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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 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%	160 22.70%	37
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	59	Down -8 places-8	£650	+10.35%	10 1.42%	4
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	67	New entry-	-	-	2 0.28%	4
Open Source Software Development	68	New entry-	-	-	1 0.14%
Software Developer	61	Up 3 places+3	-	-	8 1.13%	2
API Development	63	Down -9 places-9	£518	+3.50%	6 0.85%	2
Software Deployment	67	New entry-	£500	-	2 0.28%
Game Development	65	New entry-	-	-	4 0.57%
Web Development	67	Down -9 places-9	£488	-2.50%	2 0.28%
Data Development	68	New entry-	£600	-	1 0.14%
Secure Code Development	67	New entry-	£425	-	2 0.28%	7
Development Manager	67	New entry-	£420	-	2 0.28%	6
Feature Driven Development	68	Down -4 places-4	-	-	1 0.14%
Development Analyst	67	New entry-	-	-	2 0.28%
Full-Stack Development	45	Up 7 places+7	£438	-12.50%	24 3.40%	8
Front End Development	57	Up 2 places+2	£425	-15.00%	12 1.70%
Workflow Development	67	Down -3 places-3	-	-	2 0.28%
Software Delivery	64	Down -12 places-12	£556	+23.44%	5 0.71%	1
Dashboard Development	66	Down -7 places-7	-	-	3 0.43%
Development Consultant	64	New entry-	-	-	5 0.71%