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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	68	Down -22 places-22	£475	-	9 0.97%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	14	Up 5 places+5	£425	-10.52%	90 9.72%	50
Amazon Web Services DevOps	74	Down -26 places-26	-	-	3 0.32%
Services Manager	76	Down -28 places-28	£500	+3.62%	1 0.11%	6
Amazon Web Services Engineer	67	Down -20 places-20	£475	-	10 1.08%	1
SAP Data Services	76	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services Developer	76	Down -23 places-23	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	76	Down -26 places-26	£500	-2.91%	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	70	Down -19 places-19	£425	-15.00%	7 0.76%	5
SQL Server Integration Services	72	New entry-	£475	-	5 0.54%
SQL Server Reporting Services	76	Down -21 places-21	£580	+10.47%	1 0.11%
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	74	Down -26 places-26	-	-	3 0.32%
Field Services Engineer	75	Down -21 places-21	£128	+2.00%	2 0.22%	2
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	75	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.22%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	76	Down -22 places-22	£475	-	1 0.11%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	75	New entry-	-	-	2 0.22%
Microservices	42	Down -3 places-3	£438	-12.50%	36 3.89%	12