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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	69	Down -23 places-23	£475	-	5 0.55%	3
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	13	Up 3 places+3	£425	-10.52%	81 8.90%	133
Amazon Web Services DevOps	71	Down -30 places-30	-	-	3 0.33%	1
Services Manager	73	Down -26 places-26	£500	-10.31%	1 0.11%	7
Amazon Web Services Engineer	62	Down -23 places-23	£538	+13.15%	12 1.32%	5
SAP Data Services	73	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services Developer	73	Down -21 places-21	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	73	Down -23 places-23	£500	-10.31%	1 0.11%	5
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	69	Down -23 places-23	£425	-12.82%	5 0.55%	44
Field Services Engineer	72	Down -19 places-19	£128	+2.00%	2 0.22%	4
SQL Server Integration Services	69	New entry-	£438	-	5 0.55%	3
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	73	Down -20 places-20	£413	+37.50%	1 0.11%	2
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	71	Down -30 places-30	-	-	3 0.33%	1
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	72	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.22%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	73	Down -24 places-24	£475	-	1 0.11%	2
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	72	New entry-	-	-	2 0.22%
Microservices	42	Down -3 places-3	£438	-12.50%	32 3.52%	25