Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Mar 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Agile Software Development	5	-1	£600	+9.09%	271 17.62%	99
Embedded Software Development	94	-	£698	-	1 0.065%	4
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	80	-26	£750	+53.84%	15 0.98%	12
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	94	-	£375	-	1 0.065%
Android Software Development	92	-	£740	-	3 0.20%	5
Software Developer	90	-22	£550	-	5 0.33%	6
C# Software Developer	94	-	£525	-	1 0.065%
Java Software Developer	93	-	£600	-	2 0.13%
API Development	93	-32	£291	-41.50%	2 0.13%
Senior Software Developer	94	-	£600	-	1 0.065%
Software Deployment	94	-	-	-	1 0.065%	5
Senior Java Software Developer	94	-	£600	-	1 0.065%
Secure Code Development	90	-29	£600	+14.01%	5 0.33%	4
Business Development	94	-26	-	-	1 0.065%	37
Head of Development	91	-	-	-	4 0.26%
Development Roadmap	93	-25	£263	-	2 0.13%
Full-Stack Development	76	-19	£410	-22.82%	19 1.24%	14
Front End Development	79	-15	£513	-	16 1.04%	3
Software Delivery	82	-17	£483	-25.69%	13 0.85%
Dashboard Development	94	-28	£525	-16.00%	1 0.065%	4