Contract General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	66	Down 6 places-6	£469	-18.43%	125 3.49%	60
Product Ownership	68	Up 35 places+35	£465	-7.00%	123 3.44%	29
Cloud Native	77	Up 13 places+13	£525	-0.94%	111 3.10%	23
Management Information System	80	Up 12 places+12	£410	-21.90%	106 2.96%	63
Enterprise Software	111	Up 23 places+23	£459	-16.54%	70 1.96%	16
Data Centre	122	Down 51 places-51	£550	+15.78%	59 1.65%	19
Operational Technology	124	Down 6 places-6	£550	-8.33%	57 1.59%	18
Virtual Team	140	Down 12 places-12	£460	-2.43%	41 1.15%	4
Self-Motivation	140	Down 45 places-45	£613	+36.11%	41 1.15%	41
Legacy Systems	141	Down 37 places-37	£515	-6.36%	40 1.12%	9
Data Structures	143	Down 14 places-14	£488	-11.36%	38 1.06%	11
Data Protection Act	145	Down 46 places-46	£450	-	36 1.01%	8
Driving Licence	149	Down 45 places-45	£155	-35.27%	32 0.89%	82
Distributed Systems	151	Down 35 places-35	£590	+12.38%	30 0.84%	5
Hybrid Cloud	152	Down 40 places-40	£500	-23.07%	29 0.81%	9
CMDB	152	Down 17 places-17	£444	-1.38%	29 0.81%	5
SCADA	153	Down 61 places-61	£450	-10.00%	28 0.78%	33
AI Agents	154	New entry-	£573	-	27 0.75%	14
Public Cloud	157	Down 32 places-32	£655	+23.58%	24 0.67%	8
Analytical Mindset	161	Down 38 places-38	£525	+81.66%	20 0.56%	8
Private Cloud	162	Down 29 places-29	£680	+18.26%	19 0.53%	2
Mobile App	162	Down 35 places-35	£475	+10.14%	19 0.53%	17
Cyber Threat	163	Down 29 places-29	£625	+4.16%	18 0.50%	18
Security Posture	164	Down 54 places-54	£513	+2.50%	17 0.48%	13
Renewable Energy	165	Down 26 places-26	-	-	16 0.45%	5
EPoS	166	Down 34 places-34	£155	-4.69%	15 0.42%	5
IoT	166	Down 39 places-39	£569	+13.75%	15 0.42%	18
Linux Command Line	167	Down 48 places-48	£470	+48.57%	14 0.39%	1
Legacy Applications	167	Down 31 places-31	£513	-15.46%	14 0.39%	3
Taxonomies	168	Down 31 places-31	£435	-27.50%	13 0.36%	3
Life Science	168	New entry-	-	-	13 0.36%	4
Data Fabric	169	Down 30 places-30	£610	-6.87%	12 0.34%
Low-Code	169	Down 32 places-32	£500	-	12 0.34%	3
Smartphone	169	New entry-	£225	-	12 0.34%
BYOD	170	New entry-	£500	-	11 0.31%
Web Conferencing	170	New entry-	-	-	11 0.31%	4
NHS	170	Down 35 places-35	£400	-	11 0.31%	18
Embedded Systems	170	Down 30 places-30	-	-	11 0.31%	16
Podcast	171	New entry-	-	-	10 0.28%	1
Freedom of Information	172	Down 32 places-32	£258	-55.21%	9 0.25%	1
Replication	172	Down 69 places-69	£448	-5.78%	9 0.25%	3
Security Operations Centre	172	Down 43 places-43	£540	-20.00%	9 0.25%	8
Mainframe	172	Down 33 places-33	£575	+15.28%	9 0.25%	6
Distributed Denial-of-Service	173	New entry-	£455	-	8 0.22%	2
Enterprise Cloud	174	Down 38 places-38	£670	+83.56%	7 0.20%	4
Animation	174	Down 51 places-51	-	-	7 0.20%
Industrial Internet of Things	174	Down 34 places-34	£550	+22.22%	7 0.20%	1
Autonomous Agent	174	New entry-	£656	-	7 0.20%
Greenfield Project	174	Down 36 places-36	£675	+33.33%	7 0.20%	18
Legacy Code	174	New entry-	£500	-	7 0.20%