Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in Manchester

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Security Cleared	19	Up 12 places+12	£72,500	-3.33%	533 6.85%	87
SC Cleared	33	Up 63 places+63	£70,000	-2.69%	359 4.61%	61
Degree	38	Down 33 places-33	£42,000	+3.70%	310 3.98%	87
DV Cleared	73	Down 22 places-22	£80,000	-	169 2.17%	11
DBS Check	138	Down 72 places-72	£42,000	+5.00%	78 1.00%	23
HNC	150	Down 10 places-10	£42,000	-1.17%	65 0.83%	24
Microsoft Certification	155	Down 30 places-30	£51,250	+35.76%	60 0.77%	9
BPSS Clearance	166	Down 25 places-25	£80,000	+33.33%	49 0.63%	22
ACCA	167	Down 79 places-79	£77,500	+63.15%	48 0.62%	2
CIMA	172	Down 65 places-65	£75,000	+57.89%	43 0.55%	1
Computer Science Degree	178	Down 69 places-69	£60,000	+9.09%	37 0.48%	10
Master's Degree	179	Down 120 places-120	£51,000	-18.40%	36 0.46%	7
Azure Certification	188	Down 71 places-71	£47,500	+15.85%	27 0.35%	15
HND	193	Down 52 places-52	£40,500	-35.20%	22 0.28%	18
CISSP	194	Down 57 places-57	£60,343	-19.54%	21 0.27%	17
ITIL Certification	194	Down 52 places-52	£50,000	+52.67%	21 0.27%	4
CIPD	195	New entry-	£40,000	-	20 0.26%	1
AWS Certification	196	Down 143 places-143	£55,000	+80.32%	19 0.24%	15
CISM	196	Down 53 places-53	£60,000	-35.13%	19 0.24%	7
Cisco Certification	197	Down 60 places-60	£52,500	+29.62%	18 0.23%	7
PMI Certification	201	Down 61 places-61	£55,000	+10.00%	14 0.18%	4
ITIL Foundation Certificate	203	Down 55 places-55	£27,500	-66.46%	12 0.15%	1
CCNA	203	Down 64 places-64	£52,500	+29.62%	12 0.15%	3
PMP	205	Down 66 places-66	£50,000	-	10 0.13%	2
PRINCE2 Practitioner	205	New entry-	£70,000	-	10 0.13%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	206	New entry-	£47,500	-	9 0.12%	1
Chartered Engineer	206	Down 58 places-58	£50,000	-	9 0.12%	3
CISA	206	Down 60 places-60	£60,000	-25.00%	9 0.12%	7
City & Guilds	207	New entry-	£39,000	-	8 0.10%	7
CRISC	207	Down 62 places-62	£60,000	-	8 0.10%	3
MCSE	207	New entry-	£75,000	-	8 0.10%	1
CCNP	207	Down 61 places-61	£52,500	-19.23%	8 0.10%	1
CompTIA CySA+	208	Down 61 places-61	£45,000	-18.18%	7 0.090%	1
NVQ Level 3	208	New entry-	£53,800	-	7 0.090%	11
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner	209	Down 70 places-70	£30,000	-1.63%	6 0.077%	1
MCSA	209	New entry-	£47,500	-	6 0.077%	1
TOGAF Certification	210	Down 72 places-72	£65,766	+5.22%	5 0.064%
AWS Certified Solutions Architect	210	Down 148 places-148	-	-	5 0.064%	2
Postgraduate	210	Down 65 places-65	£51,000	-15.00%	5 0.064%
PhD	210	Down 141 places-141	£51,000	-45.60%	5 0.064%	3
CCA	210	New entry-	£26,228	-	5 0.064%	3
SAP Certification	210	Down 64 places-64	£58,541	-29.04%	5 0.064%
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor	211	New entry-	£75,000	-	4 0.051%	2
MBA	211	Down 64 places-64	-	-	4 0.051%
CompTIA Security+	211	Down 68 places-68	£35,000	+14.75%	4 0.051%	5
APMG	211	Down 66 places-66	£65,000	+20.82%	4 0.051%
Microsoft Certified Professional	211	Down 64 places-64	£80,000	+47.37%	4 0.051%	1
RIBA	212	New entry-	£40,000	-	3 0.039%	1
GCIH	212	Down 64 places-64	£45,000	-	3 0.039%
CISMP	212	Down 64 places-64	-	-	3 0.039%