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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	68	Down -16 places-16	-	-	4 0.45%	1
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	15	Up 1 place+1	£425	-10.52%	74 8.26%	136
Amazon Web Services DevOps	69	Down -22 places-22	-	-	3 0.33%	1
Services Manager	71	Down -17 places-17	£500	-16.66%	1 0.11%	6
Amazon Web Services Engineer	60	Down -15 places-15	£538	+13.15%	12 1.34%	5
SAP Data Services	71	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services Developer	71	Down -13 places-13	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	71	Down -14 places-14	£500	-16.66%	1 0.11%	4
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	67	Down -15 places-15	£425	-12.82%	5 0.56%	47
Field Services Engineer	70	Down -11 places-11	£128	+2.00%	2 0.22%	5
SQL Server Integration Services	67	New entry-	£438	-	5 0.56%	2
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	71	Down -13 places-13	£413	+2.16%	1 0.11%	2
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	69	Down -22 places-22	-	-	3 0.33%	1
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	71	New entry-	£350	-	1 0.11%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	71	Down -16 places-16	£475	-	1 0.11%	2
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	70	New entry-	-	-	2 0.22%
Microservices	47	Down -2 places-2	£438	-12.50%	25 2.79%	29