Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

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	78	Down -15 places-15	£463	-	16 1.31%	6
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	9	Up 2 places+2	£500	-	161 13.19%	66
Amazon Web Services DevOps	91	Down -35 places-35	£500	-3.61%	3 0.25%
Services Manager	88	Down -27 places-27	£538	+26.47%	6 0.49%	4
Amazon Web Services Engineer	80	Down -25 places-25	£500	-2.43%	14 1.15%	4
Amazon Web Services Architect	93	Down -29 places-29	-	-	1 0.082%
Services Director	92	New entry-	£800	-	2 0.16%
Amazon Web Services Developer	85	Down -21 places-21	£476	-7.12%	9 0.74%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	90	Down -28 places-28	£613	+22.50%	4 0.33%	15
SQL Server Integration Services	84	Down -26 places-26	£400	-17.94%	10 0.82%
SQL Server Reporting Services	85	Down -21 places-21	£400	+6.66%	9 0.74%
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	93	New entry-	£625	-	1 0.082%	2
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	91	Down -35 places-35	£500	-3.61%	3 0.25%
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	91	New entry-	-	-	3 0.25%
Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)	93	Down -33 places-33	£295	-39.17%	1 0.082%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	90	New entry-	£519	-	4 0.33%	3
Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services	92	Down -27 places-27	£466	-6.75%	2 0.16%
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)	93	New entry-	£500	-	1 0.082%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	91	Down -26 places-26	£700	-	3 0.25%
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)	91	New entry-	£400	-	3 0.25%	1
Microservices	38	Down -10 places-10	£550	-	60 4.91%	13