Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Agile Software Development	1	Up 3 places+3	£450	-4.25%	155 22.79%	57
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	55	Down -3 places-3	£650	+10.35%	10 1.47%	6
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	63	New entry-	-	-	2 0.29%	4
Open Source Software Development	64	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%
Software Developer	57	Up 8 places+8	-	-	8 1.18%
API Development	61	Down -5 places-5	£518	+3.50%	4 0.59%	5
Game Development	61	New entry-	-	-	4 0.59%
Software Deployment	64	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%	2
Web Development	63	Down -3 places-3	£488	-	2 0.29%	1
Data Development	64	New entry-	£600	-	1 0.15%
Secure Code Development	63	New entry-	£425	-	2 0.29%	6
Development Manager	63	New entry-	£420	-	2 0.29%	10
Feature Driven Development	64	Up 1 place+1	-	-	1 0.15%
Development Analyst	63	New entry-	-	-	2 0.29%
Full-Stack Development	42	Up 13 places+13	£438	-7.89%	23 3.38%	13
Front End Development	53	Up 7 places+7	£425	-15.00%	12 1.76%
Workflow Development	63	Up 2 places+2	-	-	2 0.29%
Software Delivery	60	Down -7 places-7	£600	+33.33%	5 0.74%	5
Dashboard Development	62	Down -2 places-2	-	-	3 0.44%
Development Consultant	60	New entry-	-	-	5 0.74%