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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	75	Down 12 places-12	-	-	2 0.23%	3
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	16	Down 6 places-6	£525	+8.69%	80 9.14%	108
Amazon Web Services DevOps	74	Down 22 places-22	-	-	3 0.34%	4
Services Manager	75	Down 8 places-8	£500	-20.00%	2 0.23%	20
Amazon Web Services Engineer	65	Down 20 places-20	£700	+47.36%	12 1.37%	8
SAP Data Services	76	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	76	Down 6 places-6	£500	-14.16%	1 0.11%	1
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	70	Down 14 places-14	£463	-5.12%	7 0.80%	23
Field Services Engineer	75	Down 3 places-3	£128	+2.00%	2 0.23%	31
SQL Server Integration Services	75	New entry-	£438	-	2 0.23%	6
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	74	Down 22 places-22	-	-	3 0.34%	4
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	76	Down 7 places-7	£413	-2.94%	1 0.11%	2
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	74	New entry-	£475	-	3 0.34%	1
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	75	New entry-	-	-	2 0.23%
Microservices	55	Down 13 places-13	£519	+3.75%	22 2.51%	24