Contract Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in Wales

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Security Cleared	2	Up 3 places+3	£550	+10.00%	108 16.82%	28
SC Cleared	4	Up 6 places+6	£550	+1.85%	97 15.11%	21
CCNA	36	New entry-	£363	-	17 2.65%	4
Cisco Certification	36	Up 1 place+1	£363	-14.70%	17 2.65%	7
Degree	39	Down -31 places-31	£530	+73.49%	14 2.18%	76
Microsoft Certification	40	Down -4 places-4	£500	+177.77%	13 2.02%	8
BPSS Clearance	41	Down -6 places-6	£413	-28.26%	12 1.87%	4
MCSE	43	New entry-	£525	-	10 1.56%	2
HNC	44	Down -6 places-6	-	-	9 1.40%	13
NVQ Level 3	44	New entry-	-	-	9 1.40%	14
DBS Check	46	Down -13 places-13	£140	-12.50%	7 1.09%	22
A+ Certification	47	Down -10 places-10	-	-	6 0.93%	25
Network+ Certification	47	New entry-	-	-	6 0.93%	11
Azure Certification	49	Down -18 places-18	£450	-6.25%	4 0.62%	11
Computer Science Degree	49	Down -21 places-21	£530	+14.59%	4 0.62%	6
NVQ Level 4	49	New entry-	-	-	4 0.62%
DV Cleared	49	Down -13 places-13	-	-	4 0.62%	1
CISM	49	New entry-	£800	-	4 0.62%
CCNP	50	Down -13 places-13	£363	-14.70%	3 0.47%	3
ISTQB	50	Down -17 places-17	£700	+77.77%	3 0.47%
ISTQB Foundation Certification	50	New entry-	£700	-	3 0.47%
JNCIA	51	New entry-	£200	-	2 0.31%
PRINCE2 Practitioner	52	New entry-	-	-	1 0.16%	3
HND	52	Down -15 places-15	£475	+111.11%	1 0.16%	10
CCA	52	New entry-	£550	-	1 0.16%	2
APMG	52	New entry-	£650	-	1 0.16%
GIAC	52	New entry-	£815	-	1 0.16%
IIBA	52	Down -14 places-14	£560	+24.44%	1 0.16%
CompTIA Security+	52	Down -14 places-14	£815	+242.43%	1 0.16%	13