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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	68	Down -19 places-19	£475	-	7 0.76%	5
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	15	Up 7 places+7	£425	-10.52%	84 9.13%	55
Amazon Web Services DevOps	72	Down -27 places-27	-	-	3 0.33%	1
Services Manager	74	Down -24 places-24	£500	+3.62%	1 0.11%	2
Amazon Web Services Engineer	63	Down -19 places-19	£538	+13.15%	12 1.30%	1
SAP Data Services	74	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services Developer	74	Down -19 places-19	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	74	Down -22 places-22	£500	-2.91%	1 0.11%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	70	Down -19 places-19	£425	-15.00%	5 0.54%	6
SQL Server Integration Services	70	New entry-	£438	-	5 0.54%	2
Field Services Engineer	73	Down -17 places-17	£128	+2.00%	2 0.22%	3
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	72	Down -27 places-27	-	-	3 0.33%
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	73	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.22%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	74	Down -20 places-20	£475	-	1 0.11%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	73	New entry-	-	-	2 0.22%
Microservices	41	Up 1 place+1	£438	-12.50%	34 3.70%	18