Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	53	Up 42 places+42	£550	+4.76%	2,258 4.14%	402
Onboarding	55	Up 23 places+23	£500	-4.76%	2,211 4.06%	571
Product Ownership	77	Up 9 places+9	£525	+2.68%	1,867 3.43%	383
Management Information System	126	Up 17 places+17	£500	-4.76%	1,205 2.21%	727
Data Centre	129	Up 8 places+8	£525	+5.00%	1,174 2.15%	280
Enterprise Software	151	Up 151 places+151	£525	+10.52%	1,042 1.91%	271
AI Agents	172	Up 243 places+243	£560	+4.18%	948 1.74%	317
Distributed Systems	179	Up 58 places+58	£550	+7.42%	897 1.65%	166
Legacy Systems	199	Down 24 places-24	£530	+0.95%	815 1.50%	97
Data Protection Act	218	Down 56 places-56	£450	-2.17%	713 1.31%	22
Data Structures	229	Up 12 places+12	£519	-5.68%	661 1.21%	90
Self-Motivation	283	Down 51 places-51	£500	+11.11%	522 0.96%	392
CMDB	287	Up 72 places+72	£520	-0.95%	513 0.94%	74
Operational Technology	289	Up 93 places+93	£575	+7.27%	508 0.93%	286
Virtual Team	295	Down 8 places-8	£525	+5.00%	496 0.91%	65
NHS	300	Up 15 places+15	£450	+1.92%	486 0.89%	236
Security Posture	314	Down 24 places-24	£550	+5.26%	461 0.85%	236
Hybrid Cloud	325	Up 4 places+4	£575	+4.54%	434 0.80%	67
Driving Licence	329	Down 48 places-48	£180	-10.00%	426 0.78%	801
Mobile App	334	Down 87 places-87	£476	-4.26%	413 0.76%	109
PKI	348	Down 6 places-6	£556	+1.04%	396 0.73%	71
Public Cloud	369	Down 25 places-25	£600	+11.11%	361 0.66%	70
Greenfield Project	382	Down 87 places-87	£575	+4.54%	344 0.63%	89
Replication	392	Down 35 places-35	£528	+5.60%	328 0.60%	40
Life Science	425	Down 6 places-6	£575	-	282 0.52%	68
Cyber Threat	430	Down 24 places-24	£575	-0.86%	277 0.51%	183
Analytical Mindset	430	Down 151 places-151	£500	-	277 0.51%	81
Algorithms	432	Down 178 places-178	£650	+18.18%	274 0.50%	205
SCADA	451	Down 39 places-39	£563	+6.03%	249 0.46%	252
Derivative	451	Down 128 places-128	£700	-6.66%	249 0.46%	23
Foreign Exchange (FX)	462	Down 182 places-182	£700	-6.66%	236 0.43%	27
Mainframe	471	Down 15 places-15	£532	+28.96%	226 0.41%	28
Taxonomies	478	Up 27 places+27	£530	+6.00%	217 0.40%	13
Fixed Income	484	Down 164 places-164	£725	-3.33%	211 0.39%	18
Social Media	490	Down 27 places-27	£349	-7.00%	205 0.38%	153
Private Cloud	490	Down 55 places-55	£590	+2.60%	205 0.38%	39
Enterprise Cloud	501	Up 32 places+32	£575	+27.77%	194 0.36%	20
Low-Code	514	Down 66 places-66	£513	+2.50%	180 0.33%	106
Legacy Applications	518	Down 34 places-34	£529	-3.81%	175 0.32%	17
Equities	519	Down 170 places-170	£755	+0.66%	174 0.32%	11
Security Operations Centre	520	Down 108 places-108	£550	-4.34%	173 0.32%	82
Web Conferencing	521	Down 15 places-15	£400	+45.45%	172 0.32%	63
Clustering	521	Down 40 places-40	£575	+21.05%	172 0.32%	19
FMCG	535	Down 56 places-56	£550	+3.28%	158 0.29%	109
EPoS	537	Down 83 places-83	£155	-4.69%	156 0.29%	40
Marketing Technology	541	Down 20 places-20	£500	+0.80%	151 0.28%	79
Video Conferencing	543	Down 48 places-48	£274	+0.09%	149 0.27%	74
IoT	547	Down 100 places-100	£550	-	145 0.27%	127
Reference Data	550	Down 56 places-56	£550	-8.33%	142 0.26%	22
Linux Command Line	561	Down 104 places-104	£518	-10.00%	131 0.24%	58