Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	70	Down 8 places-8	-	-	2 0.23%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	14	Down 5 places-5	£525	+8.69%	80 9.15%	99
Amazon Web Services DevOps	69	Down 18 places-18	-	-	3 0.34%	4
Services Manager	70	Down 4 places-4	£500	-20.00%	2 0.23%	20
Amazon Web Services Engineer	60	Down 16 places-16	£700	+47.36%	12 1.37%	8
SAP Data Services	71	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	71	Down 2 places-2	£500	-14.16%	1 0.11%	1
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	65	Down 10 places-10	£463	-5.12%	7 0.80%	24
Field Services Engineer	70	Up 1 place+1	£128	+2.00%	2 0.23%	28
SQL Server Integration Services	70	New entry-	£438	-	2 0.23%	2
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	69	Down 18 places-18	-	-	3 0.34%	4
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	71	Down 3 places-3	£413	-2.94%	1 0.11%	2
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	69	New entry-	£475	-	3 0.34%	1
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	70	New entry-	-	-	2 0.23%
Microservices	50	Down 9 places-9	£519	+3.75%	22 2.52%	21