Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in Durham

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Degree	8	Down 5 places-5	£51,000	+2.00%	48 9.07%	23
HNC	16	New entry-	£52,925	-	34 6.43%	8
HND	20	New entry-	£67,500	-	29 5.48%	4
NVQ Level 3	25	New entry-	£51,000	-	24 4.54%	1
Chartered Engineer	27	New entry-	£50,000	-	22 4.16%
Security Cleared	30	Down 2 places-2	£74,742	+6.65%	19 3.59%	6
SC Cleared	36	Down 8 places-8	£74,830	+6.78%	13 2.46%	3
Microsoft Certification	40	New entry-	£50,000	-	9 1.70%	1
ACCA	41	New entry-	£57,500	-	8 1.51%
CIMA	41	New entry-	£57,500	-	8 1.51%
CIPD	42	New entry-	£57,500	-	7 1.32%
CISSP	43	Down 9 places-9	£85,000	+21.42%	6 1.13%	1
CISM	43	Down 9 places-9	£85,000	+21.42%	6 1.13%	1
City & Guilds	44	New entry-	£46,800	-	5 0.95%	2
NVQ Level 4	45	New entry-	£54,580	-	4 0.76%
CCA	45	New entry-	£28,333	-	4 0.76%
PMP	46	New entry-	£100,000	-	3 0.57%
Postgraduate	47	New entry-	£43,265	-	2 0.38%
CISA	47	Down 13 places-13	£75,000	+7.14%	2 0.38%	1
Master's Degree	48	Down 14 places-14	-	-	1 0.19%
PRINCE2 Practitioner	48	New entry-	£70,000	-	1 0.19%
CTC Cleared	48	New entry-	£38,000	-	1 0.19%
PhD	48	Down 14 places-14	-	-	1 0.19%
CCNA	48	Down 16 places-16	£38,378	-23.24%	1 0.19%	1
Cisco Certification	48	Down 16 places-16	£38,378	-23.24%	1 0.19%	1
PRINCE2 Certification	48	New entry-	£70,000	-	1 0.19%
PMI Certification	48	New entry-	£100,000	-	1 0.19%