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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
A+ Certification	63	Up 1 place+1	-	-	3 0.42%	6
AWS Certification	46	Up 17 places+17	£535	+45.25%	20 2.77%	4
PMI Certification	56	Up 7 places+7	£447	+43.26%	10 1.39%	2
Azure Certification	47	Up 17 places+17	£515	-	19 2.64%	2
IBM Certification	65	New entry-	£519	-	1 0.14%
ITIL Certification	58	Down -6 places-6	£535	+201.14%	8 1.11%	1
Cisco Certification	36	Up 14 places+14	£493	+3.74%	30 4.16%	2
TOGAF Certification	62	Up 1 place+1	£476	-11.60%	4 0.55%	2
Oracle Certification	65	New entry-	£375	-	1 0.14%
Network+ Certification	60	Up 4 places+4	£417	+122.40%	6 0.83%	5
Microsoft Certification	59	No change0	£400	-15.78%	7 0.97%	5
ISTQB Advanced Certification	64	No change0	-	-	2 0.28%
ITIL Foundation Certificate	64	New entry-	£583	-	2 0.28%	1
GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)	65	New entry-	£377	-	1 0.14%	3
Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)	61	New entry-	£712	-	5 0.69%	3
Higher National Certificate (HNC)	63	New entry-	-	-	3 0.42%	5