Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	53	Up 40 places+40	£550	+4.76%	2,261 4.13%	2,520
Onboarding	56	Up 22 places+22	£500	-4.76%	2,172 3.96%	3,628
Product Ownership	78	Up 9 places+9	£525	+2.94%	1,846 3.37%	2,037
Data Centre	128	Up 1 place+1	£525	+5.00%	1,194 2.18%	1,550
Management Information System	132	Up 3 places+3	£500	-4.80%	1,162 2.12%	2,235
Enterprise Software	162	Up 139 places+139	£525	+10.52%	996 1.82%	1,603
AI Agents	174	Up 262 places+262	£561	+5.64%	920 1.68%	2,769
Distributed Systems	182	Up 54 places+54	£550	+6.58%	887 1.62%	1,435
Legacy Systems	194	Down 21 places-21	£530	+0.95%	825 1.51%	496
Data Protection Act	215	Down 53 places-53	£444	-6.57%	705 1.29%	75
Data Structures	227	Up 12 places+12	£509	-7.45%	661 1.21%	661
Self-Motivation	273	Down 42 places-42	£500	+11.11%	520 0.95%	1,570
Operational Technology	273	Up 127 places+127	£575	+7.27%	520 0.95%	720
CMDB	281	Up 91 places+91	£520	-1.88%	501 0.91%	208
Virtual Team	286	Down 3 places-3	£525	+5.00%	494 0.90%	941
Security Posture	299	Down 9 places-9	£557	+6.14%	468 0.85%	726
NHS	301	Up 27 places+27	£450	+5.88%	465 0.85%	634
Hybrid Cloud	315	Up 17 places+17	£588	+6.81%	425 0.78%	517
Driving Licence	318	Down 29 places-29	£180	-10.00%	419 0.76%	1,399
Mobile App	320	Down 75 places-75	£478	-2.53%	415 0.76%	698
PKI	334	Up 18 places+18	£550	-	397 0.72%	244
Greenfield Project	368	Down 72 places-72	£575	+4.54%	347 0.63%	244
Public Cloud	371	Down 23 places-23	£600	+11.73%	343 0.63%	454
Replication	385	Down 18 places-18	£529	+5.70%	323 0.59%	191
Analytical Mindset	412	Down 134 places-134	£500	+0.50%	289 0.53%	395
Algorithms	423	Down 166 places-166	£650	+18.18%	277 0.51%	1,368
Cyber Threat	426	Down 14 places-14	£588	+1.29%	274 0.50%	477
Life Science	427	Down 1 place-1	£575	-	272 0.50%	760
Derivative	434	Down 116 places-116	£700	-6.66%	256 0.47%	233
SCADA	441	Down 20 places-20	£563	+7.19%	248 0.45%	728
Foreign Exchange (FX)	446	Down 172 places-172	£700	-6.66%	241 0.44%	305
Mainframe	457	Up 4 places+4	£535	+29.69%	230 0.42%	107
Taxonomies	467	Up 49 places+49	£530	+6.00%	219 0.40%	137
Fixed Income	472	Down 159 places-159	£725	-3.33%	214 0.39%	201
Social Media	483	Down 4 places-4	£373	-9.14%	203 0.37%	675
Private Cloud	492	Down 48 places-48	£581	+1.04%	193 0.35%	233
Enterprise Cloud	494	Up 48 places+48	£563	+18.42%	191 0.35%	211
Low-Code	499	Down 42 places-42	£511	+0.24%	186 0.34%	316
Equities	506	Down 154 places-154	£755	+0.66%	179 0.33%	217
Clustering	511	Down 16 places-16	£575	+21.05%	174 0.32%	99
Web Conferencing	512	Up 4 places+4	£400	+38.88%	173 0.32%	487
Legacy Applications	517	Down 25 places-25	£527	-5.89%	168 0.31%	86
FMCG	520	Down 31 places-31	£550	+2.32%	165 0.30%	258
Security Operations Centre	520	Down 93 places-93	£550	-3.08%	165 0.30%	211
EPoS	533	Down 59 places-59	£155	-4.69%	152 0.28%	95
Video Conferencing	534	Down 28 places-28	£298	+8.77%	151 0.28%	190
IoT	539	Down 78 places-78	£550	-	146 0.27%	786
Marketing Technology	540	Down 7 places-7	£500	+1.01%	145 0.26%	369
Reference Data	551	Down 44 places-44	£550	-8.33%	134 0.24%	135
Linux Command Line	554	Down 85 places-85	£518	-10.00%	130 0.24%	193