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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
Git	19	Down -6 places-6	£510	-18.40%	9 4.59%	12
Software Engineer	10	Up 7 places+7	£535	+10.30%	18 9.18%	6
Software Testing	23	Down -6 places-6	£600	+48.14%	5 2.55%	7
Software Engineering	7	Up 5 places+5	£570	+16.80%	22 11.22%	15
GCP Software Engineer	25	Down -7 places-7	£500	+3.09%	3 1.53%
Software Delivery	26	New entry-	-	-	2 1.02%	1
Software Developer	26	New entry-	£600	-	2 1.02%	7
Software Architect	25	New entry-	£600	-	3 1.53%
Software Architecture	25	New entry-	£600	-	3 1.53%	1
Code Quality (Software Quality)	21	Down -7 places-7	£570	+42.50%	7 3.57%	3
C++ Software Engineer	27	New entry-	-	-	1 0.51%
PLC Software Engineer	23	New entry-	-	-	5 2.55%
Java Software Engineer	26	Down -9 places-9	£535	+10.30%	2 1.02%
Java Software Architect	25	New entry-	£600	-	3 1.53%
Cloud Software Engineer	27	Down -9 places-9	£500	+3.09%	1 0.51%
Agile Software Development	9	Down -3 places-3	£475	+1.60%	20 10.20%	22
Software as a Service (SaaS)	25	New entry-	£450	-	3 1.53%	12
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	20	Down -2 places-2	£585	-	8 4.08%	5
Principal Software Engineer	27	New entry-	-	-	1 0.51%
Developer/Software Engineer	26	New entry-	£600	-	2 1.02%
Atlassian Software Systems	26	New entry-	£300	-	2 1.02%
Siemens PLM Software Teamcenter	27	New entry-	-	-	1 0.51%
Software Development Engineer	25	New entry-	-	-	3 1.53%
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	27	New entry-	£450	-	1 0.51%
Progress Software Corporation	27	New entry-	£460	-	1 0.51%	1
Research Software Engineer	26	New entry-	-	-	2 1.02%