Remote IT Contracting Market Trends Analysis

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	46	Up 40 places+40	£554	+5.52%	695 5.07%	273
Onboarding	61	Up 16 places+16	£522	-0.66%	591 4.31%	7,327
Product Ownership	66	Up 15 places+15	£541	+4.08%	571 4.17%	258
Management Information System	100	Up 37 places+37	£510	-7.27%	411 3.00%	325
Distributed Systems	150	Up 39 places+39	£575	+9.52%	287 2.10%	172
Enterprise Software	150	Up 100 places+100	£520	+9.47%	287 2.10%	211
Data Centre	152	Down 18 places-18	£550	+4.76%	285 2.08%	144
AI Agents	159	Up 100 places+100	£600	+15.66%	272 1.99%	298
Legacy Systems	174	Down 21 places-21	£525	+1.94%	249 1.82%	49
Virtual Team	182	Up 23 places+23	£500	-4.76%	232 1.69%	83
Data Structures	188	Down 13 places-13	£525	-3.33%	216 1.58%	83
Data Protection Act	210	Down 27 places-27	£400	-5.88%	186 1.36%	13
CMDB	226	Up 35 places+35	£500	-4.76%	167 1.22%	19
NHS	231	Up 7 places+7	£450	+2.85%	161 1.18%	94
Hybrid Cloud	244	No change0	£581	+11.24%	147 1.07%	38
Security Posture	248	Down 31 places-31	£525	+5.00%	142 1.04%	85
Operational Technology	260	Down 15 places-15	£600	+11.94%	129 0.94%	114
Self-Motivation	263	Down 64 places-64	£488	-5.33%	126 0.92%	209
Social Media	265	Up 40 places+40	£300	+50.00%	124 0.91%	47
Web Conferencing	266	Up 38 places+38	£376	+29.48%	123 0.90%	48
Podcast	277	Up 37 places+37	£515	-	111 0.81%	74
Greenfield Project	281	Down 59 places-59	£500	-2.43%	106 0.77%	95
PKI	282	Down 39 places-39	£573	-8.94%	105 0.77%	22
Replication	293	Down 22 places-22	£530	+11.57%	93 0.68%	33
Life Science	294	Down 11 places-11	£567	+0.71%	92 0.67%	75
Public Cloud	305	Down 45 places-45	£622	+8.17%	81 0.59%	53
Mobile App	308	Down 97 places-97	£475	-6.86%	78 0.57%	94
Cyber Threat	311	Down 41 places-41	£575	-2.95%	75 0.55%	54
Algorithms	312	Down 79 places-79	£650	+18.92%	74 0.54%	144
Enterprise Cloud	314	Down 9 places-9	£588	+48.73%	72 0.53%	21
Derivative	323	Down 106 places-106	£653	-12.93%	63 0.46%	21
Mainframe	324	Down 49 places-49	£525	+16.66%	62 0.45%	15
Security Operations Centre	325	Down 71 places-71	£540	+5.62%	61 0.45%	34
Analytical Mindset	327	Down 84 places-84	£538	+26.47%	59 0.43%	36
Legacy Applications	329	Down 48 places-48	£540	-1.81%	57 0.42%	16
Reference Data	329	Down 36 places-36	£513	-6.81%	57 0.42%	11
FMCG	332	Down 40 places-40	£550	-	54 0.39%	24
Taxonomies	335	Down 33 places-33	£550	+11.78%	51 0.37%	26
Private Cloud	337	Down 58 places-58	£501	-9.00%	49 0.36%	35
Low-Code	337	Down 56 places-56	£520	+1.36%	49 0.36%	48
Marketing Technology	338	Down 38 places-38	£545	+3.80%	48 0.35%	33
IoT	344	Down 60 places-60	£595	-0.83%	42 0.31%	91
SCADA	344	Down 86 places-86	£557	+4.90%	42 0.31%	84
Foreign Exchange (FX)	344	Down 164 places-164	£613	-18.33%	42 0.31%	21
Driving Licence	347	Down 46 places-46	£250	+4.16%	39 0.28%	186
Fixed Income	348	Down 154 places-154	£719	-4.16%	38 0.28%	16
Credit Risk	349	Down 60 places-60	£575	-8.00%	37 0.27%	18
Equities	352	Down 149 places-149	£785	+4.66%	34 0.25%	15
Linux Command Line	353	Down 75 places-75	£475	-7.67%	33 0.24%	21
Clustering	355	Down 66 places-66	£578	+21.76%	31 0.23%	14