Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	52	Up 42 places+42	£550	+4.76%	2,331 4.19%	2,473
Onboarding	56	Up 22 places+22	£500	-2.43%	2,245 4.04%	3,928
Product Ownership	75	Up 8 places+8	£528	+3.02%	1,912 3.44%	2,083
Management Information System	125	Up 15 places+15	£500	-6.89%	1,233 2.22%	2,117
Data Centre	129	Up 14 places+14	£525	+5.00%	1,186 2.13%	1,572
Enterprise Software	142	Up 154 places+154	£525	+12.17%	1,109 1.99%	1,674
AI Agents	165	Up 239 places+239	£560	+6.66%	998 1.79%	3,097
Distributed Systems	174	Up 66 places+66	£550	+7.84%	922 1.66%	1,644
Legacy Systems	198	Down 23 places-23	£530	+0.95%	818 1.47%	606
Data Protection Act	216	Down 55 places-55	£450	-5.26%	713 1.28%	84
Data Structures	223	Up 20 places+20	£509	-6.27%	690 1.24%	693
Self-Motivation	284	Down 55 places-55	£500	+11.11%	526 0.95%	1,591
CMDB	285	Up 73 places+73	£520	-0.95%	523 0.94%	192
Operational Technology	290	Up 86 places+86	£575	+7.27%	512 0.92%	634
NHS	293	Up 9 places+9	£450	+5.88%	508 0.91%	761
Virtual Team	299	Down 18 places-18	£525	+5.00%	498 0.90%	996
Security Posture	317	Down 40 places-40	£551	+4.95%	464 0.83%	697
Driving Licence	320	Down 49 places-49	£180	-4.00%	453 0.81%	1,392
Hybrid Cloud	325	Up 4 places+4	£588	+6.81%	445 0.80%	505
Mobile App	338	Down 91 places-91	£490	+0.51%	421 0.76%	749
PKI	346	Down 21 places-21	£550	-	410 0.74%	231
Public Cloud	370	Down 24 places-24	£600	+9.09%	369 0.66%	507
Replication	390	Down 38 places-38	£535	+5.67%	341 0.61%	240
Greenfield Project	393	Down 96 places-96	£575	+4.54%	337 0.61%	264
Life Science	417	Up 5 places+5	£575	-1.87%	304 0.55%	903
Cyber Threat	431	Down 30 places-30	£575	-0.86%	285 0.51%	589
Analytical Mindset	436	Down 163 places-163	£500	-	278 0.50%	397
Algorithms	439	Down 183 places-183	£650	+18.18%	275 0.49%	1,441
Derivative	453	Down 121 places-121	£700	-6.66%	256 0.46%	250
SCADA	458	Down 43 places-43	£550	+2.61%	247 0.44%	708
Foreign Exchange (FX)	463	Down 179 places-179	£700	-6.66%	241 0.43%	328
Mainframe	479	Down 26 places-26	£535	+29.69%	224 0.40%	108
Taxonomies	482	Up 17 places+17	£530	+6.00%	221 0.40%	163
Fixed Income	487	Down 157 places-157	£725	-3.33%	215 0.39%	231
Social Media	491	Down 25 places-25	£349	-7.00%	209 0.38%	653
Private Cloud	494	Down 61 places-61	£586	+1.82%	206 0.37%	225
Enterprise Cloud	497	Up 30 places+30	£569	+26.38%	203 0.36%	227
Low-Code	517	Down 75 places-75	£515	+3.00%	182 0.33%	345
Legacy Applications	519	Down 33 places-33	£527	-0.33%	180 0.32%	93
Security Operations Centre	520	Down 107 places-107	£550	-4.34%	179 0.32%	228
Clustering	522	Down 39 places-39	£575	+21.05%	177 0.32%	109
Web Conferencing	527	Down 25 places-25	£400	+46.78%	172 0.31%	539
Equities	533	Down 182 places-182	£756	+0.73%	166 0.30%	253
Video Conferencing	537	Down 39 places-39	£298	+8.77%	162 0.29%	196
Marketing Technology	542	Down 24 places-24	£500	+0.80%	157 0.28%	460
FMCG	542	Down 62 places-62	£550	+2.32%	157 0.28%	297
Reference Data	545	Down 47 places-47	£550	-8.33%	153 0.28%	179
EPoS	548	Down 104 places-104	£155	-4.69%	150 0.27%	102
IoT	551	Down 100 places-100	£550	-	147 0.26%	809
Robotics	565	Down 35 places-35	£663	+20.45%	132 0.24%	1,356