Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Wales

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
NHS	22	No change0	£325	+10.92%	39 5.84%	21
Data Centre	29	Up 7 places+7	£438	+52.17%	31 4.64%	39
Legacy Systems	40	Up 4 places+4	£513	+16.47%	19 2.84%	13
Driving Licence	42	Down 2 places-2	£200	+17.64%	17 2.54%	21
Onboarding	43	Down 7 places-7	£490	+5.37%	16 2.40%	31
Cloud Native	45	Up 3 places+3	£500	+8.10%	14 2.10%	18
Virtual Team	48	Down 8 places-8	-	-	11 1.65%	1
Podcast	50	New entry-	-	-	9 1.35%
Management Information System	50	Down 7 places-7	£800	+173.03%	9 1.35%	25
Web Conferencing	50	New entry-	-	-	9 1.35%
Mobile App	51	Down 10 places-10	£413	+142.64%	8 1.20%	15
Data Structures	52	Down 7 places-7	£475	+46.15%	7 1.05%	3
Security Operations Centre	52	Down 3 places-3	-	-	7 1.05%	3
Cyber Threat	52	New entry-	£800	-	7 1.05%	16
Product Ownership	53	Down 9 places-9	£413	-4.34%	6 0.90%	20
PKI	53	New entry-	£463	-	6 0.90%	2
Data Protection Act	53	Down 13 places-13	£400	+8.47%	6 0.90%	1
Mainframe	54	New entry-	£413	-	5 0.75%	2
Smartphone	54	New entry-	£180	-	5 0.75%	2
Enterprise Software	54	Down 9 places-9	£375	+15.38%	5 0.75%	15
Self-Motivation	54	Down 6 places-6	£375	-14.28%	5 0.75%	22
SCADA	54	New entry-	£468	-	5 0.75%	7
Fibre Optics	55	Down 7 places-7	£200	-0.62%	4 0.60%	2
Low-Code	55	New entry-	£550	-	4 0.60%
Hybrid Cloud	55	New entry-	£670	-	4 0.60%	4
VHDL	55	New entry-	-	-	4 0.60%	9
FPGA	55	New entry-	-	-	4 0.60%	13
Security Posture	55	Down 6 places-6	£538	-23.21%	4 0.60%	4
Operational Technology	55	Down 11 places-11	£468	+39.55%	4 0.60%	4
Digital Wallet	55	New entry-	£413	-	4 0.60%
CMDB	56	New entry-	£800	-	3 0.45%	3
Enterprise Storage	56	New entry-	£550	-	3 0.45%
EPoS	57	Down 8 places-8	£180	+10.42%	2 0.30%
Thin Client	57	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.30%
Housing Association	57	New entry-	-	-	2 0.30%	1
Fat Client	57	New entry-	£525	-	2 0.30%
Manufacturing Execution System	57	New entry-	-	-	2 0.30%	6
AI Agents	57	Down 8 places-8	£298	-60.26%	2 0.30%	12
Life Science	58	Down 9 places-9	-	-	1 0.15%	7
CUDA	58	New entry-	£465	-	1 0.15%
Blog	58	New entry-	£500	-	1 0.15%	26
Social Media	58	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%	21
LIMS	58	New entry-	£475	-	1 0.15%	4
Credit Risk	58	New entry-	£490	-	1 0.15%	4
Public Cloud	58	Down 10 places-10	-	-	1 0.15%	4
Replication	58	Down 9 places-9	£550	+201.36%	1 0.15%	1
Verilog	58	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%	2
Video Conferencing	58	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%	8
FMCG	58	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%	7
Greenfield Project	58	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%	3