Remote IT Contracting Market Trends Analysis

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Contract Job Market Index
DescriptionSort by Demand Rank 6 Months to 27 Jul 2026Rank
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Agile6Down -3 places-3£513-1.44%2,488 18.47%1,305
Stakeholder Management8Up 10 places+10£525-2,023 15.02%1,311
CI/CD9Up 7 places+7£513+2.50%1,787 13.27%969
DevOps13No change0£525+2.43%1,602 11.89%802
Problem-Solving15Down -7 places-7£490-2.00%1,548 11.49%1,371
Migration19No change0£525+5.00%1,418 10.53%356
AI22Up 33 places+33£550-1,289 9.57%1,869
Stakeholder Engagement23Up 20 places+20£530+4.43%1,284 9.53%507
Continuous Improvement24Up 15 places+15£500+1.11%1,279 9.50%1,192
Analytics26Up 3 places+3£525-1,070 7.94%938
Decision-Making28Up 26 places+26£500+1.62%934 6.94%1,052
Data Modelling29Up 27 places+27£500-920 6.83%333
Roadmaps30Up 17 places+17£550-3.71%869 6.45%985
Validation34Up 40 places+40£492-1.60%792 5.88%380
Infrastructure as Code37Up 13 places+13£550+1.85%757 5.62%465
Software Engineering40Down -8 places-8£570-8.80%726 5.39%1,013
Cybersecurity41Up 17 places+17£573+8.89%720 5.35%645
Business Intelligence42Down -2 places-2£500-709 5.26%432
Test Automation49Down -1 place-1£475+4.39%628 4.66%342
Project Management50Down -23 places-23£500+4.82%616 4.57%451
Change Management52No change0£525+7.36%609 4.52%269
ITIL53Up 9 places+9£500+7.52%607 4.51%236
Scrum54Down -9 places-9£500+4.93%597 4.43%286
Project Delivery55Up 2 places+2£500-2.91%587 4.36%496
ERP56Up 37 places+37£550-580 4.31%328
Data Pipeline59Up 76 places+76£525+5.00%573 4.25%254
Microservices60Down -9 places-9£525+5.00%563 4.18%365
Workshop Facilitation63Up 60 places+60£500+1.01%553 4.11%187
Containerisation65Down -6 places-6£525-541 4.02%268
ETL66Up 16 places+16£500-540 4.01%160
User Acceptance Testing67Up 8 places+8£500+1.62%539 4.00%164
Data Governance69Up 21 places+21£525+2.04%526 3.91%266
Data Engineering72Up 67 places+67£525-510 3.79%271
Technical Leadership77Up 55 places+55£575+2.22%488 3.62%530
Mentoring78Down -11 places-11£520-0.95%484 3.59%1,001
Data Protection79Up 17 places+17£500+6.66%482 3.58%170
Risk Management80Down -27 places-27£550-4.34%479 3.56%401
Observability83Up 95 places+95£525-2.23%441 3.27%391
Data Migration84Down -1 place-1£525-438 3.25%139
Machine Learning85Up 4 places+4£600+9.09%436 3.24%625
Platform Engineering90Up 134 places+134£539+0.32%409 3.04%306
Service Management93Up 5 places+5£500-395 2.93%193
Workflow94Up 37 places+37£496+4.42%394 2.93%309
User Experience95Down -30 places-30£500+4.16%391 2.90%357
ITSM96Up 67 places+67£500+5.26%390 2.90%133
Requirements Gathering98Up 7 places+7£500+2.09%387 2.87%214
Cloud Security105Up 2 places+2£560+1.81%363 2.70%199
Digital Transformation Programme106Up 83 places+83£500-2.20%356 2.64%244
Event-Driven108Up 76 places+76£550-346 2.57%189
Infrastructure Engineering109Up 55 places+55£538+2.38%343 2.55%219