Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 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%	161 22.18%	48
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	61	Down -8 places-8	£650	+10.35%	9 1.24%	7
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	68	New entry-	-	-	2 0.28%	4
Open Source Software Development	69	New entry-	-	-	1 0.14%
Software Developer	62	Up 3 places+3	-	-	8 1.10%	3
API Development	64	Down -9 places-9	£518	+3.50%	6 0.83%	1
Game Development	66	New entry-	-	-	4 0.55%
Software Deployment	68	New entry-	£500	-	2 0.28%
Web Development	68	Down -9 places-9	£488	-2.50%	2 0.28%	2
Data Development	69	New entry-	£600	-	1 0.14%
Secure Code Development	68	Down -6 places-6	£425	-7.35%	2 0.28%	4
Development Manager	68	New entry-	£420	-	2 0.28%	12
Feature Driven Development	69	Down -4 places-4	-	-	1 0.14%
Development Analyst	68	New entry-	-	-	2 0.28%
Full-Stack Development	45	No change0	£438	-12.50%	25 3.44%	12
Front End Development	58	No change0	£425	-15.00%	12 1.65%	1
Workflow Development	68	Down -3 places-3	-	-	2 0.28%
Software Delivery	64	Down -12 places-12	£556	+23.44%	6 0.83%	3
Dashboard Development	67	Down -7 places-7	-	-	3 0.41%	1
Development Consultant	65	New entry-	-	-	5 0.69%