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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 15 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	151	Down -36 places-36	£447	+1.22%	39 0.80%	27
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	15	Down -2 places-2	£484	+1.83%	457 9.39%	526
Amazon Web Services DevOps	180	Down -59 places-59	£418	-12.10%	10 0.21%	12
Services Manager	171	Down -35 places-35	£478	-21.95%	19 0.39%	50
Amazon Web Services Engineer	142	Down -30 places-30	£469	-1.26%	48 0.99%	48
Amazon Web Services Architect	182	Down -40 places-40	£725	+39.82%	8 0.16%	6
SAP Data Services	184	Down -40 places-40	£481	-3.75%	6 0.12%
Amazon Web Services Developer	189	Down -50 places-50	£488	+2.63%	1 0.021%	7
IT Services Manager	187	Down -45 places-45	£625	+21.35%	3 0.062%	16
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	163	Down -39 places-39	£444	-15.47%	27 0.55%	106
Field Services Engineer	188	Down -56 places-56	£128	+2.00%	2 0.041%	33
SQL Server Integration Services	173	Down -41 places-41	£450	-12.19%	17 0.35%	23
SQL Server Reporting Services	186	Down -51 places-51	£468	+16.87%	4 0.082%	12
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	186	Down -43 places-43	£450	+11.45%	4 0.082%	13
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	185	Down -64 places-64	£418	-12.10%	5 0.10%	11
Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)	185	Down -46 places-46	£425	-19.04%	5 0.10%	3
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	172	Down -27 places-27	£462	-23.00%	18 0.37%	2
Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services	189	Down -44 places-44	£400	-55.15%	1 0.021%	9
Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services	187	New entry-	-	-	3 0.062%
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	178	Down -44 places-44	£500	+11.11%	12 0.25%	10
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)	182	New entry-	£450	-	8 0.16%	1
EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)	187	Down -43 places-43	£537	+37.25%	3 0.062%
Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	189	Down -45 places-45	£477	-46.52%	1 0.021%	2
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)	189	New entry-	-	-	1 0.021%	20
Financial Services Project Manager	188	Down -45 places-45	£625	+54.32%	2 0.041%	1
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	188	New entry-	-	-	2 0.041%
Infrastructure Architect - Amazon Web Services	189	New entry-	£477	-	1 0.021%
Financial Services Business Analyst	189	Down -45 places-45	£475	+35.71%	1 0.021%	1
Infrastructure Services Project Manager	188	New entry-	£625	-	2 0.041%
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)	188	New entry-	-	-	2 0.041%
SQL Server Integration Services Analyst (SSIS Analyst)	189	New entry-	£375	-	1 0.021%
Microservices	71	Down -16 places-16	£500	+2.96%	144 2.96%	124