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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cisco Engineer	18	Down -8 places-8	-	-	1 1.92%	1
Automation Engineer	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.92%
Site Engineer	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.92%	2
DevOps Engineer	18	Down -7 places-7	-	-	1 1.92%
Software Engineer	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.92%
Network Engineer	7	Up 3 places+3	-	-	12 23.08%	3
Mobile Engineer	15	Down -4 places-4	£575	-14.81%	4 7.69%	2
Gen AI Engineer	18	New entry-	£590	-	1 1.92%
Quality Engineer	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.92%
Senior Cisco Engineer	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.92%
Technical Engineer	18	New entry-	£215	-	1 1.92%	2
Microsoft Engineer	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.92%
Operations Engineer	18	New entry-	£215	-	1 1.92%
Data Centre Engineer	18	New entry-	£215	-	1 1.92%
AI Engineer	18	New entry-	£590	-	1 1.92%
Site Reliability Engineer	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.92%	2
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.92%
Technical Operations Engineer	18	New entry-	£215	-	1 1.92%
Core Network Engineer	15	New entry-	-	-	4 7.69%
Data Centre Operations Engineer	18	New entry-	£215	-	1 1.92%