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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	65	Down -17 places-17	£475	-	9 0.97%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	13	Up 8 places+8	£425	-10.52%	86 9.30%	40
Amazon Web Services DevOps	71	Down -22 places-22	-	-	3 0.32%
Services Manager	73	Down -23 places-23	£500	+3.62%	1 0.11%	4
Amazon Web Services Engineer	64	Down -16 places-16	£475	-	10 1.08%	2
SAP Data Services	73	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services Developer	73	Down -18 places-18	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	73	Down -21 places-21	£500	-2.91%	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	67	Down -14 places-14	£425	-15.00%	7 0.76%	6
SQL Server Integration Services	70	New entry-	£475	-	4 0.43%	2
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	71	Down -22 places-22	-	-	3 0.32%
Field Services Engineer	72	Down -16 places-16	£128	+2.00%	2 0.22%	2
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	72	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.22%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	73	Down -17 places-17	£475	-	1 0.11%	1
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	72	New entry-	-	-	2 0.22%
Microservices	38	Up 3 places+3	£438	-12.50%	36 3.89%	13