Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Oct 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%	2,274 4.14%	419
Onboarding	56	Up 23 places+23	£505	-3.80%	2,192 3.99%	598
Product Ownership	79	Up 9 places+9	£527	+3.33%	1,863 3.39%	434
Data Centre	128	Up 9 places+9	£525	+5.00%	1,197 2.18%	308
Management Information System	132	Up 10 places+10	£494	-5.90%	1,172 2.14%	757
Enterprise Software	160	Up 146 places+146	£525	+10.52%	1,005 1.83%	295
AI Agents	173	Up 262 places+262	£561	+5.64%	928 1.69%	287
Distributed Systems	182	Up 61 places+61	£550	+5.76%	894 1.63%	186
Legacy Systems	195	Down 14 places-14	£530	+0.95%	831 1.51%	99
Data Protection Act	218	Down 49 places-49	£444	-6.57%	715 1.30%	25
Data Structures	230	Up 16 places+16	£513	-6.81%	667 1.22%	109
Operational Technology	285	Up 115 places+115	£575	+7.27%	522 0.95%	238
Self-Motivation	287	Down 49 places-49	£500	+11.11%	520 0.95%	467
CMDB	295	Up 77 places+77	£520	-1.88%	501 0.91%	81
Virtual Team	299	Down 11 places-11	£525	+5.00%	495 0.90%	68
NHS	315	Up 16 places+16	£450	+5.88%	470 0.86%	230
Security Posture	316	Down 21 places-21	£557	+6.14%	469 0.85%	196
Hybrid Cloud	333	Up 1 place+1	£588	+6.81%	427 0.78%	73
Driving Licence	335	Down 42 places-42	£180	-10.00%	422 0.77%	877
Mobile App	337	Down 86 places-86	£476	-2.79%	418 0.76%	115
PKI	349	Up 2 places+2	£556	+1.04%	403 0.73%	69
Public Cloud	382	Down 34 places-34	£600	+11.73%	349 0.64%	67
Greenfield Project	383	Down 83 places-83	£575	+4.54%	347 0.63%	68
Replication	399	Down 32 places-32	£528	+5.60%	325 0.59%	52
Analytical Mindset	423	Down 139 places-139	£500	+0.50%	290 0.53%	88
Algorithms	433	Down 172 places-172	£650	+18.18%	275 0.50%	225
Cyber Threat	433	Down 22 places-22	£588	+1.29%	275 0.50%	190
Life Science	434	Down 9 places-9	£564	-2.00%	274 0.50%	61
Derivative	445	Down 121 places-121	£700	-6.66%	258 0.47%	22
SCADA	451	Down 31 places-31	£563	+7.14%	252 0.46%	292
Foreign Exchange (FX)	459	Down 177 places-177	£700	-6.66%	242 0.44%	28
Mainframe	468	Down 9 places-9	£535	+29.69%	233 0.42%	26
Taxonomies	480	Up 34 places+34	£530	+6.00%	220 0.40%	17
Fixed Income	484	Down 164 places-164	£725	-3.33%	216 0.39%	18
Social Media	497	Down 20 places-20	£373	-9.14%	201 0.37%	196
Private Cloud	504	Down 62 places-62	£581	+1.04%	194 0.35%	48
Enterprise Cloud	504	Up 36 places+36	£561	+18.00%	194 0.35%	28
Low-Code	513	Down 58 places-58	£513	+0.49%	185 0.34%	65
Equities	519	Down 166 places-166	£755	+0.66%	179 0.33%	12
Clustering	523	Down 30 places-30	£575	+21.05%	175 0.32%	16
Web Conferencing	525	Down 13 places-13	£400	+42.60%	173 0.32%	60
Legacy Applications	530	Down 40 places-40	£527	-5.89%	168 0.31%	21
FMCG	533	Down 47 places-47	£550	+1.14%	165 0.30%	109
Security Operations Centre	533	Down 107 places-107	£550	-3.08%	165 0.30%	81
Video Conferencing	545	Down 41 places-41	£298	+8.77%	153 0.28%	79
EPoS	545	Down 73 places-73	£155	-4.69%	153 0.28%	41
IoT	550	Down 91 places-91	£550	-	148 0.27%	153
Marketing Technology	553	Down 22 places-22	£500	+1.01%	145 0.26%	74
Reference Data	562	Down 57 places-57	£550	-8.33%	136 0.25%	19
Linux Command Line	567	Down 100 places-100	£509	-11.52%	131 0.24%	59