Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Dec 2025	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IT Engineer	37	+7	£130	-47.84%	8 2.00%	3
Microsoft 365 Engineer	34	+11	£520	+6.50%	11 2.75%	3
AWS Engineer	44	-	-	-	1 0.25%	2
SOC Engineer	43	-	£550	-	2 0.50%
Data Engineer	36	+14	£560	+1.81%	9 2.25%	3
Test Engineer	42	-	£197	-	3 0.75%	6
Cloud Engineer	38	+12	£550	-	7 1.75%	5
Azure Engineer	41	+9	£550	+74.60%	4 1.00%	2
Support Engineer	39	-3	£225	+50.00%	6 1.50%	11
DevOps Engineer	42	+4	£575	-8.00%	3 0.75%	2
Python Engineer	44	-	-	-	1 0.25%	1
Network Engineer	44	-5	-	-	1 0.25%	1
2nd Line Engineer	44	-	£225	-	1 0.25%
3rd Line Engineer	43	-	£450	-	2 0.50%	7
Windows Engineer	44	-	£465	-	1 0.25%
Security Engineer	40	+2	£590	+12.38%	5 1.25%	9
Platform Engineer	28	-	£450	-	17 4.25%	1
Microsoft Engineer	43	-	£517	-	2 0.50%
IT Support Engineer	43	+2	£220	-	2 0.50%	2
AWS DevOps Engineer	44	-	-	-	1 0.25%	2
Deployment Engineer	41	-	£190	-	4 1.00%
Senior Data Engineer	40	-	£560	-	5 1.25%
Integration Engineer	44	-	-	-	1 0.25%
Senior Cloud Engineer	44	-	£550	-	1 0.25%	2
Azure DevOps Engineer	44	-	£550	-	1 0.25%
Engineering Manager	44	-	-	-	1 0.25%	1
Data Engineering	36	+11	£525	+0.96%	9 2.25%	2
Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)	11	-3	£463	+17.08%	47 11.75%	25
Infrastructure Engineer	41	0	£550	+25.00%	4 1.00%	7
2nd Line Support Engineer	44	-	£225	-	1 0.25%
Senior DevOps Engineer	44	+6	-	-	1 0.25%
Cybersecurity Engineer	41	+5	£600	+14.28%	4 1.00%
Test Automation Engineer	42	-	£197	-	3 0.75%
3rd Line Support Engineer	44	-	£450	-	1 0.25%	2
Network Infrastructure Engineer	44	-	-	-	1 0.25%
Data Analytics Engineer	43	-	£475	-	2 0.50%
Senior AWS DevOps Engineer	44	-	-	-	1 0.25%
Software Integration Engineer	44	-	-	-	1 0.25%