Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	54	Up 43 places+43	£550	+4.76%	2,267 4.14%	424
Onboarding	56	Up 23 places+23	£500	-4.76%	2,213 4.04%	592
Product Ownership	79	Up 9 places+9	£525	+2.43%	1,872 3.41%	437
Management Information System	130	Up 12 places+12	£500	-4.76%	1,194 2.18%	754
Data Centre	132	Up 4 places+4	£525	+5.00%	1,174 2.14%	313
Enterprise Software	158	Up 150 places+150	£525	+14.13%	1,037 1.89%	288
AI Agents	175	Up 254 places+254	£563	+4.65%	946 1.73%	321
Distributed Systems	183	Up 55 places+55	£550	+7.42%	897 1.64%	181
Legacy Systems	199	Down 20 places-20	£530	+0.95%	827 1.51%	99
Data Protection Act	222	Down 55 places-55	£450	-0.82%	709 1.29%	21
Data Structures	231	Up 12 places+12	£519	-5.68%	666 1.21%	94
Self-Motivation	285	Down 48 places-48	£500	+11.11%	523 0.95%	442
Operational Technology	289	Up 108 places+108	£575	+7.27%	517 0.94%	260
CMDB	293	Up 81 places+81	£520	-3.70%	511 0.93%	79
Virtual Team	297	Down 6 places-6	£525	+5.00%	503 0.92%	70
NHS	306	Up 25 places+25	£450	+5.88%	484 0.88%	224
Security Posture	318	Down 20 places-20	£550	+4.76%	460 0.84%	208
Driving Licence	330	Down 36 places-36	£180	-10.00%	430 0.78%	884
Hybrid Cloud	331	Up 6 places+6	£578	+5.00%	429 0.78%	78
Mobile App	337	Down 88 places-88	£476	-4.74%	416 0.76%	111
PKI	353	Down 2 places-2	£556	+1.04%	399 0.73%	84
Public Cloud	380	Down 26 places-26	£600	+11.73%	358 0.65%	72
Greenfield Project	389	Down 89 places-89	£569	+3.40%	347 0.63%	71
Replication	402	Down 33 places-33	£529	+5.70%	326 0.59%	46
Analytical Mindset	436	Down 151 places-151	£500	-	283 0.52%	88
Life Science	437	Down 10 places-10	£575	-	281 0.51%	65
Cyber Threat	441	Down 28 places-28	£581	+0.21%	275 0.50%	190
Algorithms	443	Down 185 places-185	£650	+18.18%	273 0.50%	226
Derivative	458	Down 133 places-133	£700	-6.66%	255 0.47%	23
SCADA	460	Down 41 places-41	£563	+6.07%	252 0.46%	254
Foreign Exchange (FX)	473	Down 189 places-189	£700	-6.66%	237 0.43%	26
Mainframe	483	Down 18 places-18	£535	+29.69%	226 0.41%	27
Taxonomies	491	Up 23 places+23	£530	+6.00%	218 0.40%	14
Fixed Income	494	Down 173 places-173	£725	-3.33%	214 0.39%	21
Private Cloud	503	Down 60 places-60	£590	+2.60%	204 0.37%	44
Social Media	504	Down 30 places-30	£349	-7.00%	203 0.37%	175
Enterprise Cloud	513	Up 29 places+29	£575	+24.32%	193 0.35%	25
Low-Code	521	Down 69 places-69	£515	+2.90%	183 0.33%	117
Equities	527	Down 173 places-173	£755	+0.66%	177 0.32%	10
Legacy Applications	528	Down 36 places-36	£527	-5.04%	176 0.32%	17
Clustering	529	Down 38 places-38	£575	+21.05%	175 0.32%	18
Web Conferencing	531	Down 19 places-19	£400	+42.60%	173 0.32%	62
Security Operations Centre	534	Down 110 places-110	£550	-1.78%	170 0.31%	54
FMCG	543	Down 55 places-55	£550	+2.80%	161 0.29%	115
EPoS	548	Down 80 places-80	£155	-4.69%	156 0.28%	42
Marketing Technology	553	Down 22 places-22	£500	+0.80%	150 0.27%	94
Video Conferencing	553	Down 50 places-50	£298	+8.77%	150 0.27%	90
IoT	556	Down 98 places-98	£550	-	147 0.27%	149
Reference Data	559	Down 54 places-54	£550	-8.33%	144 0.26%	20
Linux Command Line	573	Down 110 places-110	£518	-8.60%	130 0.24%	59