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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	64	Down -15 places-15	£475	-	7 0.76%	4
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	14	Up 8 places+8	£425	-10.52%	84 9.12%	52
Amazon Web Services DevOps	68	Down -23 places-23	-	-	3 0.33%	1
Services Manager	70	Down -20 places-20	£500	+3.62%	1 0.11%	1
Amazon Web Services Engineer	60	Down -16 places-16	£506	+6.57%	11 1.19%	1
SAP Data Services	70	New entry-	-	-	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services Developer	70	Down -15 places-15	£488	+2.63%	1 0.11%
IT Services Manager	70	Down -18 places-18	£500	-2.91%	1 0.11%
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	66	Down -15 places-15	£425	-15.00%	5 0.54%	6
SQL Server Integration Services	66	New entry-	£438	-	5 0.54%	3
Field Services Engineer	69	Down -13 places-13	£128	+2.00%	2 0.22%
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	68	Down -23 places-23	-	-	3 0.33%
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	69	New entry-	£463	-	2 0.22%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	70	Down -16 places-16	£475	-	1 0.11%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	69	New entry-	-	-	2 0.22%
Microservices	37	Up 5 places+5	£438	-12.50%	34 3.69%	17