Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics

Use this option to select the period over which the statistics are calculated.

There is a choice between 3 and 6 months to 3 November 2026 with year-over-year comparisons.

Exclude

Use this option to exclude results with historical job ad aggregates falling below the selected threshold during the period.

When used in combination with column sorting, this option can be used to display results of greater statistical significance.

Results 1 - 50 of 146

Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 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%	2,270 4.13%	785
Onboarding	55	Up 24 places+24	£500	-4.76%	2,231 4.06%	1,244
Product Ownership	73	Up 13 places+13	£525	+2.43%	1,891 3.44%	692
Management Information System	126	Up 15 places+15	£500	-4.76%	1,220 2.22%	1,152
Data Centre	130	Up 7 places+7	£525	+5.00%	1,178 2.14%	549
Enterprise Software	149	Up 145 places+145	£525	+10.52%	1,053 1.91%	539
AI Agents	168	Up 241 places+241	£563	+4.65%	971 1.77%	794
Distributed Systems	177	Up 61 places+61	£550	+7.52%	905 1.65%	433
Legacy Systems	198	Down 23 places-23	£530	+0.95%	818 1.49%	174
Data Protection Act	216	Down 51 places-51	£450	-5.26%	722 1.31%	26
Data Structures	229	Up 12 places+12	£513	-6.81%	665 1.21%	242
Self-Motivation	278	Down 46 places-46	£500	+11.11%	525 0.95%	594
CMDB	280	Up 70 places+70	£520	-0.95%	517 0.94%	96
Operational Technology	281	Up 93 places+93	£575	+7.27%	513 0.93%	407
NHS	287	Up 20 places+20	£450	+1.92%	500 0.91%	321
Virtual Team	288	Down 6 places-6	£525	+5.00%	499 0.91%	170
Security Posture	309	Down 23 places-23	£550	+5.26%	459 0.83%	356
Hybrid Cloud	318	Up 3 places+3	£575	+4.54%	436 0.79%	146
Driving Licence	319	Down 40 places-40	£180	-9.88%	434 0.79%	1,045
Mobile App	330	Down 85 places-85	£484	-1.76%	415 0.75%	299
PKI	340	Down 10 places-10	£556	+1.04%	401 0.73%	121
Public Cloud	362	Down 26 places-26	£600	+10.59%	364 0.66%	160
Greenfield Project	376	Down 87 places-87	£575	+4.54%	344 0.63%	189
Replication	386	Down 38 places-38	£529	+5.70%	331 0.60%	88
Life Science	419	Down 7 places-7	£575	-	285 0.52%	216
Cyber Threat	422	Down 24 places-24	£575	-0.86%	282 0.51%	290
Analytical Mindset	426	Down 149 places-149	£500	-	278 0.51%	141
Algorithms	426	Down 172 places-172	£650	+18.18%	278 0.51%	434
Derivative	443	Down 125 places-125	£700	-6.66%	252 0.46%	65
SCADA	444	Down 43 places-43	£563	+4.99%	251 0.46%	313
Foreign Exchange (FX)	453	Down 173 places-173	£700	-6.66%	240 0.44%	96
Mainframe	465	Down 16 places-16	£529	+28.24%	227 0.41%	59
Taxonomies	472	Up 26 places+26	£530	+6.00%	220 0.40%	36
Fixed Income	474	Down 158 places-158	£725	-3.33%	217 0.39%	73
Private Cloud	480	Down 52 places-52	£590	+2.60%	207 0.38%	78
Social Media	483	Down 27 places-27	£349	-7.00%	204 0.37%	274
Enterprise Cloud	488	Up 34 places+34	£575	+31.42%	199 0.36%	65
Low-Code	504	Down 62 places-62	£513	+2.50%	182 0.33%	176
Security Operations Centre	505	Down 101 places-101	£550	-4.34%	181 0.33%	134
Equities	511	Down 170 places-170	£755	+0.70%	175 0.32%	70
Legacy Applications	511	Down 36 places-36	£529	-3.15%	175 0.32%	36
Clustering	514	Down 39 places-39	£575	+21.05%	172 0.31%	28
Web Conferencing	514	Down 16 places-16	£400	+45.45%	172 0.31%	110
FMCG	526	Down 54 places-54	£550	+3.28%	159 0.29%	134
EPoS	530	Down 79 places-79	£155	-4.69%	155 0.28%	63
Marketing Technology	534	Down 20 places-20	£500	+0.80%	151 0.27%	140
Video Conferencing	534	Down 46 places-46	£274	+0.09%	151 0.27%	157
IoT	538	Down 98 places-98	£550	-	147 0.27%	245
Reference Data	539	Down 51 places-51	£550	-8.33%	146 0.27%	49
Linux Command Line	554	Down 104 places-104	£518	-8.60%	131 0.24%	91