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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	67	Down -20 places-20	£475	-	9 0.97%	6
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	14	Up 8 places+8	£425	-10.52%	86 9.30%	89
Amazon Web Services DevOps	73	Down -27 places-27	-	-	3 0.32%	2
Services Manager	75	Down -26 places-26	£500	+3.62%	1 0.11%	3
Amazon Web Services Engineer	65	Down -20 places-20	£506	+6.57%	11 1.19%	3
SAP Data Services	75	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%	2
Amazon Web Services Developer	75	Down -21 places-21	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	75	Down -24 places-24	£500	-2.91%	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	69	Down -18 places-18	£425	-15.00%	7 0.76%	36
SQL Server Integration Services	71	New entry-	£438	-	5 0.54%	4
Field Services Engineer	74	Down -19 places-19	£128	+2.00%	2 0.22%	1
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	73	Down -27 places-27	-	-	3 0.32%	1
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	74	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.22%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	75	Down -21 places-21	£475	-	1 0.11%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	74	New entry-	-	-	2 0.22%
Microservices	40	Down -1 place-1	£438	-12.50%	36 3.89%	23