Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in Bedfordshire

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Security Cleared	14	Up 25 places+25	£55,000	-3.93%	73 7.02%	41
Degree	16	Down 15 places-15	£40,000	-23.44%	70 6.73%	36
SC Cleared	19	Up 21 places+21	£55,000	-12.00%	62 5.96%	31
HNC	35	Up 7 places+7	£45,500	-	26 2.50%	20
BPSS Clearance	36	New entry-	£42,500	-	25 2.40%	7
DV Cleared	38	New entry-	-	-	22 2.12%	10
City & Guilds	46	New entry-	£45,000	-	14 1.35%	3
HND	47	Down 42 places-42	£45,500	-	13 1.25%	14
NVQ Level 3	47	New entry-	£46,750	-	13 1.25%	3
ACCA	51	New entry-	£45,000	-	9 0.87%
CIMA	51	New entry-	£45,000	-	9 0.87%
Cisco Certification	52	Down 7 places-7	£37,500	-27.88%	8 0.77%	1
AAT	52	New entry-	£45,000	-	8 0.77%
Computer Science Degree	53	Down 10 places-10	£37,500	-16.66%	7 0.67%	1
DBS Check	54	New entry-	£32,500	-	6 0.58%	4
CCNP	54	New entry-	£34,000	-	6 0.58%
CCNA	55	New entry-	£34,000	-	5 0.48%	1
ISTQB	56	New entry-	£37,500	-	4 0.38%
GNVQ	56	New entry-	-	-	4 0.38%
Microsoft Certification	57	Down 20 places-20	£65,000	+100.00%	3 0.29%	2
Master's Degree	57	Down 24 places-24	£52,000	-	3 0.29%	2
Microsoft Certified Professional	58	Down 17 places-17	£37,500	+15.38%	2 0.19%
Postgraduate	58	New entry-	£45,249	-	2 0.19%	1
CCIE	58	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.19%
PMP	58	Down 15 places-15	£54,000	+3.84%	2 0.19%
PMI Certification	58	Down 15 places-15	£54,000	+3.84%	2 0.19%
CIPD	58	New entry-	£32,500	-	2 0.19%
Chartered Engineer	58	New entry-	-	-	2 0.19%	2
CISSP	59	Down 17 places-17	-	-	1 0.096%
PRINCE2 Practitioner	59	New entry-	£54,000	-	1 0.096%