Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	53	Up 44 places+44	£550	+4.76%	2,342 4.19%	2,479
Onboarding	58	Up 21 places+21	£500	-2.05%	2,254 4.04%	4,317
Product Ownership	76	Up 9 places+9	£526	+2.53%	1,922 3.44%	2,097
Management Information System	128	Up 16 places+16	£500	-4.96%	1,239 2.22%	2,331
Data Centre	133	Up 16 places+16	£525	+5.00%	1,186 2.12%	1,712
Enterprise Software	146	Up 157 places+157	£525	+10.52%	1,114 1.99%	1,686
AI Agents	171	Up 242 places+242	£560	+4.28%	1,002 1.79%	3,136
Distributed Systems	179	Up 63 places+63	£550	+7.73%	927 1.66%	1,651
Legacy Systems	203	Down 26 places-26	£530	+0.95%	821 1.47%	615
Data Protection Act	223	Down 60 places-60	£450	-2.17%	716 1.28%	92
Data Structures	227	Up 18 places+18	£513	-5.61%	701 1.26%	719
Self-Motivation	283	Down 55 places-55	£500	+11.11%	527 0.94%	1,867
CMDB	285	Up 85 places+85	£520	-0.95%	523 0.94%	215
NHS	290	Up 19 places+19	£450	+5.88%	515 0.92%	816
Operational Technology	292	Up 95 places+95	£575	+4.54%	512 0.92%	639
Virtual Team	299	Down 9 places-9	£525	+5.00%	498 0.89%	1,009
Security Posture	314	Down 28 places-28	£551	+4.95%	465 0.83%	705
Driving Licence	320	Down 44 places-44	£180	-2.17%	456 0.82%	1,868
Hybrid Cloud	327	Up 10 places+10	£588	+6.81%	443 0.79%	519
Mobile App	337	Down 91 places-91	£476	-2.30%	425 0.76%	765
PKI	345	Down 13 places-13	£550	-	412 0.74%	231
Public Cloud	369	Down 17 places-17	£600	+9.09%	374 0.67%	510
Replication	390	Down 28 places-28	£535	+4.39%	343 0.61%	243
Greenfield Project	395	Down 90 places-90	£575	+4.54%	338 0.61%	264
Life Science	416	Up 18 places+18	£575	-1.87%	306 0.55%	1,022
Cyber Threat	431	Down 18 places-18	£575	-0.86%	286 0.51%	637
Analytical Mindset	438	Down 159 places-159	£500	-	277 0.50%	449
Algorithms	440	Down 178 places-178	£650	+18.18%	275 0.49%	1,534
Derivative	456	Down 115 places-115	£700	-6.66%	258 0.46%	255
SCADA	463	Down 37 places-37	£550	+2.61%	247 0.44%	716
Foreign Exchange (FX)	470	Down 176 places-176	£700	-6.66%	239 0.43%	333
Mainframe	484	Down 22 places-22	£535	+29.69%	225 0.40%	107
Taxonomies	487	Up 23 places+23	£530	+6.00%	222 0.40%	178
Fixed Income	490	Down 151 places-151	£725	-3.33%	217 0.39%	231
Social Media	495	Down 17 places-17	£349	-7.00%	209 0.37%	804
Private Cloud	498	Down 54 places-54	£586	+1.82%	206 0.37%	227
Enterprise Cloud	500	Up 38 places+38	£563	+25.00%	204 0.37%	237
Legacy Applications	518	Down 21 places-21	£529	+0.04%	185 0.33%	94
Low-Code	520	Down 69 places-69	£517	+3.40%	183 0.33%	367
Security Operations Centre	521	Down 99 places-99	£550	-4.34%	181 0.32%	238
Clustering	523	Down 29 places-29	£575	+21.05%	178 0.32%	124
Web Conferencing	528	Down 15 places-15	£408	+49.83%	173 0.31%	626
Video Conferencing	532	Down 23 places-23	£300	+9.78%	169 0.30%	230
Equities	534	Down 173 places-173	£755	+0.70%	167 0.30%	253
FMCG	544	Down 54 places-54	£550	+1.14%	157 0.28%	287
Marketing Technology	544	Down 18 places-18	£500	+0.40%	157 0.28%	477
Reference Data	545	Down 36 places-36	£550	-8.33%	156 0.28%	183
EPoS	550	Down 97 places-97	£155	-4.69%	151 0.27%	159
IoT	554	Down 92 places-92	£550	-	147 0.26%	875
Credit Risk	568	Down 84 places-84	£600	-	133 0.24%	140