Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	53	Up 43 places+43	£550	+4.76%	2,310 4.17%	2,483
Onboarding	56	Up 23 places+23	£500	-2.43%	2,237 4.04%	3,942
Product Ownership	79	Up 5 places+5	£530	+3.31%	1,895 3.42%	2,110
Management Information System	129	Up 13 places+13	£500	-6.89%	1,223 2.21%	2,129
Data Centre	131	Up 15 places+15	£525	+5.00%	1,181 2.13%	1,589
Enterprise Software	150	Up 151 places+151	£525	+13.88%	1,096 1.98%	1,710
AI Agents	175	Up 239 places+239	£560	+5.41%	982 1.77%	3,108
Distributed Systems	182	Up 62 places+62	£550	+7.84%	917 1.66%	1,642
Legacy Systems	200	Down 17 places-17	£530	+0.95%	811 1.47%	605
Data Protection Act	219	Down 53 places-53	£450	-5.26%	711 1.28%	83
Data Structures	225	Up 23 places+23	£510	-6.18%	685 1.24%	696
Self-Motivation	276	Down 41 places-41	£500	+11.11%	526 0.95%	1,615
CMDB	278	Up 86 places+86	£520	-0.95%	524 0.95%	191
Operational Technology	286	Up 96 places+96	£575	+7.27%	508 0.92%	665
NHS	290	Up 20 places+20	£450	+5.88%	503 0.91%	737
Virtual Team	293	Down 3 places-3	£525	+5.00%	498 0.90%	1,014
Security Posture	314	Down 29 places-29	£552	+5.14%	460 0.83%	701
Driving Licence	318	Down 40 places-40	£180	-2.17%	451 0.81%	1,393
Hybrid Cloud	321	Up 12 places+12	£588	+6.81%	446 0.81%	504
Mobile App	336	Down 83 places-83	£495	+1.53%	418 0.76%	762
PKI	345	Down 14 places-14	£550	-	405 0.73%	241
Public Cloud	374	Down 23 places-23	£600	+9.09%	366 0.66%	520
Replication	397	Down 43 places-43	£530	+6.00%	335 0.61%	233
Greenfield Project	397	Down 95 places-95	£575	+4.54%	335 0.61%	273
Life Science	417	Up 11 places+11	£575	-1.87%	305 0.55%	934
Cyber Threat	438	Down 31 places-31	£575	-0.86%	281 0.51%	597
Analytical Mindset	441	Down 161 places-161	£500	-	278 0.50%	397
Algorithms	444	Down 181 places-181	£650	+18.18%	275 0.50%	1,458
Derivative	463	Down 126 places-126	£700	-6.66%	255 0.46%	251
SCADA	472	Down 52 places-52	£550	+2.61%	244 0.44%	725
Foreign Exchange (FX)	476	Down 186 places-186	£700	-6.66%	240 0.43%	339
Mainframe	492	Down 31 places-31	£535	+29.69%	223 0.40%	113
Taxonomies	495	Up 11 places+11	£530	+6.00%	220 0.40%	160
Fixed Income	499	Down 163 places-163	£725	-3.33%	213 0.38%	236
Social Media	503	Down 32 places-32	£349	-7.00%	209 0.38%	657
Private Cloud	506	Down 66 places-66	£586	+1.82%	206 0.37%	230
Enterprise Cloud	510	Up 23 places+23	£575	+27.77%	202 0.37%	233
Low-Code	528	Down 75 places-75	£515	+2.90%	183 0.33%	340
Legacy Applications	534	Down 42 places-42	£529	+0.04%	177 0.32%	92
Security Operations Centre	537	Down 119 places-119	£550	-4.34%	174 0.31%	232
Clustering	537	Down 48 places-48	£575	+21.05%	174 0.31%	110
Web Conferencing	539	Down 31 places-31	£400	+46.78%	172 0.31%	536
Equities	547	Down 194 places-194	£756	+0.73%	164 0.30%	254
Video Conferencing	553	Down 49 places-49	£270	-1.27%	158 0.29%	198
Marketing Technology	554	Down 29 places-29	£500	+0.80%	157 0.28%	453
FMCG	554	Down 68 places-68	£550	+2.32%	157 0.28%	295
Reference Data	560	Down 56 places-56	£550	-8.33%	151 0.27%	176
EPoS	561	Down 111 places-111	£155	-4.69%	150 0.27%	97
IoT	564	Down 107 places-107	£550	-	147 0.27%	821
Robotics	580	Down 43 places-43	£683	+24.09%	131 0.24%	1,408