Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	52	Up 44 places+44	£550	+4.76%	2,274 4.15%	411
Onboarding	54	Up 24 places+24	£500	-4.76%	2,205 4.02%	700
Product Ownership	78	Up 9 places+9	£529	+3.21%	1,860 3.39%	419
Data Centre	130	Up 6 places+6	£525	+5.00%	1,184 2.16%	311
Management Information System	132	Up 12 places+12	£500	-4.76%	1,177 2.15%	642
Enterprise Software	162	Up 152 places+152	£525	+9.09%	1,012 1.85%	284
AI Agents	179	Up 262 places+262	£569	+8.33%	935 1.71%	302
Distributed Systems	186	Up 60 places+60	£550	+5.76%	900 1.64%	178
Legacy Systems	201	Down 20 places-20	£530	+0.95%	832 1.52%	101
Data Protection Act	224	Down 55 places-55	£450	-2.70%	719 1.31%	28
Data Structures	237	Up 10 places+10	£520	-5.45%	668 1.22%	98
Operational Technology	291	Up 116 places+116	£575	+7.27%	525 0.96%	195
Self-Motivation	294	Down 55 places-55	£500	+11.11%	521 0.95%	461
CMDB	301	Up 78 places+78	£520	-1.88%	507 0.92%	77
Virtual Team	304	Down 8 places-8	£525	+5.00%	499 0.91%	68
Security Posture	316	Down 13 places-13	£551	+4.95%	473 0.86%	132
NHS	319	Up 16 places+16	£450	+5.88%	470 0.86%	239
Hybrid Cloud	338	Up 3 places+3	£578	+5.00%	427 0.78%	72
Driving Licence	340	Down 39 places-39	£180	-10.00%	424 0.77%	856
Mobile App	345	Down 91 places-91	£476	-2.79%	416 0.76%	114
PKI	358	Down 1 place-1	£560	+1.72%	400 0.73%	76
Public Cloud	388	Down 31 places-31	£600	+11.73%	354 0.65%	72
Greenfield Project	390	Down 85 places-85	£575	+4.54%	350 0.64%	65
Replication	408	Down 36 places-36	£528	+5.60%	322 0.59%	48
Analytical Mindset	430	Down 141 places-141	£500	-	292 0.53%	83
Life Science	444	Down 11 places-11	£564	-2.00%	276 0.50%	60
Algorithms	446	Down 181 places-181	£650	+18.18%	274 0.50%	209
Cyber Threat	446	Down 27 places-27	£588	+1.29%	274 0.50%	183
Derivative	458	Down 127 places-127	£700	-6.66%	258 0.47%	22
SCADA	464	Down 35 places-35	£563	+7.23%	250 0.46%	265
Foreign Exchange (FX)	474	Down 187 places-187	£700	-6.66%	239 0.44%	27
Mainframe	480	Down 14 places-14	£535	+29.69%	233 0.43%	23
Taxonomies	491	Up 32 places+32	£530	+6.00%	220 0.40%	13
Fixed Income	494	Down 166 places-166	£725	-3.33%	217 0.40%	18
Social Media	509	Down 24 places-24	£373	-5.09%	201 0.37%	182
Private Cloud	512	Down 62 places-62	£590	+2.60%	198 0.36%	45
Enterprise Cloud	518	Up 31 places+31	£563	+18.42%	192 0.35%	27
Low-Code	525	Down 63 places-63	£513	+2.65%	184 0.34%	67
Equities	530	Down 169 places-169	£755	+0.66%	179 0.33%	11
Clustering	534	Down 32 places-32	£575	+21.05%	175 0.32%	18
Web Conferencing	535	Down 14 places-14	£400	+42.60%	173 0.32%	62
Legacy Applications	536	Down 37 places-37	£529	-5.53%	172 0.31%	17
Security Operations Centre	541	Down 109 places-109	£550	-1.78%	167 0.30%	50
FMCG	542	Down 47 places-47	£550	+1.14%	166 0.30%	113
EPoS	555	Down 74 places-74	£155	-4.69%	153 0.28%	38
Video Conferencing	555	Down 42 places-42	£298	+8.77%	153 0.28%	77
IoT	558	Down 90 places-90	£550	-	149 0.27%	150
Marketing Technology	560	Down 21 places-21	£500	+0.80%	147 0.27%	68
Reference Data	569	Down 56 places-56	£550	-8.33%	138 0.25%	19
Linux Command Line	575	Down 99 places-99	£518	-10.00%	132 0.24%	60