Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 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%	2,293 4.15%	508
Onboarding	56	Up 21 places+21	£500	-3.38%	2,228 4.03%	827
Product Ownership	77	Up 6 places+6	£525	+2.43%	1,893 3.42%	504
Management Information System	128	Up 16 places+16	£500	-6.89%	1,228 2.22%	659
Data Centre	132	Up 13 places+13	£525	+5.00%	1,175 2.13%	377
Enterprise Software	150	Up 158 places+158	£525	+14.00%	1,076 1.95%	360
AI Agents	170	Up 252 places+252	£560	+5.41%	974 1.76%	510
Distributed Systems	179	Up 69 places+69	£550	+7.84%	907 1.64%	267
Legacy Systems	200	Down 18 places-18	£530	+0.95%	814 1.47%	151
Data Protection Act	219	Down 52 places-52	£450	-5.26%	717 1.30%	26
Data Structures	228	Up 24 places+24	£511	-7.13%	677 1.22%	146
CMDB	281	Up 88 places+88	£520	-0.95%	526 0.95%	49
Self-Motivation	282	Down 42 places-42	£500	+11.11%	525 0.95%	464
Operational Technology	292	Up 95 places+95	£575	+7.27%	509 0.92%	225
Virtual Team	297	Down 3 places-3	£525	+5.00%	500 0.90%	120
NHS	299	Up 17 places+17	£450	+1.92%	498 0.90%	248
Security Posture	319	Down 29 places-29	£563	+7.14%	461 0.83%	165
Driving Licence	328	Down 50 places-50	£180	-4.00%	443 0.80%	883
Hybrid Cloud	329	Up 9 places+9	£588	+6.81%	442 0.80%	96
Mobile App	340	Down 86 places-86	£478	-2.53%	423 0.77%	134
PKI	353	Down 9 places-9	£550	-	403 0.73%	85
Public Cloud	378	Down 24 places-24	£600	+9.09%	364 0.66%	111
Greenfield Project	398	Down 88 places-88	£575	+4.54%	337 0.61%	86
Replication	403	Down 41 places-41	£529	+5.80%	330 0.60%	61
Life Science	419	Up 16 places+16	£575	-0.86%	302 0.55%	145
Cyber Threat	436	Down 22 places-22	£575	-0.86%	281 0.51%	301
Analytical Mindset	437	Down 153 places-153	£500	-	280 0.51%	102
Algorithms	437	Down 170 places-170	£650	+18.18%	280 0.51%	287
Derivative	458	Down 121 places-121	£700	-6.66%	253 0.46%	53
SCADA	460	Down 34 places-34	£555	+3.54%	249 0.45%	281
Foreign Exchange (FX)	468	Down 176 places-176	£700	-6.66%	239 0.43%	56
Mainframe	483	Down 18 places-18	£535	+29.69%	223 0.40%	36
Taxonomies	485	Up 27 places+27	£530	+6.00%	218 0.39%	26
Fixed Income	488	Down 155 places-155	£725	-3.33%	212 0.38%	51
Social Media	493	Down 19 places-19	£349	-7.00%	207 0.37%	149
Private Cloud	494	Down 50 places-50	£586	+1.82%	206 0.37%	59
Enterprise Cloud	498	Up 41 places+41	£575	+27.77%	202 0.37%	40
Low-Code	517	Down 61 places-61	£515	+3.00%	182 0.33%	79
Security Operations Centre	519	Down 95 places-95	£550	-3.08%	179 0.32%	61
Legacy Applications	521	Down 26 places-26	£529	-3.15%	177 0.32%	24
Clustering	526	Down 33 places-33	£575	+21.05%	172 0.31%	27
Web Conferencing	526	Down 11 places-11	£400	+46.78%	172 0.31%	86
Equities	531	Down 176 places-176	£755	+0.70%	166 0.30%	46
FMCG	539	Down 48 places-48	£550	+2.80%	158 0.29%	115
Marketing Technology	541	Down 10 places-10	£500	+0.80%	156 0.28%	81
Video Conferencing	541	Down 32 places-32	£260	-4.93%	156 0.28%	81
EPoS	544	Down 89 places-89	£155	-4.69%	153 0.28%	44
Reference Data	548	Down 39 places-39	£550	-8.33%	149 0.27%	31
IoT	551	Down 89 places-89	£550	-	146 0.26%	200
Linux Command Line	567	Down 97 places-97	£521	-6.50%	130 0.24%	63