Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 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%	2,272 4.15%	638
Onboarding	56	Up 22 places+22	£500	-3.14%	2,227 4.06%	4,718
Product Ownership	77	Up 8 places+8	£527	+2.82%	1,892 3.45%	601
Management Information System	129	Up 15 places+15	£500	-6.89%	1,222 2.23%	794
Data Centre	133	Up 9 places+9	£525	+5.00%	1,168 2.13%	444
Enterprise Software	152	Up 142 places+142	£525	+14.00%	1,062 1.94%	443
AI Agents	172	Up 247 places+247	£560	+3.46%	969 1.77%	627
Distributed Systems	181	Up 59 places+59	£550	+7.84%	900 1.64%	336
Legacy Systems	199	Down 23 places-23	£530	+0.95%	813 1.48%	167
Data Protection Act	218	Down 54 places-54	£450	-5.26%	719 1.31%	27
Data Structures	228	Up 14 places+14	£511	-7.13%	670 1.22%	182
Self-Motivation	281	Down 49 places-49	£500	+11.11%	523 0.95%	553
CMDB	284	Up 83 places+83	£519	-1.19%	519 0.95%	60
Operational Technology	293	Up 91 places+91	£575	+7.27%	505 0.92%	262
Virtual Team	297	Down 16 places-16	£525	+5.00%	497 0.91%	148
NHS	299	Up 8 places+8	£450	-	495 0.90%	346
Security Posture	317	Down 36 places-36	£563	+7.14%	454 0.83%	208
Hybrid Cloud	326	Up 10 places+10	£588	+6.81%	438 0.80%	121
Driving Licence	331	Down 56 places-56	£180	-5.26%	431 0.79%	971
Mobile App	339	Down 91 places-91	£490	-2.00%	415 0.76%	273
PKI	345	Down 6 places-6	£554	+0.72%	405 0.74%	92
Public Cloud	374	Down 27 places-27	£600	+9.09%	361 0.66%	108
Greenfield Project	393	Down 98 places-98	£575	+4.54%	336 0.61%	131
Replication	400	Down 36 places-36	£529	+5.80%	325 0.59%	77
Life Science	420	Up 12 places+12	£575	-0.86%	292 0.53%	179
Cyber Threat	432	Down 22 places-22	£581	+0.64%	279 0.51%	318
Algorithms	433	Down 176 places-176	£650	+18.18%	278 0.51%	331
Analytical Mindset	434	Down 157 places-157	£500	-	277 0.51%	119
Derivative	462	Down 132 places-132	£700	-6.66%	246 0.45%	53
SCADA	463	Down 45 places-45	£563	+4.94%	244 0.45%	297
Foreign Exchange (FX)	468	Down 190 places-190	£700	-6.66%	238 0.43%	75
Mainframe	482	Down 21 places-21	£530	+28.48%	223 0.41%	41
Taxonomies	485	Up 25 places+25	£530	+6.00%	219 0.40%	41
Fixed Income	490	Down 166 places-166	£725	-3.33%	211 0.38%	61
Social Media	495	Down 24 places-24	£349	-7.00%	206 0.38%	169
Private Cloud	495	Down 53 places-53	£586	+1.82%	206 0.38%	58
Enterprise Cloud	501	Up 34 places+34	£575	+27.77%	199 0.36%	49
Low-Code	518	Down 64 places-64	£515	+2.90%	182 0.33%	89
Security Operations Centre	521	Down 100 places-100	£550	-4.34%	179 0.33%	97
Legacy Applications	524	Down 34 places-34	£529	-3.15%	176 0.32%	35
Clustering	527	Down 38 places-38	£575	+21.05%	172 0.31%	28
Web Conferencing	527	Down 15 places-15	£400	+45.45%	172 0.31%	86
Equities	532	Down 181 places-181	£755	+0.70%	167 0.30%	53
FMCG	540	Down 52 places-52	£550	+2.80%	157 0.29%	120
Marketing Technology	545	Down 17 places-17	£500	+0.80%	152 0.28%	91
Video Conferencing	545	Down 40 places-40	£245	-10.42%	152 0.28%	103
EPoS	546	Down 85 places-85	£155	-4.69%	151 0.28%	55
Reference Data	551	Down 46 places-46	£538	-10.41%	146 0.27%	48
IoT	552	Down 95 places-95	£550	-	145 0.26%	219
Linux Command Line	567	Down 101 places-101	£521	-6.50%	130 0.24%	73