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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	66	Down -21 places-21	£475	-	9 0.97%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	11	Up 8 places+8	£425	-10.52%	91 9.80%	41
Amazon Web Services DevOps	72	Down -26 places-26	-	-	3 0.32%
Services Manager	74	Down -27 places-27	£500	+3.62%	1 0.11%	5
Amazon Web Services Engineer	65	Down -20 places-20	£475	-	10 1.08%	2
SAP Data Services	74	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services Developer	74	Down -22 places-22	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	74	Down -25 places-25	£500	-2.91%	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	68	Down -18 places-18	£425	-15.00%	7 0.75%	4
SQL Server Integration Services	70	New entry-	£475	-	5 0.54%
SQL Server Reporting Services	74	Down -20 places-20	£580	+10.47%	1 0.11%
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	72	Down -26 places-26	-	-	3 0.32%
Field Services Engineer	73	Down -20 places-20	£128	+2.00%	2 0.22%	2
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	73	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.22%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	74	Down -21 places-21	£475	-	1 0.11%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	73	New entry-	-	-	2 0.22%
Microservices	39	Down -1 place-1	£438	-12.50%	36 3.88%	13