Remote IT Contracting Market Trends Analysis

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Stakeholder Management	3	Up 13 places+13	£540	+2.85%	2,863 21.08%	783
Agile	6	Down 3 places-3	£500	-4.76%	2,622 19.30%	829
CI/CD	9	Up 2 places+2	£518	+1.47%	1,992 14.67%	647
DevOps	12	No change0	£525	-	1,645 12.11%	600
Problem-Solving	13	Down 3 places-3	£500	-	1,637 12.05%	1,131
Migration	17	Up 3 places+3	£538	+4.62%	1,529 11.26%	312
AI	18	Up 19 places+19	£555	+0.90%	1,492 10.98%	2,104
Stakeholder Engagement	19	Up 6 places+6	£525	-	1,476 10.87%	371
Continuous Improvement	20	Up 10 places+10	£500	-	1,470 10.82%	779
Analytics	24	Up 8 places+8	£535	+1.90%	1,133 8.34%	542
Decision-Making	26	Up 28 places+28	£525	+5.00%	1,054 7.76%	838
Roadmaps	27	Up 14 places+14	£575	+4.54%	1,023 7.53%	535
Data Modelling	29	Up 19 places+19	£525	-2.23%	932 6.86%	241
Validation	30	Up 26 places+26	£500	-	922 6.79%	390
Infrastructure as Code	33	Up 7 places+7	£550	+2.80%	898 6.61%	321
Software Engineering	34	Down 1 place-1	£550	-8.33%	864 6.36%	642
Cybersecurity	39	Up 8 places+8	£550	-	785 5.78%	545
Test Automation	42	Up 2 places+2	£475	-5.00%	717 5.28%	325
Business Intelligence	46	Down 4 places-4	£525	+5.00%	684 5.04%	309
Project Delivery	46	Up 5 places+5	£500	-4.76%	684 5.04%	317
Technical Leadership	49	Up 70 places+70	£600	+8.59%	653 4.81%	397
ITIL	52	Up 11 places+11	£500	+7.81%	628 4.62%	235
Workshop Facilitation	52	Up 44 places+44	£500	-	628 4.62%	163
Project Management	54	Down 19 places-19	£517	+3.40%	620 4.56%	342
User Acceptance Testing	55	Up 19 places+19	£500	-	615 4.53%	139
Microservices	56	Down 3 places-3	£525	-	613 4.51%	191
Scrum	58	Down 12 places-12	£492	-1.60%	600 4.42%	178
Observability	60	Up 73 places+73	£550	-	587 4.32%	222
Data Governance	62	Up 33 places+33	£538	-2.27%	584 4.30%	228
Change Management	66	Down 4 places-4	£525	+5.00%	563 4.14%	177
Mentoring	67	Down 12 places-12	£525	-	560 4.12%	667
Risk Management	68	Down 4 places-4	£556	-7.33%	558 4.11%	206
ERP	73	Down 3 places-3	£550	+4.76%	545 4.01%	234
Containerisation	73	Down 16 places-16	£530	+0.95%	545 4.01%	192
Digital Transformation Programme	74	Up 80 places+80	£500	-3.38%	543 4.00%	123
Data Pipeline	75	Up 24 places+24	£525	-	540 3.98%	196
Data Engineering	76	Up 44 places+44	£525	-	537 3.95%	180
Requirements Gathering	79	Up 22 places+22	£500	-	516 3.80%	163
Data Migration	82	Down 4 places-4	£536	-0.27%	504 3.71%	110
ETL	85	Down 8 places-8	£500	-4.30%	490 3.61%	151
Data Protection	86	Up 11 places+11	£500	+6.38%	479 3.53%	112
Event-Driven	86	Up 78 places+78	£552	-2.68%	479 3.53%	124
Service Management	90	Up 8 places+8	£525	+5.00%	457 3.36%	182
Translating Business Requirements	91	Up 40 places+40	£550	+2.32%	455 3.35%	187
Customer Service	93	Up 55 places+55	£325	-4.12%	442 3.25%	280
ITSM	94	Up 61 places+61	£510	+2.00%	440 3.24%	135
Machine Learning	95	Down 22 places-22	£575	+4.54%	434 3.20%	367
Platform Engineering	96	Up 94 places+94	£550	+1.85%	428 3.15%	195
Workflow	98	Up 27 places+27	£538	+7.50%	407 3.00%	199
Cloud Security	99	Up 13 places+13	£560	+6.66%	406 2.99%	142