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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	67	Down -5 places-5	-	-	2 0.23%	7
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	14	Down -5 places-5	£533	+11.16%	78 8.90%	104
Amazon Web Services DevOps	66	Down -15 places-15	-	-	3 0.34%	3
Services Manager	67	Down -1 place-1	£500	-20.00%	2 0.23%	11
Amazon Web Services Engineer	57	Down -13 places-13	£700	+47.36%	12 1.37%	8
SAP Data Services	68	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	68	Up 1 place+1	£500	-14.16%	1 0.11%	1
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	62	Down -7 places-7	£463	-5.12%	7 0.80%	29
Field Services Engineer	67	Up 4 places+4	£128	+2.00%	2 0.23%	20
SQL Server Integration Services	67	New entry-	£438	-	2 0.23%	2
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	66	Down -15 places-15	-	-	3 0.34%	3
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	68	No change0	£413	-2.94%	1 0.11%	2
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	66	New entry-	£475	-	3 0.34%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	67	New entry-	-	-	2 0.23%
Microservices	47	Down -6 places-6	£519	+3.75%	22 2.51%	28