Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Veeam Software	65	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%	2
Git	54	Down -9 places-9	£450	-2.70%	12 1.78%	21
Software Engineer	43	Up 14 places+14	£525	-	23 3.41%	19
Software Testing	56	Up 9 places+9	£70	-85.26%	10 1.48%	8
Software Engineering	32	Up 18 places+18	£525	-10.63%	34 5.04%	35
Software Delivery	61	Down -7 places-7	£600	+33.33%	5 0.74%	2
D Software Zephyr	63	Up 5 places+5	-	-	3 0.44%
.NET Software Engineer	64	New entry-	£494	-	2 0.30%
Software Developer	58	Up 8 places+8	-	-	8 1.19%
Software Licensing	65	Up 1 place+1	-	-	1 0.15%
Software Architect	65	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%
Black Duck Software	63	New entry-	£683	-	3 0.44%
Enterprise Software	63	Up 2 places+2	£525	-0.94%	3 0.44%	1
Software Deployment	65	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%	2
Software Architecture	64	Up 4 places+4	-	-	2 0.30%	2
C# Software Engineer	65	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.15%
Code Quality (Software Quality)	59	Down -3 places-3	£441	-4.07%	7 1.04%	5
C++ Software Engineer	65	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.15%	2
Lead Software Engineer	65	New entry-	£463	-	1 0.15%
Java Software Engineer	60	New entry-	£600	-	6 0.89%
Azure Software Engineer	60	New entry-	£600	-	6 0.89%
Software Test Engineer	65	New entry-	£70	-	1 0.15%	2
Senior .NET Software Engineer	65	New entry-	£463	-	1 0.15%
Agile Software Development	2	Up 2 places+2	£450	-4.25%	152 22.52%	45
Software as a Service (SaaS)	54	Down -15 places-15	£600	+14.28%	12 1.78%	22
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	56	Down -2 places-2	£650	+10.35%	10 1.48%	6
Senior Software Engineer	64	No change0	£456	-	2 0.30%	10
Principal Software Engineer	57	New entry-	-	-	9 1.33%	3
Check Point Software Technologies	60	Up 8 places+8	£683	-	6 0.89%
Atlassian Software Systems	60	Up 8 places+8	£675	-	6 0.89%	1
Pivotal Software RabbitMQ	65	Up 1 place+1	-	-	1 0.15%	1
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)	62	New entry-	£683	-	4 0.59%	1
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	64	New entry-	-	-	2 0.30%	4
Software Asset Management	64	New entry-	-	-	2 0.30%
Fog Creek Software Trello	65	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.15%	1
Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)	62	New entry-	£683	-	4 0.59%
Software Design Engineer	64	New entry-	£683	-	2 0.30%
git flow	65	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.15%
Open Source Software Development	65	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%
Senior Software Test Engineer	65	New entry-	£70	-	1 0.15%	2