Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Agile Software Development	5	-2	£600	+9.09%	278 17.57%	100
Embedded Software Development	98	-	£698	-	1 0.063%	6
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	84	-29	£750	+53.84%	15 0.95%	8
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	98	-	£375	-	1 0.063%
Android Software Development	96	-	£740	-	3 0.19%	3
Software Developer	94	-25	£550	-	5 0.32%	5
C# Software Developer	98	-	£525	-	1 0.063%
Java Software Developer	97	-	£600	-	2 0.13%
API Development	97	-36	£291	-34.42%	2 0.13%
Senior Software Developer	98	-	£600	-	1 0.063%
Software Deployment	98	-31	-	-	1 0.063%	5
Senior Java Software Developer	98	-	£600	-	1 0.063%
Secure Code Development	94	-32	£600	+14.01%	5 0.32%	6
Business Development	96	-27	£775	+58.06%	3 0.19%	43
Head of Development	95	-	-	-	4 0.25%	1
Development Roadmap	97	-28	£263	-	2 0.13%
Full-Stack Development	80	-21	£410	-22.82%	19 1.20%	16
Front End Development	83	-18	£513	-	16 1.01%	3
Software Delivery	86	-21	£483	-11.37%	13 0.82%
Dashboard Development	98	-32	£525	-16.00%	1 0.063%	3