Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	53	Up 42 places+42	£550	+4.76%	2,288 4.16%	2,520
Onboarding	56	Up 21 places+21	£500	-2.91%	2,221 4.03%	4,017
Product Ownership	77	Up 6 places+6	£526	+2.63%	1,884 3.42%	2,174
Management Information System	128	Up 12 places+12	£500	-6.89%	1,220 2.22%	2,216
Data Centre	131	Up 15 places+15	£525	+5.00%	1,171 2.13%	1,606
Enterprise Software	150	Up 150 places+150	£525	+13.88%	1,078 1.96%	1,742
AI Agents	171	Up 244 places+244	£560	+5.41%	977 1.77%	3,137
Distributed Systems	182	Up 58 places+58	£550	+7.84%	902 1.64%	1,671
Legacy Systems	202	Down 25 places-25	£530	+0.95%	807 1.47%	645
Data Protection Act	220	Down 57 places-57	£450	-5.26%	710 1.29%	88
Data Structures	228	Up 17 places+17	£510	-6.19%	677 1.23%	703
CMDB	280	Up 84 places+84	£520	-0.95%	524 0.95%	196
Self-Motivation	282	Down 52 places-52	£500	+11.11%	522 0.95%	1,627
Operational Technology	291	Up 91 places+91	£575	+7.27%	505 0.92%	668
NHS	296	Up 12 places+12	£450	+3.92%	499 0.91%	730
Virtual Team	299	Down 13 places-13	£525	+5.00%	495 0.90%	1,027
Security Posture	318	Down 36 places-36	£563	+7.14%	458 0.83%	702
Driving Licence	324	Down 52 places-52	£180	-2.43%	442 0.80%	1,444
Hybrid Cloud	326	Up 7 places+7	£588	+6.81%	440 0.80%	505
Mobile App	343	Down 97 places-97	£478	-2.53%	413 0.75%	842
PKI	353	Down 16 places-16	£550	-	398 0.72%	247
Public Cloud	375	Down 26 places-26	£600	+9.09%	364 0.66%	533
Greenfield Project	396	Down 94 places-94	£575	+4.54%	334 0.61%	275
Replication	402	Down 46 places-46	£530	+6.00%	327 0.59%	237
Life Science	417	Up 12 places+12	£575	-0.86%	303 0.55%	944
Cyber Threat	435	Down 27 places-27	£575	-0.86%	280 0.51%	594
Analytical Mindset	437	Down 162 places-162	£500	-	278 0.50%	411
Algorithms	438	Down 178 places-178	£650	+18.18%	276 0.50%	1,571
Derivative	456	Down 123 places-123	£700	-6.66%	252 0.46%	257
SCADA	460	Down 39 places-39	£550	+2.61%	245 0.44%	732
Foreign Exchange (FX)	467	Down 181 places-181	£700	-6.66%	237 0.43%	341
Mainframe	481	Down 21 places-21	£535	+29.69%	222 0.40%	120
Taxonomies	483	Up 23 places+23	£530	+6.00%	218 0.40%	163
Fixed Income	487	Down 156 places-156	£725	-3.33%	210 0.38%	243
Social Media	490	Down 20 places-20	£349	-7.00%	207 0.38%	670
Private Cloud	491	Down 52 places-52	£586	+1.82%	206 0.37%	235
Enterprise Cloud	495	Up 38 places+38	£575	+27.77%	202 0.37%	235
Low-Code	515	Down 64 places-64	£515	+2.90%	181 0.33%	345
Legacy Applications	519	Down 28 places-28	£529	+0.04%	176 0.32%	91
Security Operations Centre	522	Down 103 places-103	£550	-4.34%	173 0.31%	224
Web Conferencing	523	Down 15 places-15	£400	+46.78%	172 0.31%	538
Clustering	525	Down 38 places-38	£575	+21.05%	170 0.31%	109
Equities	531	Down 179 places-179	£756	+0.73%	163 0.30%	257
Marketing Technology	537	Down 12 places-12	£500	+0.80%	157 0.29%	463
FMCG	537	Down 51 places-51	£550	+2.32%	157 0.29%	277
Video Conferencing	538	Down 34 places-34	£260	-4.93%	156 0.28%	207
EPoS	544	Down 94 places-94	£155	-4.69%	150 0.27%	95
Reference Data	545	Down 42 places-42	£550	-8.33%	149 0.27%	177
IoT	548	Down 91 places-91	£550	-	146 0.27%	859
Robotics	564	Down 27 places-27	£690	+25.45%	130 0.24%	1,485