Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	54	Up 41 places+41	£550	+4.76%	2,260 4.13%	1,069
Onboarding	56	Up 21 places+21	£500	-4.76%	2,218 4.06%	1,598
Product Ownership	77	Up 7 places+7	£525	+2.94%	1,867 3.41%	859
Management Information System	127	Up 14 places+14	£500	-4.76%	1,210 2.21%	1,243
Data Centre	130	Up 7 places+7	£525	+5.00%	1,175 2.15%	745
Enterprise Software	154	Up 145 places+145	£525	+12.17%	1,043 1.91%	749
AI Agents	174	Up 239 places+239	£560	+4.18%	955 1.75%	1,128
Distributed Systems	183	Up 55 places+55	£550	+7.52%	900 1.65%	666
Legacy Systems	203	Down 27 places-27	£530	+0.95%	816 1.49%	239
Data Protection Act	220	Down 56 places-56	£450	-5.26%	717 1.31%	37
Data Structures	233	Up 8 places+8	£519	-5.68%	661 1.21%	373
Self-Motivation	284	Down 50 places-50	£500	+11.11%	523 0.96%	742
CMDB	287	Up 71 places+71	£520	-0.95%	514 0.94%	109
Operational Technology	290	Up 91 places+91	£575	+7.27%	508 0.93%	397
Virtual Team	296	Down 11 places-11	£525	+5.00%	498 0.91%	288
NHS	299	Up 13 places+13	£450	+1.92%	494 0.90%	348
Security Posture	320	Down 32 places-32	£551	+5.45%	460 0.84%	280
Hybrid Cloud	329	Down 4 places-4	£575	+4.54%	434 0.79%	196
Driving Licence	332	Down 51 places-51	£180	-10.00%	427 0.78%	1,001
Mobile App	341	Down 96 places-96	£475	-4.04%	411 0.75%	386
PKI	353	Down 16 places-16	£556	+1.04%	396 0.72%	131
Public Cloud	377	Down 35 places-35	£600	+10.59%	360 0.66%	209
Greenfield Project	387	Down 94 places-94	£575	+4.54%	344 0.63%	264
Replication	398	Down 42 places-42	£528	+5.60%	328 0.60%	108
Life Science	427	Down 10 places-10	£575	-	282 0.52%	341
Cyber Threat	430	Down 28 places-28	£575	-0.86%	278 0.51%	329
Analytical Mindset	431	Down 153 places-153	£513	+2.50%	277 0.51%	193
Algorithms	431	Down 178 places-178	£650	+18.18%	277 0.51%	628
SCADA	447	Down 39 places-39	£563	+6.03%	252 0.46%	338
Derivative	448	Down 126 places-126	£700	-6.66%	251 0.46%	125
Foreign Exchange (FX)	461	Down 180 places-180	£700	-6.66%	238 0.44%	179
Mainframe	471	Down 17 places-17	£532	+28.96%	226 0.41%	67
Taxonomies	479	Up 24 places+24	£530	+6.00%	218 0.40%	56
Fixed Income	483	Down 163 places-163	£725	-3.33%	213 0.39%	150
Private Cloud	489	Down 56 places-56	£590	+2.60%	206 0.38%	92
Social Media	491	Down 31 places-31	£349	-7.00%	204 0.37%	358
Enterprise Cloud	500	Up 29 places+29	£575	+29.57%	195 0.36%	90
Low-Code	515	Down 68 places-68	£513	+2.50%	180 0.33%	166
Equities	519	Down 171 places-171	£755	+0.66%	176 0.32%	131
Security Operations Centre	520	Down 112 places-112	£550	-4.34%	175 0.32%	99
Legacy Applications	520	Down 38 places-38	£529	-3.81%	175 0.32%	48
Clustering	523	Down 43 places-43	£575	+21.05%	172 0.31%	43
Web Conferencing	523	Down 20 places-20	£400	+45.45%	172 0.31%	160
FMCG	536	Down 59 places-59	£550	+3.28%	159 0.29%	138
EPoS	540	Down 84 places-84	£155	-4.69%	155 0.28%	65
Marketing Technology	544	Down 25 places-25	£500	+0.80%	151 0.28%	200
Video Conferencing	546	Down 53 places-53	£274	+0.09%	149 0.27%	130
IoT	549	Down 104 places-104	£550	-	145 0.27%	332
Reference Data	552	Down 59 places-59	£550	-8.33%	142 0.26%	75
Linux Command Line	563	Down 107 places-107	£518	-10.00%	131 0.24%	112