Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	70	Down -25 places-25	£475	+18.75%	7 0.75%	1
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	18	Up 3 places+3	£475	-13.63%	73 7.84%	47
Services Manager	70	Down -26 places-26	£550	+22.22%	7 0.75%	4
Amazon Web Services Engineer	72	New entry-	£475	-	5 0.54%	2
Amazon Web Services Developer	76	New entry-	£488	-	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	72	Down -25 places-25	-	-	5 0.54%	1
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	75	New entry-	-	-	2 0.21%	7
SQL Server Integration Services	73	Down -25 places-25	£475	-	4 0.43%	1
SQL Server Reporting Services	76	Down -27 places-27	£580	+10.47%	1 0.11%	4
Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)	76	Down -28 places-28	-	-	1 0.11%	3
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	75	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.21%	2
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	76	New entry-	£475	-	1 0.11%
IT Services Delivery Manager	76	Down -27 places-27	-	-	1 0.11%	1
Financial Services Project Manager	76	New entry-	£425	-	1 0.11%
Microservices	47	Up 1 place+1	£475	+4.39%	30 3.22%	10