Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	54	Up 40 places+40	£550	+4.76%	2,268 4.14%	411
Onboarding	55	Up 22 places+22	£500	-4.76%	2,209 4.03%	702
Product Ownership	76	Up 11 places+11	£525	+2.94%	1,873 3.42%	419
Management Information System	129	Up 7 places+7	£500	-4.76%	1,186 2.17%	632
Data Centre	130	Up 1 place+1	£525	+5.00%	1,175 2.15%	310
Enterprise Software	158	Up 145 places+145	£525	+10.52%	1,029 1.88%	284
AI Agents	175	Up 247 places+247	£563	+7.14%	940 1.72%	303
Distributed Systems	182	Up 57 places+57	£550	+7.52%	899 1.64%	178
Legacy Systems	200	Down 28 places-28	£530	+0.95%	826 1.51%	101
Data Protection Act	221	Down 60 places-60	£450	-1.63%	716 1.31%	28
Data Structures	230	Up 10 places+10	£525	-4.54%	672 1.23%	97
Self-Motivation	286	Down 55 places-55	£500	+11.11%	523 0.96%	459
Operational Technology	287	Up 102 places+102	£575	+7.27%	522 0.95%	195
CMDB	294	Up 68 places+68	£520	-1.88%	510 0.93%	78
Virtual Team	300	Down 12 places-12	£525	+5.00%	498 0.91%	68
NHS	313	Up 9 places+9	£450	+5.88%	475 0.87%	226
Security Posture	317	Down 21 places-21	£550	+4.76%	467 0.85%	132
Driving Licence	333	Down 41 places-41	£180	-10.00%	431 0.79%	857
Hybrid Cloud	335	Down 6 places-6	£575	+4.54%	426 0.78%	72
Mobile App	339	Down 92 places-92	£475	-4.52%	416 0.76%	114
PKI	352	Down 8 places-8	£550	-	399 0.73%	76
Public Cloud	378	Down 34 places-34	£600	+11.73%	353 0.64%	72
Greenfield Project	380	Down 85 places-85	£575	+4.54%	350 0.64%	65
Replication	399	Down 41 places-41	£527	+5.30%	323 0.59%	48
Analytical Mindset	426	Down 142 places-142	£500	-	286 0.52%	84
Life Science	431	Down 14 places-14	£575	-	280 0.51%	60
Cyber Threat	434	Down 31 places-31	£581	+0.21%	276 0.50%	183
Algorithms	435	Down 176 places-176	£650	+18.18%	274 0.50%	209
Derivative	449	Down 133 places-133	£700	-6.66%	256 0.47%	23
SCADA	452	Down 42 places-42	£561	+6.90%	252 0.46%	265
Foreign Exchange (FX)	466	Down 184 places-184	£700	-6.66%	235 0.43%	27
Mainframe	469	Down 20 places-20	£535	+29.69%	231 0.42%	23
Taxonomies	480	Up 25 places+25	£530	+6.00%	220 0.40%	13
Fixed Income	485	Down 171 places-171	£725	-3.33%	215 0.39%	18
Social Media	497	Down 31 places-31	£349	-11.14%	202 0.37%	182
Private Cloud	499	Down 68 places-68	£586	+1.82%	200 0.37%	45
Enterprise Cloud	506	Up 25 places+25	£563	+18.42%	192 0.35%	27
Low-Code	514	Down 70 places-70	£514	+2.80%	183 0.33%	67
Equities	518	Down 171 places-171	£755	+0.66%	179 0.33%	11
Clustering	522	Down 39 places-39	£575	+21.05%	175 0.32%	18
Legacy Applications	522	Down 40 places-40	£529	-5.53%	175 0.32%	17
Web Conferencing	524	Down 21 places-21	£400	+42.60%	173 0.32%	62
Security Operations Centre	527	Down 111 places-111	£550	-1.78%	169 0.31%	50
FMCG	532	Down 56 places-56	£550	+2.80%	163 0.30%	113
EPoS	539	Down 80 places-80	£155	-4.69%	156 0.28%	38
Video Conferencing	544	Down 48 places-48	£298	+8.77%	151 0.28%	77
Marketing Technology	545	Down 23 places-23	£500	+0.80%	150 0.27%	68
IoT	548	Down 99 places-99	£550	-	147 0.27%	150
Reference Data	553	Down 57 places-57	£550	-8.33%	142 0.26%	19
Linux Command Line	564	Down 109 places-109	£518	-10.00%	131 0.24%	60