Remote IT Contracting Market Trends Analysis

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Contract Job Market Index
DescriptionSort by Demand Rank 6 Months to 17 Sep 2026Rank
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Jobs
Cloud Native43Up 57 places+57£550+7.36%659 4.85%1,057
Onboarding65Up 20 places+20£525-541 3.98%1,426
Product Ownership71Up 11 places+11£525+5.00%519 3.82%878
Management Information System107Up 31 places+31£500-9.09%365 2.69%896
Distributed Systems144Up 57 places+57£560+6.66%282 2.07%708
Data Centre145Down -6 places-6£522+2.35%280 2.06%498
Legacy Systems161Up 5 places+5£525+2.43%245 1.80%212
Enterprise Software172Up 60 places+60£525-2.23%226 1.66%607
Virtual Team175Up 45 places+45£500+4.71%223 1.64%489
Data Structures177Down -2 places-2£515-5.17%219 1.61%336
AI Agents178Up 108 places+108£600+29.72%218 1.60%954
Data Protection Act189Down -9 places-9£400-5.88%196 1.44%69
CMDB207Up 49 places+49£500-172 1.27%59
Security Posture226Down -7 places-7£514-6.54%148 1.09%279
NHS232Up 14 places+14£450+13.92%142 1.04%339
Hybrid Cloud242Up 4 places+4£588+6.81%132 0.97%270
Operational Technology247Down -2 places-2£600+9.09%127 0.93%175
Web Conferencing252Up 50 places+50£376-1.31%121 0.89%158
Self-Motivation257Down -54 places-54£494-1.25%116 0.85%670
Podcast261Up 55 places+55£515-112 0.82%68
Social Media270Up 34 places+34£401+95.36%103 0.76%277
Greenfield Project275Down -60 places-60£500-4.76%98 0.72%206
Public Cloud278Down -11 places-11£610+17.87%95 0.70%182
PKI286Down -30 places-30£570+3.63%87 0.64%103
Replication287Down -9 places-9£522+9.89%86 0.63%88
Algorithms288Down -46 places-46£638+27.50%85 0.63%533
Life Science291Down -12 places-12£529-3.81%82 0.60%418
Derivative298Down -109 places-109£753+0.33%74 0.54%111
Mobile App300Down -89 places-89£475-1.29%72 0.53%248
Analytical Mindset301Down -44 places-44£575+39.05%71 0.52%182
Mainframe303Down -36 places-36£525+16.66%69 0.51%37
Enterprise Cloud308Up 1 place+1£588+59.64%64 0.47%55
FMCG313Down -26 places-26£550+22.22%59 0.43%71
Low-Code314Down -36 places-36£500-4.76%58 0.43%131
Cyber Threat314Down -45 places-45£565-2.54%58 0.43%189
Private Cloud322Down -41 places-41£501-12.86%50 0.37%122
Security Operations Centre324Down -61 places-61£500-10.71%48 0.35%82
Legacy Applications324Down -45 places-45£550+1.38%48 0.35%51
Driving Licence327Down -25 places-25£250-38.65%45 0.33%314
IoT327Down -36 places-36£525-12.50%45 0.33%296
Taxonomies329Down -26 places-26£550+11.73%43 0.32%86
Marketing Technology332Down -30 places-30£523-16.40%40 0.29%170
Clustering332Down -41 places-41£550+15.78%40 0.29%42
Equities333Down -166 places-166£900+16.12%39 0.29%84
Reference Data335Down -40 places-40£495-11.21%37 0.27%56
Linux Command Line338Down -61 places-61£470-6.00%34 0.25%49
Fixed Income338Down -200 places-200£825+10.00%34 0.25%116
SCADA340Down -83 places-83£550+3.67%32 0.24%164
PMI340Down -57 places-57£540+12.50%32 0.24%116
Foreign Exchange (FX)342Down -184 places-184£575-23.33%30 0.22%158