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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	70	Down -11 places-11	£650	+8.33%	3 0.43%	8
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	6	Down -1 place-1	£475	-5.00%	115 16.62%	117
Amazon Web Services DevOps	68	Down -7 places-7	£431	-11.64%	5 0.72%
Services Manager	70	New entry-	£413	-	3 0.43%	5
Amazon Web Services Engineer	61	Down -13 places-13	£425	-12.82%	12 1.73%	7
Amazon Web Services Architect	66	Down -2 places-2	£650	+30.00%	7 1.01%
SAP Data Services	72	New entry-	-	-	1 0.14%	1
Amazon Web Services Developer	68	Down -5 places-5	£425	-19.04%	5 0.72%	2
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	67	Down -13 places-13	£513	+2.50%	6 0.87%	31
SQL Server Integration Services	70	Down -10 places-10	£438	-5.40%	3 0.43%
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	70	New entry-	£550	-	3 0.43%
SQL Server Reporting Services	72	Down -8 places-8	£488	-2.50%	1 0.14%
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	68	Down -7 places-7	£431	-11.64%	5 0.72%
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	69	Down -5 places-5	£425	-8.10%	4 0.58%
Data Architect - Amazon Web Services	70	New entry-	£409	-	3 0.43%
Infrastructure Services Manager	72	New entry-	-	-	1 0.14%
Microservices	46	Down -9 places-9	£463	-11.90%	27 3.90%	41