Contract Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in Cheshire

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Security Cleared	9	Down 2 places-2	£528	-15.60%	88 11.69%	40
Degree	14	Up 9 places+9	£525	+24.26%	68 9.03%	55
SC Cleared	19	No change0	£531	-21.40%	59 7.84%	34
BPSS Clearance	37	Down 2 places-2	£530	+13.49%	36 4.78%	11
CISSP	53	Up 9 places+9	£569	+8.38%	20 2.66%	2
Computer Science Degree	56	Up 1 place+1	£537	+39.84%	17 2.26%	1
AWS Certification	60	Up 6 places+6	£456	+20.71%	13 1.73%	9
Azure Certification	61	Up 9 places+9	£453	+2.43%	12 1.59%	5
Cisco Certification	62	Down 1 place-1	£575	+21.05%	11 1.46%
CCNP	64	Down 2 places-2	£575	+20.73%	9 1.20%
Microsoft Certification	64	Up 8 places+8	£475	+40.74%	9 1.20%	4
DBS Check	65	No change0	£500	+133.10%	8 1.06%	7
HNC	66	New entry-	£600	-	7 0.93%	14
HND	66	New entry-	£600	-	7 0.93%	11
CCIE	66	Up 10 places+10	£538	+13.15%	7 0.93%
ITIL Foundation Certificate	66	Up 2 places+2	£156	-52.65%	7 0.93%	2
ITIL Certification	68	No change0	£325	-29.72%	5 0.66%
GCIH	69	New entry-	£569	-	4 0.53%
PMI Certification	69	Up 3 places+3	£481	-17.23%	4 0.53%	1
CISM	69	Down 2 places-2	£545	+3.71%	4 0.53%	1
DV Cleared	69	New entry-	£525	-	4 0.53%	4
GCFA	70	New entry-	£569	-	3 0.40%
IIBA	70	New entry-	£525	-	3 0.40%
PMP	70	Up 3 places+3	£500	-20.00%	3 0.40%
CCIE Security	71	New entry-	£456	-	2 0.27%
CEH	71	New entry-	£444	-	2 0.27%
(ISC)2 CCSP	71	New entry-	£550	-	2 0.27%
CompTIA Security+	71	Up 4 places+4	£444	-26.42%	2 0.27%	5
OSCP	71	Up 6 places+6	£444	-28.38%	2 0.27%
PRINCE2 Certification	71	New entry-	£513	-	2 0.27%	1
Chartered Engineer	71	New entry-	-	-	2 0.27%	8
GIAC	71	New entry-	£550	-	2 0.27%
CCSA	72	Up 1 place+1	£456	-37.10%	1 0.13%
Master's Degree	72	Up 4 places+4	£525	+10.52%	1 0.13%	5
ISO 27001 Lead Implementer	72	Up 5 places+5	£644	+114.66%	1 0.13%
SAFe Agilist	72	New entry-	£474	-	1 0.13%
TOGAF Certification	72	Up 3 places+3	-	-	1 0.13%
GCIA	72	New entry-	£456	-	1 0.13%
Six Sigma Green Belt	72	Down 5 places-5	-	-	1 0.13%
CCSE	72	Up 5 places+5	£456	+21.60%	1 0.13%
AWS Certified Solutions Architect	72	Up 5 places+5	£397	-14.62%	1 0.13%
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator	72	New entry-	£397	-	1 0.13%
CIPD	72	New entry-	£400	-	1 0.13%
CCSP	72	New entry-	£456	-	1 0.13%
CCNA	72	Up 4 places+4	-	-	1 0.13%
ISEB	72	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.13%
PRINCE2 Practitioner	72	New entry-	£418	-	1 0.13%
NVQ Level 3	72	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%	1
BC Cleared	72	Up 1 place+1	-	-	1 0.13%
ACSP	72	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%