Contract Process & Methodology Statistics in the West Midlands

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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
Agile	3	Up 2 places+2	£469	-6.20%	699 19.58%	335
Stakeholder Management	5	Up 7 places+7	£475	-11.83%	552 15.46%	229
Continuous Improvement	8	Up 14 places+14	£470	-6.00%	464 13.00%	430
Problem-Solving	11	Down 7 places-7	£450	-7.73%	456 12.77%	502
Migration	13	Up 5 places+5	£500	-4.76%	404 11.32%	123
DevOps	16	Down 8 places-8	£490	-6.66%	345 9.66%	156
CI/CD	18	Down 7 places-7	£470	-10.47%	342 9.58%	193
Analytics	24	Down 3 places-3	£477	-7.37%	286 8.01%	275
AI	25	Up 44 places+44	£525	-7.48%	278 7.79%	437
Stakeholder Engagement	27	Up 5 places+5	£500	-4.76%	272 7.62%	121
Test Automation	28	Up 16 places+16	£450	-12.62%	264 7.40%	140
Scrum	30	Up 4 places+4	£475	-6.86%	253 7.09%	74
Validation	31	Up 28 places+28	£453	-8.66%	241 6.75%	206
Data Modelling	32	Up 10 places+10	£470	-12.96%	237 6.64%	117
Decision-Making	34	Up 20 places+20	£482	-3.70%	223 6.25%	234
ETL	38	Up 18 places+18	£470	-8.83%	209 5.85%	83
Technical Leadership	40	Up 72 places+72	£575	+9.52%	184 5.15%	148
Mentoring	42	Up 34 places+34	£460	-11.96%	176 4.93%	273
Business Intelligence	44	Down 14 places-14	£467	-11.04%	174 4.87%	175
Roadmaps	46	Up 4 places+4	£500	-4.76%	167 4.68%	245
User Acceptance Testing	49	Up 47 places+47	£475	-	150 4.20%	52
Generative AI	50	Up 82 places+82	£575	+63.70%	149 4.17%	46
Data Pipeline	51	Up 8 places+8	£473	-7.75%	143 4.01%	68
ERP	52	Up 26 places+26	£525	-4.54%	142 3.98%	121
Data Migration	54	Up 20 places+20	£450	-18.18%	138 3.87%	52
Customer Service	54	Up 10 places+10	£250	+16.27%	138 3.87%	146
Collaborative Working	57	Up 19 places+19	£450	-10.00%	132 3.70%	106
Microservices	58	Up 9 places+9	£481	-7.94%	131 3.67%	56
CRM	59	Up 25 places+25	£461	+1.09%	130 3.64%	135
Cybersecurity	60	Down 9 places-9	£500	-6.54%	129 3.61%	264
Data Integration	61	Up 5 places+5	£470	-10.47%	128 3.59%	45
Coaching	62	Up 32 places+32	£460	-10.50%	127 3.56%	174
ITIL	64	Down 24 places-24	£465	+16.25%	124 3.47%	86
Containerisation	65	Down 24 places-24	£525	-2.77%	123 3.45%	47
Data Protection	66	Up 2 places+2	£450	-10.00%	122 3.42%	58
Project Delivery	68	Down 16 places-16	£481	-6.40%	119 3.33%	168
Service Management	68	Down 15 places-15	£525	+1.94%	119 3.33%	69
Workshop Facilitation	68	Up 43 places+43	£463	-12.11%	119 3.33%	50
Digital Transformation Programme	70	Up 52 places+52	£488	-2.50%	117 3.28%	48
Software Engineering	72	Up 24 places+24	£472	-13.28%	113 3.17%	239
Data Governance	73	No change0	£500	-9.09%	112 3.14%	98
Data Engineering	75	Up 29 places+29	£475	-13.79%	108 3.03%	66
User Experience	76	Down 9 places-9	£475	-5.00%	107 3.00%	105
Observability	79	Up 13 places+13	£558	+3.24%	104 2.91%	64
Root Cause Analysis	80	Up 8 places+8	£450	-14.28%	103 2.89%	106
Test Strategy	81	Down 11 places-11	£466	-9.61%	101 2.83%	45
Infrastructure Engineering	82	Up 17 places+17	£488	+8.33%	100 2.80%	62
Sprint Planning	83	Up 21 places+21	£469	-4.28%	98 2.75%	26
Project Management	84	Down 53 places-53	£550	+10.88%	97 2.72%	137
User Stories	84	Up 23 places+23	£450	-	97 2.72%	43