Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	52	Up 41 places+41	£550	+4.76%	2,262 4.10%	2,515
Onboarding	54	Up 24 places+24	£500	-4.76%	2,171 3.94%	3,616
Product Ownership	78	Up 10 places+10	£525	+5.00%	1,842 3.34%	2,005
Data Centre	127	Up 2 places+2	£525	+5.00%	1,200 2.18%	1,508
Management Information System	133	Up 2 places+2	£500	-4.85%	1,156 2.10%	2,025
Enterprise Software	162	Up 138 places+138	£525	+5.00%	987 1.79%	1,601
AI Agents	176	Up 253 places+253	£575	+9.52%	924 1.68%	2,718
Distributed Systems	186	Up 46 places+46	£550	+4.76%	889 1.61%	1,477
Legacy Systems	198	Down 27 places-27	£530	+0.95%	832 1.51%	500
Data Protection Act	223	Down 64 places-64	£438	-6.66%	720 1.31%	67
Data Structures	233	Up 5 places+5	£511	-7.13%	676 1.23%	638
Operational Technology	282	Up 108 places+108	£575	+4.54%	528 0.96%	673
Self-Motivation	290	Down 58 places-58	£500	+11.11%	512 0.93%	1,600
CMDB	297	Up 67 places+67	£520	-2.34%	499 0.91%	188
Virtual Team	300	Down 18 places-18	£515	+2.99%	492 0.89%	942
Security Posture	317	Down 28 places-28	£550	+4.76%	466 0.85%	654
NHS	322	Up 9 places+9	£450	+5.88%	460 0.83%	628
Hybrid Cloud	339	Down 7 places-7	£588	+6.81%	423 0.77%	525
Driving Licence	340	Down 51 places-51	£180	-10.55%	422 0.77%	1,446
Mobile App	342	Down 99 places-99	£495	+1.02%	420 0.76%	687
PKI	355	Down 3 places-3	£550	-	402 0.73%	239
Greenfield Project	389	Down 99 places-99	£575	+4.54%	345 0.63%	232
Public Cloud	392	Down 51 places-51	£600	+11.73%	342 0.62%	450
Replication	398	Down 34 places-34	£525	+7.69%	332 0.60%	197
Analytical Mindset	423	Down 138 places-138	£500	+3.09%	292 0.53%	396
Algorithms	437	Down 184 places-184	£650	+18.18%	277 0.50%	1,368
Life Science	441	Down 23 places-23	£551	-4.13%	272 0.49%	751
Cyber Threat	445	Down 41 places-41	£581	+0.21%	267 0.48%	440
Derivative	450	Down 136 places-136	£700	-6.66%	262 0.48%	221
SCADA	455	Down 49 places-49	£550	+4.76%	254 0.46%	754
Foreign Exchange (FX)	468	Down 192 places-192	£700	-6.66%	240 0.44%	307
Mainframe	479	Down 33 places-33	£535	+29.69%	227 0.41%	100
Taxonomies	485	Up 26 places+26	£530	+6.00%	220 0.40%	138
Fixed Income	490	Down 182 places-182	£725	-3.33%	215 0.39%	200
Social Media	502	Down 34 places-34	£386	-9.11%	203 0.37%	645
Low-Code	507	Down 59 places-59	£500	-	198 0.36%	316
Private Cloud	513	Down 76 places-76	£581	+1.04%	192 0.35%	238
Enterprise Cloud	517	Up 15 places+15	£569	+19.73%	188 0.34%	212
Equities	524	Down 179 places-179	£755	+0.66%	181 0.33%	219
Clustering	528	Down 43 places-43	£566	+19.15%	177 0.32%	103
Web Conferencing	530	Down 25 places-25	£400	+38.88%	175 0.32%	493
Legacy Applications	535	Down 54 places-54	£527	-5.89%	168 0.30%	85
FMCG	538	Down 64 places-64	£550	+1.14%	165 0.30%	263
Security Operations Centre	541	Down 120 places-120	£550	-4.34%	161 0.29%	179
EPoS	549	Down 87 places-87	£155	-4.69%	153 0.28%	100
Video Conferencing	553	Down 57 places-57	£274	+0.09%	149 0.27%	191
IoT	555	Down 106 places-106	£550	-	147 0.27%	778
Marketing Technology	556	Down 33 places-33	£500	+0.80%	146 0.26%	370
Linux Command Line	569	Down 105 places-105	£500	-15.25%	133 0.24%	184
Reference Data	572	Down 76 places-76	£550	-8.33%	130 0.24%	140