Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	54	Up 42 places+42	£550	+4.76%	2,261 4.13%	411
Onboarding	56	Up 22 places+22	£500	-4.76%	2,175 3.97%	546
Product Ownership	77	Up 10 places+10	£527	+3.33%	1,848 3.38%	375
Data Centre	127	Up 8 places+8	£525	+5.00%	1,195 2.18%	302
Management Information System	132	Up 9 places+9	£500	-4.85%	1,163 2.13%	747
Enterprise Software	162	Up 143 places+143	£525	+10.52%	996 1.82%	303
AI Agents	175	Up 259 places+259	£560	+5.41%	922 1.68%	297
Distributed Systems	182	Up 60 places+60	£550	+5.76%	888 1.62%	163
Legacy Systems	196	Down 15 places-15	£530	+0.95%	825 1.51%	95
Data Protection Act	221	Down 51 places-51	£444	-6.57%	704 1.29%	24
Data Structures	231	Up 14 places+14	£509	-7.45%	661 1.21%	106
Operational Technology	283	Up 115 places+115	£575	+7.27%	520 0.95%	258
Self-Motivation	284	Down 47 places-47	£500	+11.11%	518 0.95%	437
CMDB	293	Up 78 places+78	£520	-1.88%	501 0.92%	76
Virtual Team	297	Down 10 places-10	£525	+5.00%	493 0.90%	64
NHS	313	Up 18 places+18	£450	+5.88%	465 0.85%	233
Security Posture	314	Down 20 places-20	£557	+6.14%	464 0.85%	181
Hybrid Cloud	332	Up 2 places+2	£588	+6.81%	425 0.78%	74
Driving Licence	335	Down 43 places-43	£180	-10.00%	418 0.76%	854
Mobile App	337	Down 87 places-87	£478	-2.53%	414 0.76%	113
PKI	352	Down 1 place-1	£550	-	397 0.73%	75
Greenfield Project	383	Down 84 places-84	£575	+4.54%	347 0.63%	67
Public Cloud	386	Down 38 places-38	£600	+11.73%	343 0.63%	67
Replication	401	Down 35 places-35	£529	+5.70%	323 0.59%	54
Analytical Mindset	425	Down 142 places-142	£500	+0.50%	289 0.53%	84
Algorithms	438	Down 177 places-177	£650	+18.18%	275 0.50%	202
Cyber Threat	439	Down 29 places-29	£588	+1.29%	274 0.50%	189
Life Science	441	Down 17 places-17	£575	-	272 0.50%	58
Derivative	452	Down 127 places-127	£700	-6.66%	256 0.47%	23
SCADA	459	Down 40 places-40	£563	+7.19%	248 0.45%	271
Foreign Exchange (FX)	465	Down 184 places-184	£700	-6.66%	241 0.44%	27
Mainframe	475	Down 17 places-17	£535	+29.69%	230 0.42%	26
Taxonomies	486	Up 27 places+27	£530	+6.00%	219 0.40%	17
Fixed Income	490	Down 170 places-170	£725	-3.33%	214 0.39%	19
Social Media	503	Down 27 places-27	£373	-9.14%	201 0.37%	197
Private Cloud	511	Down 70 places-70	£581	+1.04%	193 0.35%	47
Enterprise Cloud	513	Up 26 places+26	£563	+18.42%	191 0.35%	25
Low-Code	519	Down 65 places-65	£513	+0.49%	185 0.34%	68
Equities	525	Down 172 places-172	£755	+0.66%	179 0.33%	11
Clustering	529	Down 37 places-37	£575	+21.05%	174 0.32%	16
Web Conferencing	530	Down 19 places-19	£400	+42.60%	173 0.32%	58
Legacy Applications	534	Down 45 places-45	£527	-5.89%	168 0.31%	27
FMCG	537	Down 51 places-51	£550	+2.32%	165 0.30%	107
Security Operations Centre	538	Down 113 places-113	£550	-3.08%	164 0.30%	79
Video Conferencing	550	Down 47 places-47	£274	+0.09%	152 0.28%	67
EPoS	552	Down 81 places-81	£155	-4.69%	150 0.27%	41
IoT	556	Down 98 places-98	£550	-	146 0.27%	157
Marketing Technology	557	Down 27 places-27	£500	+1.01%	145 0.27%	49
Reference Data	568	Down 64 places-64	£550	-8.33%	134 0.24%	18
Linux Command Line	571	Down 105 places-105	£518	-10.00%	130 0.24%	58