Contract Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in Reading

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Security Cleared	1	Up 2 places+2	£600	+20.00%	533 45.05%	121
SC Cleared	2	Up 3 places+3	£575	+15.00%	413 34.91%	89
DV Cleared	12	Up 41 places+41	£644	+11.95%	148 12.51%	40
Degree	16	Up 24 places+24	£575	+27.77%	135 11.41%	97
Azure Certification	49	Up 19 places+19	£665	+8.57%	48 4.06%	10
CISSP	61	Down 8 places-8	£628	+25.50%	36 3.04%	20
PMP	64	Up 1 place+1	£544	+3.57%	32 2.71%	5
Computer Science Degree	67	Down 5 places-5	£550	+22.22%	29 2.45%	9
PMI Certification	68	Down 5 places-5	£613	+27.60%	28 2.37%	6
Cisco Certification	69	Down 23 places-23	£638	+10.86%	27 2.28%	3
AWS Certification	75	Down 23 places-23	£650	+30.00%	21 1.78%	5
CISM	78	Down 11 places-11	£700	-8.19%	18 1.52%	12
(ISC)2 CCSP	79	Down 12 places-12	£700	-6.66%	17 1.44%
TOGAF Certification	84	Down 12 places-12	£800	+60.00%	12 1.01%	1
Master's Degree	89	Down 24 places-24	£450	+9.09%	7 0.59%	22
Microsoft Certification	89	Down 22 places-22	£638	+10.86%	7 0.59%	6
PRINCE2 Certification	89	Down 17 places-17	£575	-	7 0.59%
ITIL Foundation Certificate	89	New entry-	£459	-	7 0.59%	3
BPSS Clearance	90	Down 21 places-21	£550	+107.54%	6 0.51%	1
CCIE	90	Down 31 places-31	£333	-43.88%	6 0.51%	1
JNCIE	91	Down 30 places-30	£325	-	5 0.42%
CRISC	91	New entry-	£725	-	5 0.42%	10
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor	92	New entry-	-	-	4 0.34%	2
ISO 27001 Lead Implementer	92	Down 20 places-20	-	-	4 0.34%
CEH	92	Down 22 places-22	£700	+40.00%	4 0.34%	1
CSPO	92	New entry-	-	-	4 0.34%
CompTIA Security+	92	Down 20 places-20	£700	+115.38%	4 0.34%	4
CCSP	92	Down 25 places-25	£550	-26.66%	4 0.34%
CCNP	92	Down 27 places-27	£320	-41.81%	4 0.34%	2
NVQ Level 3	93	New entry-	£465	-	3 0.25%	3
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	93	Down 22 places-22	-	-	3 0.25%
Tableau Certification	93	New entry-	£490	-	3 0.25%	1
HNC	93	New entry-	£498	-	3 0.25%	9
CCNA	93	Down 25 places-25	£300	-7.69%	3 0.25%	2
Chartered Engineer	93	New entry-	-	-	3 0.25%	4
APMP	94	Down 25 places-25	£575	-	2 0.17%
Microsoft Certified Professional	94	New entry-	-	-	2 0.17%	1
SAP Certification	94	New entry-	£500	-	2 0.17%	2
ITIL Certification	94	New entry-	-	-	2 0.17%	8
CISA	94	Down 22 places-22	£535	+3.48%	2 0.17%	4
NVQ Level 4	95	New entry-	£465	-	1 0.085%
BC Cleared	95	New entry-	-	-	1 0.085%
CTC Cleared	95	New entry-	£200	-	1 0.085%	1
GCFA	95	Down 36 places-36	£400	-20.00%	1 0.085%
CCSE	95	Down 23 places-23	-	-	1 0.085%
HND	95	New entry-	£498	-	1 0.085%	3
MCSE	95	New entry-	-	-	1 0.085%
AWS Certified Solutions Architect	95	Down 23 places-23	-	-	1 0.085%	1
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer	95	New entry-	-	-	1 0.085%
Oracle Certification	95	Down 23 places-23	£548	+23.03%	1 0.085%