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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Git	24	Down -7 places-7	£510	+29.11%	11 3.56%	9
Software Engineer	9	Up 6 places+6	£548	+9.50%	29 9.39%	8
Software Engineering	5	Up 1 place+1	£555	+12.28%	42 13.59%	13
Software Testing	28	Down -12 places-12	£585	+44.44%	7 2.27%	1
GCP Software Engineer	32	Down -13 places-13	£500	+3.09%	3 0.97%
Software Delivery	33	New entry-	-	-	2 0.65%	1
Software Developer	24	New entry-	£600	-	11 3.56%	4
Software Architect	32	New entry-	£600	-	3 0.97%	1
Software Architecture	32	New entry-	£600	-	3 0.97%	1
Code Quality (Software Quality)	28	Down -14 places-14	£570	+14.00%	7 2.27%	2
PLC Software Engineer	30	New entry-	-	-	5 1.62%
Java Software Engineer	23	Down -5 places-5	£538	+10.82%	12 3.88%
Java Software Developer	26	New entry-	£600	-	9 2.91%
Cloud Software Engineer	34	Down -15 places-15	£500	+3.09%	1 0.32%
Java Software Architect	32	New entry-	£600	-	3 0.97%
Agile Software Development	9	No change0	£505	+4.12%	29 9.39%	10
Software as a Service (SaaS)	28	New entry-	£450	-	7 2.27%	3
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	25	Down -6 places-6	£565	+41.25%	10 3.24%	3
Senior Software Engineer	34	New entry-	£525	-	1 0.32%	2
Atlassian Software Systems	33	New entry-	£300	-	2 0.65%
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	34	New entry-	£450	-	1 0.32%
Siemens PLM Software Teamcenter	34	New entry-	-	-	1 0.32%
Software Development Engineer	32	New entry-	-	-	3 0.97%
Developer/Software Engineer	24	New entry-	£600	-	11 3.56%
Progress Software Corporation	32	New entry-	£460	-	3 0.97%
Research Software Engineer	33	New entry-	-	-	2 0.65%