Remote IT Contracting Market Trends Analysis

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Architect	12	Up 7 places+7	£600	-4.00%	1,660 12.18%	338
Senior	16	Up 6 places+6	£550	-4.34%	1,616 11.86%	819
Developer	22	Down 13 places-13	£500	-0.99%	1,447 10.62%	337
Analyst	24	Down 10 places-10	£475	-	1,358 9.96%	1,107
Lead	26	Up 2 places+2	£572	+4.00%	1,126 8.26%	458
Consultant	29	Down 9 places-9	£550	-	1,031 7.56%	293
Business Analyst	52	Down 8 places-8	£500	-	644 4.72%	86
Data Engineer	77	Up 31 places+31	£500	-	539 3.95%	106
Project Manager	79	Down 20 places-20	£545	+3.80%	534 3.92%	110
Solutions Architect	84	Down 7 places-7	£615	+2.50%	509 3.73%	106
DevOps Engineer	131	Down 22 places-22	£513	+2.65%	327 2.40%	83
Azure Engineer	149	Up 31 places+31	£500	+5.26%	292 2.14%	34
Software Engineer	156	Down 62 places-62	£550	-26.66%	283 2.08%	219
Senior Developer	162	Down 34 places-34	£525	-4.54%	266 1.95%	87
Data Analyst	173	Down 35 places-35	£500	+17.64%	247 1.81%	214
Data Architect	176	Up 34 places+34	£638	+2.00%	240 1.76%	47
Cloud Engineer	183	Up 37 places+37	£540	+8.00%	228 1.67%	58
AWS Engineer	185	Down 61 places-61	£550	-4.34%	222 1.63%	29
Designer	186	Down 27 places-27	£450	-3.22%	218 1.60%	72
Network Engineer	197	Down 57 places-57	£463	+2.88%	205 1.50%	56
Administrator	197	Down 27 places-27	£437	+1.62%	205 1.50%	40
SAP Consultant	199	Down 91 places-91	£540	-4.00%	203 1.49%	22
Technical Architect	200	Up 5 places+5	£600	-5.88%	201 1.47%	52
Infrastructure Engineer	201	Down 2 places-2	£538	+30.30%	199 1.46%	56
Security Architect	205	Down 14 places-14	£600	-11.11%	195 1.43%	28
Senior Manager	209	Up 15 places+15	£600	-	190 1.39%	103
Java Developer	209	Down 104 places-104	£522	-5.09%	190 1.39%	32
Security Engineer	221	Down 37 places-37	£540	+8.00%	173 1.27%	61
Platform Engineer	233	Up 4 places+4	£550	+1.85%	161 1.18%	45
Delivery Manager	239	Up 2 places+2	£534	-2.95%	154 1.13%	38
Artificial Intelligence Engineer	239	Down 8 places-8	£600	+10.49%	154 1.13%	62
IT Manager	242	Down 42 places-42	£548	+4.28%	151 1.11%	70
User Researcher	251	Up 28 places+28	£492	+10.56%	139 1.02%	23
Python Developer	252	Down 49 places-49	£550	-4.34%	138 1.01%	16
Product Manager	254	Down 22 places-22	£544	+6.09%	136 1.00%	61
AWS Architect	261	Down 14 places-14	£588	-4.47%	129 0.95%	7
Programme Manager	265	Down 54 places-54	£700	-	125 0.92%	14
Python Engineer	268	Down 115 places-115	£600	-14.28%	122 0.90%	19
Senior Analyst	271	Down 45 places-45	£500	-4.30%	117 0.86%	75
Technical Leader	273	Down 27 places-27	£555	-5.53%	115 0.84%	47
Senior Architect	275	Down 27 places-27	£575	-16.36%	113 0.83%	41
Full-Stack Developer	279	Down 97 places-97	£475	-5.00%	109 0.80%	29
Software Developer	282	Down 21 places-21	£500	-3.84%	106 0.78%	46
Tester	282	Down 119 places-119	£500	+11.11%	106 0.78%	89
IT Support	285	Down 51 places-51	£225	+18.42%	103 0.76%	46
Coordinator	290	Down 56 places-56	£375	+39.92%	98 0.72%	33
Oracle Consultant	291	Down 49 places-49	£600	-4.00%	97 0.71%	19
Enterprise Architect	293	Down 42 places-42	£679	-3.10%	95 0.70%	22
Cloud Architect	293	Down 51 places-51	£623	-2.73%	95 0.70%	14
Security Consultant	293	Down 51 places-51	£550	+10.00%	95 0.70%	34