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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	71	Down -12 places-12	£463	-	14 1.46%	5
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	7	Up 1 place+1	£500	-	144 14.98%	58
Amazon Web Services DevOps	82	Down -30 places-30	£500	-3.61%	3 0.31%
Services Manager	82	Down -25 places-25	£438	+2.94%	3 0.31%	4
Amazon Web Services Engineer	73	Down -22 places-22	£500	-2.43%	12 1.25%	4
Amazon Web Services Architect	84	Down -23 places-23	-	-	1 0.10%
Services Director	84	New entry-	£850	-	1 0.10%
Amazon Web Services Developer	76	Down -16 places-16	£476	-7.12%	9 0.94%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	81	Down -23 places-23	£613	+22.50%	4 0.42%	14
SQL Server Integration Services	79	Down -18 places-18	£400	-	6 0.62%
SQL Server Reporting Services	82	New entry-	£400	-	3 0.31%
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	82	Down -30 places-30	£500	-3.61%	3 0.31%
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	83	New entry-	-	-	2 0.21%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	81	New entry-	£519	-	4 0.42%	3
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)	84	New entry-	£500	-	1 0.10%
Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services	84	Down -23 places-23	£350	-30.00%	1 0.10%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	82	Down -21 places-21	£700	-	3 0.31%
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)	82	New entry-	£400	-	3 0.31%	1
Microservices	30	Down -5 places-5	£550	-	57 5.93%	9