Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	109	Down -42 places-42	£460	-15.98%	8 0.36%	16
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	30	Down -13 places-13	£510	+1.74%	107 4.83%	157
Amazon Web Services DevOps	114	New entry-	£485	-	3 0.14%	1
Services Manager	93	Down -6 places-6	£525	+5.00%	24 1.08%	7
Amazon Web Services Engineer	102	Down -9 places-9	£510	+13.33%	15 0.68%	10
Amazon Web Services Architect	111	Down -25 places-25	£550	-8.33%	6 0.27%	1
SAP Data Services	112	Down -21 places-21	£604	-	5 0.23%
Amazon Web Services Specialist	116	New entry-	£488	-	1 0.045%
IT Services Manager	115	Down -24 places-24	£600	+20.00%	2 0.090%	5
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	109	Down -18 places-18	£600	+14.28%	8 0.36%	33
Field Services Engineer	114	Down -21 places-21	-	-	3 0.14%	12
SQL Server Integration Services	116	Down -27 places-27	-	-	1 0.045%	5
SQL Server Reporting Services	110	Down -19 places-19	£576	+44.00%	7 0.32%	2
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	114	New entry-	£485	-	3 0.14%
Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)	112	New entry-	£550	-	5 0.23%
Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)	107	Down -14 places-14	£475	+35.71%	10 0.45%	4
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	116	New entry-	-	-	1 0.045%	1
SQL Server Analysis Services	116	New entry-	-	-	1 0.045%
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)	111	Down -40 places-40	£450	-18.18%	6 0.27%
IT Services Delivery Manager	116	New entry-	£600	-	1 0.045%	1
Data Architect - Amazon Web Services	113	New entry-	£550	-	4 0.18%	1
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)	116	New entry-	£725	-	1 0.045%
Infrastructure Services Manager	116	New entry-	-	-	1 0.045%
Microservices	72	Up 3 places+3	£525	+8.52%	45 2.03%	47