Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

Use this option to select the period over which the statistics are calculated.

There is a choice between 3 and 6 months to 3 November 2026 with year-over-year comparisons.

Exclude

Use this option to exclude results with historical job ad aggregates falling below the selected threshold during the period.

When used in combination with column sorting, this option can be used to display results of greater statistical significance.

Results 1 - 50 of 146

Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	54	Up 43 places+43	£550	+4.76%	2,270 4.13%	1,051
Onboarding	55	Up 24 places+24	£500	-4.76%	2,231 4.06%	1,556
Product Ownership	73	Up 13 places+13	£525	+2.43%	1,891 3.44%	875
Management Information System	126	Up 15 places+15	£500	-4.76%	1,220 2.22%	1,359
Data Centre	130	Up 7 places+7	£525	+5.00%	1,178 2.14%	731
Enterprise Software	149	Up 145 places+145	£525	+10.52%	1,053 1.91%	736
AI Agents	168	Up 241 places+241	£563	+4.65%	971 1.77%	1,131
Distributed Systems	177	Up 61 places+61	£550	+7.52%	905 1.65%	657
Legacy Systems	198	Down 23 places-23	£530	+0.95%	818 1.49%	225
Data Protection Act	216	Down 51 places-51	£450	-5.26%	722 1.31%	37
Data Structures	229	Up 12 places+12	£513	-6.81%	665 1.21%	357
Self-Motivation	278	Down 46 places-46	£500	+11.11%	525 0.95%	704
CMDB	280	Up 70 places+70	£520	-0.95%	517 0.94%	112
Operational Technology	281	Up 93 places+93	£575	+7.27%	513 0.93%	436
NHS	287	Up 20 places+20	£450	+1.92%	500 0.91%	344
Virtual Team	288	Down 6 places-6	£525	+5.00%	499 0.91%	276
Security Posture	309	Down 23 places-23	£550	+5.26%	459 0.83%	398
Hybrid Cloud	318	Up 3 places+3	£575	+4.54%	436 0.79%	191
Driving Licence	319	Down 40 places-40	£180	-9.88%	434 0.79%	1,053
Mobile App	330	Down 85 places-85	£484	-1.76%	415 0.75%	365
PKI	340	Down 10 places-10	£556	+1.04%	401 0.73%	134
Public Cloud	362	Down 26 places-26	£600	+10.59%	364 0.66%	215
Greenfield Project	376	Down 87 places-87	£575	+4.54%	344 0.63%	258
Replication	386	Down 38 places-38	£529	+5.70%	331 0.60%	107
Life Science	419	Down 7 places-7	£575	-	285 0.52%	333
Cyber Threat	422	Down 24 places-24	£575	-0.86%	282 0.51%	330
Analytical Mindset	426	Down 149 places-149	£500	-	278 0.51%	178
Algorithms	426	Down 172 places-172	£650	+18.18%	278 0.51%	614
Derivative	443	Down 125 places-125	£700	-6.66%	252 0.46%	117
SCADA	444	Down 43 places-43	£563	+4.99%	251 0.46%	333
Foreign Exchange (FX)	453	Down 173 places-173	£700	-6.66%	240 0.44%	170
Mainframe	465	Down 16 places-16	£529	+28.24%	227 0.41%	65
Taxonomies	472	Up 26 places+26	£530	+6.00%	220 0.40%	53
Fixed Income	474	Down 158 places-158	£725	-3.33%	217 0.39%	147
Private Cloud	480	Down 52 places-52	£590	+2.60%	207 0.38%	95
Social Media	483	Down 27 places-27	£349	-7.00%	204 0.37%	340
Enterprise Cloud	488	Up 34 places+34	£575	+31.42%	199 0.36%	89
Low-Code	504	Down 62 places-62	£513	+2.50%	182 0.33%	201
Security Operations Centre	505	Down 101 places-101	£550	-4.34%	181 0.33%	123
Equities	511	Down 170 places-170	£755	+0.70%	175 0.32%	129
Legacy Applications	511	Down 36 places-36	£529	-3.15%	175 0.32%	47
Clustering	514	Down 39 places-39	£575	+21.05%	172 0.31%	43
Web Conferencing	514	Down 16 places-16	£400	+45.45%	172 0.31%	153
FMCG	526	Down 54 places-54	£550	+3.28%	159 0.29%	134
EPoS	530	Down 79 places-79	£155	-4.69%	155 0.28%	64
Marketing Technology	534	Down 20 places-20	£500	+0.80%	151 0.27%	184
Video Conferencing	534	Down 46 places-46	£274	+0.09%	151 0.27%	174
IoT	538	Down 98 places-98	£550	-	147 0.27%	313
Reference Data	539	Down 51 places-51	£550	-8.33%	146 0.27%	71
Linux Command Line	554	Down 104 places-104	£518	-8.60%	131 0.24%	113