Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	70	Down -27 places-27	£475	-	8 0.87%	1
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	14	Up 7 places+7	£425	-19.04%	82 8.95%	39
Services Manager	71	Down -24 places-24	£550	+22.22%	7 0.76%	4
Amazon Web Services Engineer	71	Down -20 places-20	£475	+5.55%	7 0.76%	4
Amazon Web Services Developer	77	Down -26 places-26	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	73	Down -24 places-24	-	-	5 0.55%
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	72	Down -21 places-21	£425	-22.72%	6 0.66%	8
SQL Server Integration Services	74	Down -24 places-24	£475	-	4 0.44%
SQL Server Reporting Services	77	Down -26 places-26	£580	+10.47%	1 0.11%	1
Field Services Engineer	77	Down -30 places-30	£123	-2.00%	1 0.11%
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	76	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.22%	1
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	77	New entry-	£475	-	1 0.11%
IT Services Delivery Manager	77	Down -26 places-26	-	-	1 0.11%
Microservices	45	Up 1 place+1	£475	+2.15%	33 3.60%	8