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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Agile Software Development	2	Up 2 places+2	£450	-4.25%	160 22.01%	47
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	58	Down -8 places-8	£666	+13.11%	8 1.10%	10
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	64	New entry-	-	-	2 0.28%	4
Open Source Software Development	65	New entry-	-	-	1 0.14%
Software Developer	58	Up 5 places+5	-	-	8 1.10%	6
API Development	60	Down -8 places-8	£518	+3.50%	6 0.83%	1
Game Development	62	New entry-	-	-	4 0.55%
Software Deployment	64	New entry-	£500	-	2 0.28%
Web Development	64	Down -7 places-7	£488	-2.50%	2 0.28%	5
Data Development	65	New entry-	£600	-	1 0.14%
Secure Code Development	64	Down -4 places-4	£425	-7.35%	2 0.28%	2
Development Manager	64	New entry-	£420	-	2 0.28%	9
Feature Driven Development	65	Down -2 places-2	-	-	1 0.14%
Development Analyst	64	New entry-	-	-	2 0.28%
Full-Stack Development	42	Up 2 places+2	£438	-12.50%	24 3.30%	12
Front End Development	54	Up 2 places+2	£425	-15.00%	12 1.65%	2
Workflow Development	64	Down -1 place-1	-	-	2 0.28%
Software Delivery	59	Down -9 places-9	£556	+23.44%	7 0.96%	4
Dashboard Development	63	Down -5 places-5	-	-	3 0.41%	2
Development Consultant	61	New entry-	-	-	5 0.69%