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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	70	Down -23 places-23	£475	-	5 0.55%	7
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	13	Up 3 places+3	£425	-10.52%	81 8.90%	58
Amazon Web Services DevOps	72	Down -29 places-29	-	-	3 0.33%	1
Services Manager	74	Down -27 places-27	£500	-2.91%	1 0.11%	2
Amazon Web Services Engineer	63	Down -21 places-21	£538	+13.15%	12 1.32%	1
SAP Data Services	74	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services Developer	74	Down -21 places-21	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	74	Down -24 places-24	£500	-2.91%	1 0.11%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	70	Down -21 places-21	£425	-15.00%	5 0.55%	8
Field Services Engineer	73	Down -19 places-19	£128	+2.00%	2 0.22%	4
SQL Server Integration Services	70	New entry-	£438	-	5 0.55%	2
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	74	Down -20 places-20	£413	+37.50%	1 0.11%	2
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	72	Down -29 places-29	-	-	3 0.33%
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	73	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.22%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	74	Down -22 places-22	£475	-	1 0.11%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	73	New entry-	-	-	2 0.22%
Microservices	43	Down -3 places-3	£438	-12.50%	32 3.52%	17