Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Apr 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%	277 17.29%	100
Embedded Software Development	96	-	£698	-	1 0.062%	6
Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)	82	-27	£750	+53.84%	15 0.94%	8
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	96	-	£375	-	1 0.062%
Android Software Development	94	-	£740	-	3 0.19%	3
Software Developer	92	-23	£550	-	5 0.31%	5
C# Software Developer	96	-	£525	-	1 0.062%
Java Software Developer	95	-	£600	-	2 0.12%
API Development	95	-34	£291	-34.42%	2 0.12%
Senior Software Developer	96	-	£600	-	1 0.062%
Software Deployment	96	-30	-	-	1 0.062%	5
Senior Java Software Developer	96	-	£600	-	1 0.062%
Secure Code Development	91	-29	£600	+14.01%	6 0.37%	6
Business Development	94	-25	£775	+58.06%	3 0.19%	43
Head of Development	93	-	-	-	4 0.25%	1
Development Roadmap	95	-26	£263	-	2 0.12%
Full-Stack Development	77	-18	£416	-21.64%	20 1.25%	16
Front End Development	82	-17	£525	-	15 0.94%	3
Software Delivery	84	-19	£492	-9.81%	13 0.81%
Dashboard Development	96	-30	£525	-16.00%	1 0.062%	3