Contract Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in Wales

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Contract Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Security Cleared	2	Up 2 places+2	£550	-8.33%	119 17.60%	34
SC Cleared	4	Up 4 places+4	£550	-12.00%	111 16.42%	25
NVQ Level 3	22	New entry-	-	-	34 5.03%	1
Degree	40	Down 24 places-24	£503	+67.50%	15 2.22%	50
BPSS Clearance	40	Up 3 places+3	£413	-	15 2.22%	6
DBS Check	43	Down 2 places-2	£140	+16.66%	12 1.78%	11
CCNA	44	New entry-	£200	-	11 1.63%	7
Cisco Certification	44	New entry-	£200	-	11 1.63%	8
Microsoft Certification	48	New entry-	£500	-	7 1.04%	4
Azure Certification	48	Down 4 places-4	£450	-28.00%	7 1.04%	10
JNCIA	51	New entry-	£200	-	4 0.59%
CISM	51	Down 8 places-8	£800	-	4 0.59%
HNC	51	Down 6 places-6	-	-	4 0.59%	18
MCSE	51	New entry-	£525	-	4 0.59%
Computer Science Degree	51	Down 11 places-11	£530	+22.89%	4 0.59%	2
CCNP	52	New entry-	£363	-	3 0.44%	1
DV Cleared	53	Down 11 places-11	-	-	2 0.30%
PRINCE2 Practitioner	53	New entry-	£600	-	2 0.30%	3
SAP Certification	54	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%
CSSLP	54	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%
APMG	54	New entry-	£650	-	1 0.15%
CIPD	54	Down 10 places-10	-	-	1 0.15%
IIBA	54	New entry-	£560	-	1 0.15%
CompTIA Security+	54	Down 9 places-9	-	-	1 0.15%	5
GWAPT	54	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%
OSCP	54	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%
CEH	54	New entry-	-	-	1 0.15%	5