Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	70	Down -8 places-8	£650	+8.33%	3 0.40%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	8	Down -3 places-3	£490	-1.95%	105 13.94%	63
Amazon Web Services DevOps	68	Down -4 places-4	£431	-11.64%	5 0.66%	1
Services Manager	68	Down -3 places-3	£413	+24.62%	5 0.66%	1
Amazon Web Services Engineer	61	Down -9 places-9	£425	-12.82%	12 1.59%	4
Amazon Web Services Architect	66	Up 1 place+1	£650	+30.00%	7 0.93%
SAP Data Services	72	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
Amazon Web Services Developer	68	Down -1 place-1	£425	-19.04%	5 0.66%
IT Services Manager	72	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	68	Down -11 places-11	£513	+2.50%	5 0.66%	10
SQL Server Integration Services	71	Down -8 places-8	£463	-	2 0.27%
SQL Server Reporting Services	72	Down -5 places-5	£488	-2.50%	1 0.13%
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	69	Down -2 places-2	£550	-	4 0.53%
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	68	Down -4 places-4	£431	-11.64%	5 0.66%	1
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	69	Down -2 places-2	£425	-	4 0.53%
Data Architect - Amazon Web Services	70	New entry-	£409	-	3 0.40%
Azure Cognitive Services	72	Down -8 places-8	-	-	1 0.13%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	71	New entry-	£350	-	2 0.27%
Infrastructure Services Manager	72	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%
Microservices	41	Down -4 places-4	£450	-2.70%	32 4.25%	24