Remote IT Contracting Market Trends Analysis

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Contract Job Market Index
DescriptionSort by Demand Rank 6 Months to 3 Aug 2026Rank
6 Months to
Rank
YoY Change
Median
Daily Rate
Median Daily Rate
YoY Change
Historical
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Jobs Vacancies
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Jobs
Cloud Native51Up 59 places+59£550+4.76%621 4.58%560
Product Ownership75Up 8 places+8£515+8.42%500 3.69%429
Onboarding82Up 10 places+10£510-4.04%481 3.55%718
Management Information System116Up 1 place+1£546+3.92%335 2.47%420
Data Centre129Up 2 places+2£519+2.77%302 2.23%217
Distributed Systems141Up 53 places+53£500-9.09%278 2.05%308
Legacy Systems147Up 13 places+13£525+5.00%266 1.96%119
Data Structures175Down -7 places-7£525-4.54%214 1.58%144
Virtual Team179Up 33 places+33£500+8.10%207 1.53%203
Data Protection Act191Down -15 places-15£406-1.51%187 1.38%32
Enterprise Software198Up 19 places+19£525+5.00%177 1.31%307
AI Agents202Up 86 places+86£625+25.00%168 1.24%422
Security Posture209Up 14 places+14£502-7.45%159 1.17%165
NHS223Up 20 places+20£450+13.92%143 1.06%179
CMDB233Up 26 places+26£500-133 0.98%34
Operational Technology246Up 1 place+1£600+4.34%118 0.87%98
Hybrid Cloud248Up 2 places+2£575-116 0.86%100
Self-Motivation251Down -50 places-50£488-2.50%113 0.83%331
Algorithms264Down -32 places-32£625+25.00%99 0.73%182
Public Cloud265Down -10 places-10£618+17.61%98 0.72%76
Greenfield Project273Down -74 places-74£506-7.95%90 0.66%135
Web Conferencing274Up 20 places+20£331-26.44%89 0.66%69
Derivative278Down -112 places-112£775+3.33%85 0.63%43
Analytical Mindset278Down -13 places-13£545+22.95%85 0.63%109
PKI282Down -37 places-37£550-81 0.60%31
Replication283Down -13 places-13£513+7.89%80 0.59%45
Podcast284Up 26 places+26£515-79 0.58%13
Mainframe285Down -30 places-30£525+16.15%78 0.58%17
Mobile App287Down -78 places-78£475-76 0.56%118
Life Science289Down -26 places-26£475-4.80%74 0.55%176
Fixed Income290Down -183 places-183£750-73 0.54%39
FMCG301Down -22 places-22£550-4.34%62 0.46%70
Social Media303Down -13 places-13£475+126.19%60 0.44%157
Enterprise Cloud306No change0£588+48.17%57 0.42%47
Low-Code308Down -34 places-34£486-7.42%55 0.41%59
Equities314Down -166 places-166£800+3.22%49 0.36%36
Taxonomies316Down -22 places-22£525+5.84%47 0.35%24
Cyber Threat319Down -50 places-50£550+2.32%44 0.32%74
Reference Data319Down -34 places-34£550-2.65%44 0.32%27
PMI319Down -42 places-42£510-2.85%44 0.32%44
Clustering321Down -41 places-41£525-4.54%42 0.31%10
IoT321Down -33 places-33£477-20.50%42 0.31%146
Private Cloud324Down -53 places-53£573-2.46%39 0.29%45
Driving Licence324Down -28 places-28£213-47.85%39 0.29%222
Security Operations Centre325Down -58 places-58£500-13.04%38 0.28%39
Legacy Applications328Down -65 places-65£575-8.00%35 0.26%20
Linux Command Line328Down -56 places-56£470-1.05%35 0.26%24
Cloud Security Posture329Down -23 places-23£600+19.40%34 0.25%15
Marketing Technology330Down -37 places-37£492-24.30%33 0.24%67
Hedge funds332Down -158 places-158£750-31 0.23%36