Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	53	Up 41 places+41	£550	+4.76%	2,352 4.21%	2,380
Onboarding	58	Up 18 places+18	£500	-1.47%	2,260 4.05%	4,270
Product Ownership	77	Up 5 places+5	£526	+2.53%	1,917 3.43%	2,089
Management Information System	130	Up 11 places+11	£500	-4.76%	1,238 2.22%	2,311
Data Centre	134	Up 10 places+10	£525	+5.00%	1,181 2.11%	1,693
Enterprise Software	146	Up 144 places+144	£525	+10.52%	1,129 2.02%	1,627
AI Agents	170	Up 228 places+228	£563	+4.74%	1,007 1.80%	3,089
Distributed Systems	183	Up 47 places+47	£550	+5.76%	927 1.66%	1,597
Legacy Systems	206	Down 35 places-35	£530	+0.95%	821 1.47%	615
Data Protection Act	223	Down 62 places-62	£450	-	715 1.28%	94
Data Structures	226	Up 6 places+6	£519	-3.93%	708 1.27%	729
CMDB	291	Up 59 places+59	£520	-0.95%	524 0.94%	201
Self-Motivation	292	Down 74 places-74	£500	+11.11%	522 0.93%	1,831
NHS	296	Down 2 places-2	£450	+5.88%	517 0.93%	809
Operational Technology	297	Up 72 places+72	£575	+4.54%	513 0.92%	651
Virtual Team	307	Down 27 places-27	£525	+5.00%	498 0.89%	1,012
Security Posture	322	Down 51 places-51	£552	+5.14%	465 0.83%	688
Driving Licence	328	Down 69 places-69	£180	-2.43%	458 0.82%	1,830
Hybrid Cloud	330	Down 8 places-8	£580	+5.45%	454 0.81%	508
Mobile App	338	Down 109 places-109	£476	+0.27%	435 0.78%	744
PKI	349	Down 32 places-32	£554	+0.72%	422 0.76%	230
Public Cloud	374	Down 39 places-39	£600	+9.09%	376 0.67%	496
Replication	398	Down 52 places-52	£537	+4.68%	343 0.61%	262
Greenfield Project	402	Down 110 places-110	£575	+4.54%	335 0.60%	261
Life Science	417	Up 3 places+3	£575	-1.87%	309 0.55%	950
Cyber Threat	435	Down 37 places-37	£575	-0.86%	285 0.51%	632
Analytical Mindset	444	Down 182 places-182	£500	-	274 0.49%	430
Algorithms	444	Down 197 places-197	£650	+18.18%	274 0.49%	1,520
Derivative	461	Down 136 places-136	£700	-6.66%	252 0.45%	245
SCADA	471	Down 57 places-57	£550	+2.61%	242 0.43%	743
Foreign Exchange (FX)	478	Down 200 places-200	£700	-6.66%	235 0.42%	331
Mainframe	482	Down 42 places-42	£535	+29.69%	231 0.41%	106
Taxonomies	488	Up 8 places+8	£530	+6.00%	225 0.40%	185
Fixed Income	497	Down 173 places-173	£725	-3.33%	212 0.38%	231
Private Cloud	498	Down 67 places-67	£586	+1.82%	211 0.38%	229
Social Media	502	Down 38 places-38	£373	-0.66%	207 0.37%	789
Enterprise Cloud	505	Up 23 places+23	£563	+26.76%	204 0.37%	239
Legacy Applications	522	Down 37 places-37	£529	+0.04%	186 0.33%	102
Low-Code	524	Down 85 places-85	£515	+3.00%	184 0.33%	362
Security Operations Centre	527	Down 119 places-119	£550	-4.34%	180 0.32%	233
Clustering	527	Down 46 places-46	£575	+21.05%	180 0.32%	123
Web Conferencing	533	Down 33 places-33	£408	+48.47%	173 0.31%	602
Video Conferencing	535	Down 38 places-38	£300	+9.78%	171 0.31%	241
Equities	539	Down 193 places-193	£755	+0.70%	167 0.30%	249
Marketing Technology	547	Down 33 places-33	£500	+0.40%	158 0.28%	471
FMCG	548	Down 75 places-75	£550	-	157 0.28%	286
Reference Data	552	Down 55 places-55	£525	-12.50%	153 0.27%	177
EPoS	554	Down 107 places-107	£155	-4.69%	150 0.27%	162
IoT	558	Down 114 places-114	£550	+2.32%	146 0.26%	854
Robotics	572	Down 43 places-43	£663	+20.45%	132 0.24%	1,511