81	£155	-4.69%	152 0.28%	95
Video Conferencing	535	Down 50 places-50	£298	+8.77%	151 0.27%	198
IoT	539	Down 100 places-100	£550	-	147 0.27%	786
Marketing Technology	541	Down 29 places-29	£500	+0.80%	145 0.26%	368
Reference Data	552	Down 65 places-65	£550	-8.33%	134 0.24%	136
Linux Command Line	555	Down 108 places-108	£509	-11.52%	131 0.24%	192