Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 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%	2,259 4.13%	1,214
Onboarding	56	Up 22 places+22	£500	-4.76%	2,215 4.05%	1,984
Product Ownership	77	Up 9 places+9	£525	+2.68%	1,868 3.41%	1,052
Management Information System	125	Up 18 places+18	£500	-4.80%	1,209 2.21%	1,570
Data Centre	128	Up 9 places+9	£525	+5.00%	1,178 2.15%	890
Enterprise Software	151	Up 151 places+151	£525	+10.52%	1,042 1.90%	940
AI Agents	171	Up 244 places+244	£560	+4.18%	951 1.74%	1,301
Distributed Systems	180	Up 57 places+57	£550	+7.42%	897 1.64%	781
Legacy Systems	199	Down 24 places-24	£530	+0.95%	816 1.49%	259
Data Protection Act	218	Down 56 places-56	£450	-2.17%	715 1.31%	45
Data Structures	229	Up 12 places+12	£519	-5.68%	661 1.21%	433
Self-Motivation	278	Down 46 places-46	£500	+11.11%	525 0.96%	930
CMDB	283	Up 76 places+76	£520	-0.95%	514 0.94%	120
Operational Technology	285	Up 97 places+97	£575	+7.27%	508 0.93%	456
Virtual Team	290	Down 3 places-3	£525	+5.00%	496 0.91%	391
NHS	294	Up 21 places+21	£450	+1.92%	491 0.90%	397
Security Posture	312	Down 22 places-22	£550	+5.26%	461 0.84%	362
Hybrid Cloud	324	Up 5 places+5	£575	+4.54%	434 0.79%	232
Driving Licence	327	Down 46 places-46	£180	-10.00%	427 0.78%	1,073
Mobile App	334	Down 87 places-87	£476	-4.26%	413 0.76%	427
PKI	346	Down 4 places-4	£556	+1.04%	396 0.72%	148
Public Cloud	367	Down 23 places-23	£600	+11.11%	361 0.66%	260
Greenfield Project	376	Down 81 places-81	£575	+4.54%	345 0.63%	292
Replication	390	Down 33 places-33	£528	+5.60%	328 0.60%	120
Life Science	422	Down 3 places-3	£575	-	282 0.52%	433
Analytical Mindset	426	Down 147 places-147	£500	-	278 0.51%	242
Cyber Threat	427	Down 21 places-21	£575	-0.86%	277 0.51%	354
Algorithms	428	Down 174 places-174	£650	+18.18%	276 0.50%	779
Derivative	450	Down 127 places-127	£700	-6.66%	250 0.46%	133
SCADA	450	Down 38 places-38	£563	+6.07%	250 0.46%	398
Foreign Exchange (FX)	462	Down 182 places-182	£700	-6.66%	237 0.43%	203
Mainframe	472	Down 16 places-16	£532	+28.96%	226 0.41%	75
Taxonomies	479	Up 26 places+26	£530	+6.00%	217 0.40%	75
Fixed Income	483	Down 163 places-163	£725	-3.33%	212 0.39%	164
Social Media	488	Down 25 places-25	£349	-7.00%	206 0.38%	453
Private Cloud	489	Down 54 places-54	£590	+2.60%	205 0.37%	111
Enterprise Cloud	499	Up 34 places+34	£575	+27.77%	195 0.36%	98
Low-Code	513	Down 65 places-65	£513	+2.50%	180 0.33%	206
Legacy Applications	518	Down 34 places-34	£529	-3.81%	175 0.32%	57
Equities	518	Down 169 places-169	£755	+0.70%	175 0.32%	148
Security Operations Centre	519	Down 107 places-107	£550	-4.34%	174 0.32%	125
Web Conferencing	521	Down 15 places-15	£400	+45.45%	172 0.31%	198
Clustering	521	Down 40 places-40	£575	+21.05%	172 0.31%	47
FMCG	534	Down 55 places-55	£550	+3.28%	159 0.29%	150
EPoS	537	Down 83 places-83	£155	-4.69%	156 0.29%	76
Marketing Technology	542	Down 21 places-21	£500	+0.80%	151 0.28%	235
Video Conferencing	544	Down 49 places-49	£274	+0.09%	149 0.27%	148
IoT	548	Down 101 places-101	£550	-	145 0.27%	442
Reference Data	551	Down 57 places-57	£550	-8.33%	142 0.26%	88
Linux Command Line	562	Down 105 places-105	£518	-10.00%	131 0.24%	136