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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	108	Down -47 places-47	£470	-13.76%	13 0.56%	26
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	31	Down -14 places-14	£510	+1.49%	115 4.95%	230
Amazon Web Services DevOps	119	New entry-	£485	-	2 0.086%	2
Services Manager	97	Down -13 places-13	£488	-2.50%	24 1.03%	22
Amazon Web Services Engineer	106	Down -16 places-16	£510	+13.33%	15 0.65%	19
Amazon Web Services Architect	114	Down -31 places-31	£550	-8.33%	7 0.30%	4
SAP Data Services	116	Down -28 places-28	£604	-	5 0.22%
Amazon Web Services Specialist	120	New entry-	£488	-	1 0.043%
IT Services Manager	119	Down -31 places-31	£600	+20.00%	2 0.086%	7
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	116	Down -28 places-28	£600	+14.28%	5 0.22%	38
Field Services Engineer	117	Down -27 places-27	-	-	4 0.17%	11
SQL Server Integration Services	120	Down -35 places-35	-	-	1 0.043%	9
SQL Server Reporting Services	114	Down -26 places-26	£576	+44.00%	7 0.30%	5
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	114	Down -29 places-29	-	-	7 0.30%	18
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	119	New entry-	£485	-	2 0.086%	1
Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)	116	New entry-	£550	-	5 0.22%	1
Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)	111	Down -21 places-21	£475	+35.71%	10 0.43%	8
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	118	New entry-	-	-	3 0.13%	4
SQL Server Analysis Services	120	New entry-	-	-	1 0.043%	2
Data Architect - Amazon Web Services	115	New entry-	£550	-	6 0.26%	3
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)	116	Down -49 places-49	£450	-18.18%	5 0.22%
IT Services Delivery Manager	120	New entry-	£600	-	1 0.043%	4
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)	120	New entry-	£725	-	1 0.043%
Infrastructure Services Manager	120	New entry-	-	-	1 0.043%
Microservices	71	Up 2 places+2	£525	+5.00%	50 2.15%	74