Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 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 22.66%	56
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	53	Down -1 place-1	£650	+10.35%	10 1.46%	6
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	61	New entry-	-	-	2 0.29%	4
Open Source Software Development	62	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%
Software Developer	55	Up 10 places+10	-	-	8 1.17%	1
API Development	59	Down -3 places-3	£518	+3.50%	4 0.58%	5
Game Development	59	New entry-	-	-	4 0.58%
Software Deployment	62	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%	2
Web Development	61	Down -1 place-1	£488	-	2 0.29%
Data Development	62	New entry-	£600	-	1 0.15%
Secure Code Development	61	New entry-	£425	-	2 0.29%	6
Development Manager	61	New entry-	£420	-	2 0.29%	9
Feature Driven Development	62	Up 3 places+3	-	-	1 0.15%
Development Analyst	61	New entry-	-	-	2 0.29%
Full-Stack Development	40	Up 15 places+15	£438	-7.89%	23 3.36%	15
Front End Development	51	Up 9 places+9	£425	-15.00%	12 1.75%
Workflow Development	61	Up 4 places+4	-	-	2 0.29%
Software Delivery	58	Down -5 places-5	£600	+33.33%	5 0.73%	5
Dashboard Development	60	No change0	-	-	3 0.44%
Development Consultant	58	New entry-	-	-	5 0.73%