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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	71	Down -25 places-25	£475	-	9 0.96%
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	15	Up 5 places+5	£425	-10.52%	90 9.65%	29
Amazon Web Services DevOps	77	Down -27 places-27	-	-	3 0.32%
Services Manager	79	Down -31 places-31	£500	+3.62%	1 0.11%	4
Amazon Web Services Engineer	70	Down -21 places-21	£475	+2.70%	10 1.07%	2
SAP Data Services	79	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services Developer	79	Down -26 places-26	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	79	Down -29 places-29	£500	-2.91%	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	73	Down -21 places-21	£425	-15.00%	7 0.75%	5
SQL Server Integration Services	75	New entry-	£475	-	5 0.54%
SQL Server Reporting Services	79	Down -24 places-24	£580	+10.47%	1 0.11%
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	77	Down -27 places-27	-	-	3 0.32%
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	78	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.21%
Field Services Engineer	79	Down -25 places-25	£123	-2.00%	1 0.11%	2
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	79	Down -24 places-24	£475	-	1 0.11%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	78	New entry-	-	-	2 0.21%	1
Microservices	41	Down -2 places-2	£438	-12.50%	39 4.18%	6