Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	99	Down -32 places-32	£460	-15.98%	13 0.59%	5
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	26	Down -9 places-9	£510	+2.00%	108 4.89%	66
Amazon Web Services DevOps	108	New entry-	£485	-	4 0.18%
Services Manager	88	Down -1 place-1	£525	+5.00%	24 1.09%	7
Amazon Web Services Engineer	96	Down -3 places-3	£510	+13.33%	16 0.72%	4
Amazon Web Services Architect	106	Down -20 places-20	£550	-8.33%	6 0.27%	1
SAP Data Services	107	Down -16 places-16	£604	-	5 0.23%
Amazon Web Services Specialist	111	New entry-	£488	-	1 0.045%
IT Services Manager	110	Down -19 places-19	£600	+20.00%	2 0.091%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	103	Down -12 places-12	£600	+14.28%	9 0.41%	28
Field Services Engineer	110	Down -17 places-17	-	-	2 0.091%	14
SQL Server Integration Services	111	Down -21 places-21	-	-	1 0.045%	2
SQL Server Reporting Services	106	Down -15 places-15	£576	+44.00%	6 0.27%	4
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	108	New entry-	£485	-	4 0.18%
Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)	107	New entry-	£550	-	5 0.23%
Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)	102	Down -9 places-9	£475	+35.71%	10 0.45%	1
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	111	New entry-	-	-	1 0.045%	1
SQL Server Analysis Services	111	New entry-	-	-	1 0.045%
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)	106	Down -35 places-35	£450	-18.18%	6 0.27%
IT Services Delivery Manager	111	New entry-	£600	-	1 0.045%	1
Data Architect - Amazon Web Services	108	New entry-	£550	-	4 0.18%	1
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)	111	New entry-	£725	-	1 0.045%
Infrastructure Services Manager	111	New entry-	-	-	1 0.045%
Microservices	69	Up 6 places+6	£525	+14.44%	44 1.99%	12