Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Web Services	152	Down -35 places-35	£449	+1.56%	38 0.77%	29
Amazon Web Services (AWS)	15	Down -2 places-2	£480	+1.05%	474 9.55%	537
Amazon Web Services DevOps	181	Down -57 places-57	£418	-12.10%	9 0.18%	17
Services Manager	170	Down -36 places-36	£478	-16.86%	20 0.40%	45
Amazon Web Services Engineer	137	Down -22 places-22	£475	-	53 1.07%	48
Amazon Web Services Architect	180	Down -37 places-37	£725	+39.82%	10 0.20%	4
SAP Data Services	186	Down -39 places-39	£430	-14.00%	4 0.081%
IT Services Manager	187	Down -42 places-42	£625	+21.35%	3 0.060%	13
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification	160	Down -39 places-39	£463	-9.31%	30 0.60%	89
Field Services Engineer	188	Down -52 places-52	£128	+0.79%	2 0.040%	61
SQL Server Integration Services	174	Down -37 places-37	£443	-13.65%	16 0.32%	10
SQL Server Reporting Services	186	Down -46 places-46	£468	+16.87%	4 0.081%	10
DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	185	Down -61 places-61	£418	-12.10%	5 0.10%	16
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	186	Down -40 places-40	£450	+11.45%	4 0.081%	6
Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)	187	Down -49 places-49	-	-	3 0.060%	5
Data Engineer - Amazon Web Services	166	Down -18 places-18	£469	-21.83%	24 0.48%	6
Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS Solutions Architect)	189	Down -44 places-44	£405	-21.89%	1 0.020%
Software Engineer - Amazon Web Services	189	Down -41 places-41	£400	-55.15%	1 0.020%	7
Infrastructure Engineer - Amazon Web Services	187	New entry-	-	-	3 0.060%
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)	185	New entry-	£450	-	5 0.10%	1
Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services	178	Down -41 places-41	£500	+11.11%	12 0.24%	4
Senior DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services	189	Down -42 places-42	£477	-46.52%	1 0.020%	2
EU Revised Directive on Payment Services (PSD2)	187	Down -40 places-40	£537	+37.25%	3 0.060%
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)	188	New entry-	-	-	2 0.040%	9
Financial Services Project Manager	188	Down -42 places-42	£625	+54.32%	2 0.040%
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS, JSR 311, Jersey)	188	New entry-	-	-	2 0.040%
Financial Services Business Analyst	189	Down -42 places-42	£475	+35.71%	1 0.020%
Infrastructure Architect - Amazon Web Services	189	New entry-	£477	-	1 0.020%
Infrastructure Services Project Manager	188	New entry-	£625	-	2 0.040%
SQL Server Integration Services Analyst (SSIS Analyst)	189	New entry-	£375	-	1 0.020%
Microservices	73	Down -17 places-17	£490	-0.20%	142 2.86%	148