Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in Bedfordshire

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Security Cleared	13	Up 24 places+24	£55,000	-12.00%	73 7.00%	35
Degree	15	Down 14 places-14	£40,869	-21.78%	70 6.71%	30
SC Cleared	18	Up 19 places+19	£55,000	-12.00%	62 5.94%	29
HNC	35	Up 4 places+4	£45,500	-	27 2.59%	18
BPSS Clearance	37	New entry-	£42,500	-	25 2.40%	3
DV Cleared	39	New entry-	£62,500	-	23 2.21%	8
City & Guilds	46	New entry-	£45,000	-	16 1.53%	3
NVQ Level 3	47	New entry-	£46,000	-	15 1.44%	3
HND	48	Down 43 places-43	£45,250	-	14 1.34%	11
Cisco Certification	53	New entry-	£37,500	-	9 0.86%	2
ACCA	53	New entry-	£45,000	-	9 0.86%
CIMA	53	New entry-	£45,000	-	9 0.86%
AAT	54	New entry-	£45,000	-	8 0.77%
Computer Science Degree	54	Down 14 places-14	£37,500	-16.66%	8 0.77%	1
DBS Check	56	New entry-	£32,500	-	6 0.58%	2
CCNP	56	New entry-	£34,000	-	6 0.58%	1
CCNA	56	New entry-	£35,750	-	6 0.58%	1
GNVQ	58	New entry-	-	-	4 0.38%
Microsoft Certification	58	Down 24 places-24	£65,000	+100.00%	4 0.38%
ISTQB	58	New entry-	£37,500	-	4 0.38%
Microsoft Certified Professional	59	Down 21 places-21	£37,500	+15.38%	3 0.29%
Master's Degree	59	Down 29 places-29	£52,000	-	3 0.29%	2
Chartered Engineer	60	New entry-	-	-	2 0.19%	2
CCIE	60	New entry-	£55,000	-	2 0.19%	1
PMP	60	Down 19 places-19	£54,000	-	2 0.19%
PMI Certification	60	Down 19 places-19	£54,000	-	2 0.19%
CIPD	60	New entry-	£32,500	-	2 0.19%
PRINCE2 Practitioner	61	New entry-	£54,000	-	1 0.096%
Postgraduate	61	New entry-	£41,739	-	1 0.096%
CISSP	61	Down 21 places-21	-	-	1 0.096%