Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 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%	2,351 4.21%	2,445
Onboarding	58	Up 20 places+20	£500	-1.96%	2,255 4.03%	4,284
Product Ownership	77	Up 7 places+7	£525	+2.43%	1,920 3.44%	2,074
Management Information System	132	Up 11 places+11	£500	-4.76%	1,235 2.21%	2,303
Data Centre	135	Up 10 places+10	£525	+5.00%	1,182 2.11%	1,684
Enterprise Software	146	Up 153 places+153	£525	+10.52%	1,129 2.02%	1,663
AI Agents	168	Up 240 places+240	£560	+4.28%	1,009 1.81%	3,106
Distributed Systems	181	Up 61 places+61	£550	+7.63%	930 1.66%	1,631
Legacy Systems	205	Down 29 places-29	£530	+0.95%	824 1.47%	609
Data Protection Act	226	Down 64 places-64	£450	-	714 1.28%	94
Data Structures	229	Up 19 places+19	£513	-5.62%	708 1.27%	714
CMDB	288	Up 73 places+73	£520	-0.95%	527 0.94%	209
Self-Motivation	291	Down 62 places-62	£500	+11.11%	524 0.94%	1,839
NHS	294	Up 11 places+11	£450	+5.88%	517 0.93%	806
Operational Technology	295	Up 85 places+85	£575	+4.54%	511 0.91%	628
Virtual Team	305	Down 17 places-17	£525	+5.00%	497 0.89%	1,008
Security Posture	319	Down 36 places-36	£550	+4.76%	466 0.83%	691
Driving Licence	325	Down 49 places-49	£180	-2.17%	456 0.82%	1,805
Hybrid Cloud	330	Up 1 place+1	£584	+6.13%	448 0.80%	510
Mobile App	337	Down 92 places-92	£475	-2.56%	431 0.77%	756
PKI	346	Down 21 places-21	£550	-	416 0.74%	224
Public Cloud	372	Down 28 places-28	£600	+9.09%	376 0.67%	506
Replication	395	Down 42 places-42	£536	+4.63%	343 0.61%	237
Greenfield Project	398	Down 95 places-95	£575	+4.54%	338 0.60%	256
Life Science	416	Up 14 places+14	£575	-2.87%	309 0.55%	996
Cyber Threat	437	Down 30 places-30	£575	-0.86%	285 0.51%	628
Algorithms	445	Down 179 places-179	£650	+18.18%	276 0.49%	1,518
Analytical Mindset	447	Down 169 places-169	£500	-	274 0.49%	447
Derivative	461	Down 126 places-126	£700	-6.66%	255 0.46%	251
SCADA	468	Down 46 places-46	£550	+2.61%	246 0.44%	703
Foreign Exchange (FX)	476	Down 186 places-186	£700	-6.66%	237 0.42%	331
Mainframe	483	Down 32 places-32	£535	+29.69%	230 0.41%	104
Taxonomies	491	Up 16 places+16	£530	+6.00%	221 0.40%	177
Fixed Income	495	Down 164 places-164	£725	-3.33%	215 0.38%	228
Social Media	502	Down 29 places-29	£373	-0.66%	208 0.37%	795
Private Cloud	502	Down 63 places-63	£581	+1.04%	208 0.37%	224
Enterprise Cloud	505	Up 30 places+30	£563	+25.00%	204 0.37%	236
Legacy Applications	522	Down 28 places-28	£529	+0.04%	186 0.33%	91
Low-Code	525	Down 77 places-77	£517	+3.40%	183 0.33%	364
Security Operations Centre	529	Down 111 places-111	£550	-4.34%	179 0.32%	234
Clustering	530	Down 40 places-40	£575	+21.05%	178 0.32%	119
Web Conferencing	535	Down 25 places-25	£408	+49.83%	173 0.31%	620
Video Conferencing	538	Down 32 places-32	£300	+9.78%	170 0.30%	226
Equities	541	Down 187 places-187	£755	+0.70%	167 0.30%	251
Marketing Technology	551	Down 28 places-28	£500	+0.40%	157 0.28%	478
FMCG	551	Down 68 places-68	£550	-	157 0.28%	283
Reference Data	552	Down 46 places-46	£550	-8.33%	155 0.28%	183
EPoS	557	Down 107 places-107	£155	-4.69%	150 0.27%	156
IoT	560	Down 106 places-106	£550	+4.76%	147 0.26%	865
Robotics	574	Down 36 places-36	£663	+20.45%	132 0.24%	1,483