Remote IT Contracting Market Trends Analysis

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Contract Job Market Index
DescriptionSort by Demand Rank 6 Months to 12 Aug 2026Rank
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SQL16Down -5 places-5£500-1,535 11.33%1,849
Python17Down -9 places-9£530-3.63%1,530 11.29%2,839
Java31Down -9 places-9£512-6.27%841 6.21%1,204
JavaScript77Down -51 places-51£525-494 3.65%832
PowerShell85Down -12 places-12£520+4.00%434 3.20%386
C#97Down -35 places-35£525+5.00%391 2.89%895
TypeScript105Down -57 places-57£550-8.33%364 2.69%882
Bash136Down -29 places-29£537+6.07%287 2.12%288
Scala240Up 23 places+23£450-10.00%122 0.90%111
PL/SQL242Down -14 places-14£480-4.00%120 0.89%38
Bicep252Up 1 place+1£540+20.00%110 0.81%70
C++260Down -96 places-96£525-16.00%102 0.75%551
Go266Down -82 places-82£600-96 0.71%349
T-SQL280Down -7 places-7£514-6.59%81 0.60%60
Apex Code282Down -26 places-26£575+16.45%79 0.58%61
Shell Script284Down -77 places-77£470-1.05%77 0.57%50
Data Analysis Expressions290Down -8 places-8£450+9.09%71 0.52%43
C297Down -36 places-36£513-2.38%64 0.47%278
Kotlin305Down -53 places-53£490-2.00%56 0.41%164
Ruby311Down -43 places-43£463-2.06%50 0.37%98
R312Down -73 places-73£550+12.24%49 0.36%166
ABAP313Down -53 places-53£550+2.42%48 0.35%24
VBA325Down -36 places-36£488-0.30%36 0.27%31
Kusto Query Language326Down -40 places-40£500-35 0.26%35
Korn329Down -31 places-31£500-11.11%32 0.24%3
Ada331Down -32 places-32--30 0.22%24
JCL332Down -46 places-46£514+34.55%29 0.21%2
PHP335Down -88 places-88£475+11.76%26 0.19%86
Rust336Down -46 places-46£575-25 0.18%166
Perl336Down -76 places-76£400-20.00%25 0.18%46
Groovy337Down -54 places-54£500+17.64%24 0.18%27
Swift340Down -42 places-42£500+25.00%21 0.16%39
COBOL342Down -57 places-57£550+10.00%19 0.14%
VB342Down -51 places-51£425-16.25%19 0.14%15
SOQL343Down -40 places-40£375-23.07%18 0.13%20
VB.NET344Down -38 places-38£529+25.57%17 0.13%9
REXX346Down -49 places-49£484+29.34%15 0.11%1
VB6347Down -41 places-41£425-31.72%14 0.10%1
XPath349Down -42 places-42£530-12 0.089%12
MATLAB350Down -45 places-45£500-9.09%11 0.081%62
Search Processing Language352Down -46 places-46£545-16.23%9 0.066%5
DataWeave352Down -46 places-46£500+5.26%9 0.066%1
ActionScript352Down -47 places-47£625+48.80%9 0.066%57
SPARQL353Down -46 places-46£520+36.84%8 0.059%6
Cypher354Down -46 places-46£550+15.78%7 0.052%6
Embedded C354Down -49 places-49£525-7 0.052%39
ProC355Down -49 places-49£444+47.83%6 0.044%2
SOSL355Down -49 places-49£450-5.26%6 0.044%4
BeanShell355Down -52 places-52£600-6.25%6 0.044%
MUMPS355New entry-£575-6 0.044%