Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 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%	2,269 4.11%	2,491
Onboarding	56	Up 23 places+23	£500	-4.76%	2,177 3.95%	3,599
Product Ownership	79	Up 11 places+11	£525	+5.00%	1,851 3.36%	2,030
Data Centre	129	Up 8 places+8	£525	+5.00%	1,203 2.18%	1,498
Management Information System	135	Up 9 places+9	£500	-4.80%	1,164 2.11%	2,180
Enterprise Software	162	Up 140 places+140	£525	+9.09%	990 1.79%	1,592
AI Agents	174	Up 256 places+256	£575	+9.52%	927 1.68%	2,713
Distributed Systems	187	Up 52 places+52	£550	+4.76%	887 1.61%	1,453
Legacy Systems	197	Down 20 places-20	£530	+0.95%	831 1.51%	498
Data Protection Act	220	Down 56 places-56	£438	-5.40%	724 1.31%	69
Data Structures	233	Up 10 places+10	£509	-7.45%	666 1.21%	638
Operational Technology	287	Up 103 places+103	£575	+4.54%	524 0.95%	694
Self-Motivation	291	Down 55 places-55	£500	+11.11%	515 0.93%	1,593
CMDB	298	Up 64 places+64	£520	-1.88%	500 0.91%	188
Virtual Team	301	Down 19 places-19	£525	+5.00%	494 0.90%	936
Security Posture	317	Down 30 places-30	£563	+7.14%	470 0.85%	720
NHS	321	Up 9 places+9	£450	+5.88%	463 0.84%	634
Hybrid Cloud	335	Down 6 places-6	£588	+6.81%	426 0.77%	523
Driving Licence	339	Down 48 places-48	£180	-10.55%	421 0.76%	1,432
Mobile App	342	Down 96 places-96	£495	+1.02%	418 0.76%	687
PKI	353	Down 5 places-5	£550	-	403 0.73%	237
Greenfield Project	387	Down 95 places-95	£575	+4.54%	348 0.63%	232
Public Cloud	390	Down 50 places-50	£600	+11.73%	345 0.63%	453
Replication	397	Down 32 places-32	£528	+11.15%	331 0.60%	198
Analytical Mindset	425	Down 141 places-141	£500	+5.26%	293 0.53%	392
Algorithms	438	Down 182 places-182	£650	+18.18%	277 0.50%	1,371
Life Science	440	Down 19 places-19	£551	-4.13%	273 0.49%	753
Cyber Threat	440	Down 35 places-35	£588	+1.29%	273 0.49%	434
Derivative	452	Down 139 places-139	£700	-6.66%	259 0.47%	223
SCADA	459	Down 50 places-50	£560	+4.47%	250 0.45%	745
Foreign Exchange (FX)	464	Down 187 places-187	£700	-6.66%	242 0.44%	303
Mainframe	475	Down 24 places-24	£535	+29.69%	229 0.42%	100
Taxonomies	483	Up 30 places+30	£530	+6.00%	220 0.40%	137
Fixed Income	487	Down 179 places-179	£725	-3.33%	215 0.39%	200
Social Media	498	Down 26 places-26	£386	-5.79%	203 0.37%	639
Low-Code	506	Down 54 places-54	£500	-0.99%	195 0.35%	311
Private Cloud	507	Down 68 places-68	£586	+1.82%	194 0.35%	235
Enterprise Cloud	512	Up 23 places+23	£563	+18.42%	189 0.34%	213
Equities	522	Down 177 places-177	£755	+0.66%	179 0.32%	218
Clustering	524	Down 36 places-36	£571	+20.10%	176 0.32%	104
Web Conferencing	525	Down 17 places-17	£400	+38.88%	175 0.32%	492
Legacy Applications	532	Down 48 places-48	£527	-5.89%	168 0.30%	85
FMCG	534	Down 56 places-56	£550	+1.14%	166 0.30%	264
Security Operations Centre	536	Down 114 places-114	£550	-4.34%	164 0.30%	210
EPoS	548	Down 83 places-83	£155	-4.69%	152 0.28%	98
Video Conferencing	550	Down 52 places-52	£274	+0.09%	150 0.27%	189
IoT	552	Down 100 places-100	£550	-	148 0.27%	770
Marketing Technology	555	Down 29 places-29	£500	+0.80%	145 0.26%	365
Linux Command Line	567	Down 107 places-107	£500	-13.04%	133 0.24%	185
Reference Data	567	Down 66 places-66	£550	-8.33%	133 0.24%	139