Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	54	Up 39 places+39	£550	+4.76%	2,292 4.16%	577
Onboarding	56	Up 21 places+21	£500	-3.38%	2,226 4.04%	939
Product Ownership	77	Up 6 places+6	£525	+2.43%	1,892 3.43%	561
Management Information System	126	Up 18 places+18	£500	-6.89%	1,228 2.23%	739
Data Centre	130	Up 15 places+15	£525	+5.00%	1,173 2.13%	397
Enterprise Software	148	Up 160 places+160	£525	+14.00%	1,075 1.95%	416
AI Agents	167	Up 255 places+255	£560	+5.41%	974 1.77%	575
Distributed Systems	176	Up 72 places+72	£550	+7.84%	907 1.64%	301
Legacy Systems	196	Down 14 places-14	£530	+0.95%	813 1.47%	176
Data Protection Act	214	Down 47 places-47	£450	-5.26%	717 1.30%	32
Data Structures	223	Up 29 places+29	£511	-7.13%	677 1.23%	189
CMDB	273	Up 96 places+96	£520	-0.95%	526 0.95%	61
Self-Motivation	274	Down 34 places-34	£500	+11.11%	525 0.95%	518
Operational Technology	284	Up 103 places+103	£575	+7.27%	509 0.92%	249
Virtual Team	291	Up 3 places+3	£525	+5.00%	500 0.91%	125
NHS	293	Up 23 places+23	£450	+1.92%	498 0.90%	367
Security Posture	312	Down 22 places-22	£563	+7.14%	459 0.83%	190
Driving Licence	318	Down 40 places-40	£180	-4.00%	443 0.80%	994
Hybrid Cloud	319	Up 19 places+19	£588	+6.81%	442 0.80%	110
Mobile App	329	Down 75 places-75	£490	-	419 0.76%	256
PKI	341	Up 3 places+3	£550	-	403 0.73%	97
Public Cloud	366	Down 12 places-12	£600	+9.09%	364 0.66%	112
Greenfield Project	386	Down 76 places-76	£575	+4.54%	337 0.61%	113
Replication	390	Down 28 places-28	£529	+5.80%	330 0.60%	68
Life Science	406	Up 29 places+29	£575	-0.86%	302 0.55%	166
Cyber Threat	425	Down 11 places-11	£581	+0.21%	280 0.51%	293
Analytical Mindset	425	Down 141 places-141	£500	-	280 0.51%	111
Algorithms	426	Down 159 places-159	£650	+18.18%	279 0.51%	336
Derivative	448	Down 111 places-111	£700	-6.66%	252 0.46%	56
SCADA	450	Down 24 places-24	£555	+3.54%	249 0.45%	263
Foreign Exchange (FX)	457	Down 165 places-165	£700	-6.66%	239 0.43%	66
Mainframe	473	Down 8 places-8	£535	+29.69%	222 0.40%	41
Taxonomies	474	Up 38 places+38	£530	+6.00%	218 0.40%	32
Fixed Income	477	Down 144 places-144	£725	-3.33%	212 0.38%	55
Social Media	482	Down 8 places-8	£349	-7.00%	206 0.37%	161
Private Cloud	482	Down 38 places-38	£586	+1.82%	206 0.37%	57
Enterprise Cloud	486	Up 53 places+53	£575	+27.77%	202 0.37%	47
Low-Code	505	Down 49 places-49	£515	+3.00%	182 0.33%	88
Security Operations Centre	508	Down 84 places-84	£550	-3.08%	179 0.32%	94
Legacy Applications	510	Down 15 places-15	£529	-3.15%	177 0.32%	32
Clustering	515	Down 22 places-22	£575	+21.05%	172 0.31%	28
Web Conferencing	515	No change0	£400	+46.78%	172 0.31%	91
Equities	520	Down 165 places-165	£755	+0.70%	166 0.30%	48
FMCG	528	Down 37 places-37	£550	+2.80%	158 0.29%	115
Marketing Technology	530	Up 1 place+1	£500	+0.80%	156 0.28%	95
Video Conferencing	530	Down 21 places-21	£260	-4.93%	156 0.28%	104
EPoS	533	Down 78 places-78	£155	-4.69%	153 0.28%	59
Reference Data	536	Down 27 places-27	£550	-8.33%	149 0.27%	37
IoT	539	Down 77 places-77	£550	-	146 0.26%	222
Linux Command Line	555	Down 85 places-85	£521	-6.50%	130 0.24%	68