Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	55	Up 42 places+42	£550	+4.76%	2,276 4.13%	723
Onboarding	56	Up 23 places+23	£500	-4.58%	2,233 4.06%	1,202
Product Ownership	76	Up 10 places+10	£525	+2.43%	1,900 3.45%	654
Management Information System	129	Up 16 places+16	£500	-4.76%	1,227 2.23%	1,086
Data Centre	133	Up 8 places+8	£525	+5.00%	1,177 2.14%	500
Enterprise Software	155	Up 142 places+142	£525	+10.52%	1,062 1.93%	498
AI Agents	171	Up 242 places+242	£561	+5.64%	972 1.77%	781
Distributed Systems	180	Up 61 places+61	£550	+7.42%	904 1.64%	408
Legacy Systems	200	Down 21 places-21	£530	+0.95%	822 1.49%	164
Data Protection Act	221	Down 53 places-53	£450	-2.70%	725 1.32%	24
Data Structures	231	Up 11 places+11	£509	-7.45%	665 1.21%	232
Self-Motivation	287	Down 53 places-53	£500	+11.11%	526 0.96%	557
CMDB	290	Up 67 places+67	£520	-0.95%	521 0.95%	71
Operational Technology	296	Up 82 places+82	£575	+7.27%	511 0.93%	361
NHS	303	Up 9 places+9	£450	+1.92%	502 0.91%	314
Virtual Team	304	Down 21 places-21	£525	+5.00%	500 0.91%	167
Security Posture	325	Down 39 places-39	£563	+7.14%	457 0.83%	348
Hybrid Cloud	333	Down 4 places-4	£578	+5.00%	436 0.79%	138
Driving Licence	336	Down 55 places-55	£180	-9.88%	431 0.78%	953
Mobile App	345	Down 94 places-94	£484	-1.26%	414 0.75%	292
PKI	352	Down 15 places-15	£552	+0.36%	404 0.73%	96
Public Cloud	373	Down 29 places-29	£600	+10.59%	364 0.66%	124
Greenfield Project	391	Down 98 places-98	£575	+4.54%	341 0.62%	179
Replication	398	Down 42 places-42	£529	+5.80%	330 0.60%	83
Life Science	427	Down 9 places-9	£575	-	287 0.52%	209
Cyber Threat	432	Down 30 places-30	£575	-0.86%	282 0.51%	273
Algorithms	434	Down 177 places-177	£650	+18.18%	280 0.51%	412
Analytical Mindset	436	Down 158 places-158	£500	-	278 0.50%	129
Derivative	456	Down 132 places-132	£700	-6.66%	250 0.45%	60
SCADA	457	Down 50 places-50	£563	+4.99%	249 0.45%	282
Foreign Exchange (FX)	467	Down 188 places-188	£700	-6.66%	237 0.43%	100
Mainframe	479	Down 25 places-25	£527	+27.75%	225 0.41%	51
Taxonomies	483	Up 19 places+19	£530	+6.00%	221 0.40%	37
Fixed Income	488	Down 165 places-165	£725	-3.33%	214 0.39%	78
Private Cloud	494	Down 60 places-60	£590	+2.60%	206 0.37%	66
Social Media	495	Down 34 places-34	£349	-7.00%	205 0.37%	238
Enterprise Cloud	500	Up 25 places+25	£575	+27.77%	200 0.36%	61
Low-Code	518	Down 74 places-74	£513	+2.50%	182 0.33%	175
Security Operations Centre	520	Down 109 places-109	£550	-4.34%	180 0.33%	126
Legacy Applications	524	Down 44 places-44	£527	-3.52%	176 0.32%	38
Equities	527	Down 180 places-180	£756	+0.73%	172 0.31%	79
Web Conferencing	527	Down 24 places-24	£400	+45.45%	172 0.31%	114
Clustering	528	Down 48 places-48	£575	+21.05%	171 0.31%	27
FMCG	540	Down 63 places-63	£550	+2.32%	158 0.29%	117
EPoS	543	Down 87 places-87	£155	-4.69%	155 0.28%	61
Video Conferencing	545	Down 52 places-52	£250	-8.59%	153 0.28%	116
Marketing Technology	548	Down 29 places-29	£500	+0.80%	150 0.27%	132
IoT	551	Down 106 places-106	£550	-	147 0.27%	239
Reference Data	552	Down 59 places-59	£550	-8.33%	146 0.27%	48
Linux Command Line	567	Down 113 places-113	£518	-7.17%	131 0.24%	92