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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	72	Down -24 places-24	-	-	4 0.44%
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	16	Down -2 places-2	£425	-10.52%	73 8.11%	40
Amazon Web Services DevOps	73	Down -32 places-32	-	-	3 0.33%
Services Manager	75	Down -24 places-24	£500	-14.16%	1 0.11%	5
Amazon Web Services Engineer	65	Down -26 places-26	£619	+30.26%	11 1.22%	1
SAP Data Services	75	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services Developer	75	Down -21 places-21	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	75	Down -21 places-21	£500	-14.16%	1 0.11%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	71	Down -24 places-24	£425	-12.82%	5 0.56%	8
Field Services Engineer	74	Down -19 places-19	£128	+2.00%	2 0.22%	6
SQL Server Integration Services	71	New entry-	£438	-	5 0.56%	1
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	75	Down -21 places-21	£413	+2.16%	1 0.11%	2
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	73	Down -32 places-32	-	-	3 0.33%
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	75	New entry-	£350	-	1 0.11%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	74	New entry-	-	-	2 0.22%
Microservices	51	Down -10 places-10	£438	-12.50%	25 2.78%	10