Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in Manchester

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Security Cleared	19	Up 13 places+13	£72,500	-3.11%	537 6.89%	114
SC Cleared	33	Up 61 places+61	£70,000	-2.69%	363 4.65%	83
Degree	38	Down 32 places-32	£42,000	-5.61%	317 4.06%	115
DV Cleared	65	Down 8 places-8	£85,000	+13.33%	168 2.15%	21
DBS Check	121	Down 39 places-39	£42,000	-16.00%	84 1.08%	31
HNC	133	Up 7 places+7	£42,000	-1.17%	72 0.92%	33
Microsoft Certification	144	Down 19 places-19	£55,000	+80.32%	60 0.77%	13
ACCA	152	Down 63 places-63	£73,750	+55.26%	51 0.65%	2
BPSS Clearance	152	Down 12 places-12	£80,000	+33.33%	51 0.65%	33
CIMA	159	Down 51 places-51	£73,750	+55.26%	44 0.56%	1
Master's Degree	167	Down 111 places-111	£51,000	-18.40%	36 0.46%	10
Computer Science Degree	168	Down 62 places-62	£60,000	+3.89%	35 0.45%	10
Azure Certification	175	Down 61 places-61	£50,000	-	28 0.36%	23
HND	178	Down 36 places-36	£41,500	-33.60%	25 0.32%	21
CISSP	181	Down 47 places-47	£60,343	-26.32%	22 0.28%	17
ITIL Certification	181	Down 38 places-38	£52,500	+60.30%	22 0.28%	6
CIPD	182	New entry-	£40,000	-	21 0.27%	4
CISM	183	Down 41 places-41	£60,000	-29.41%	20 0.26%	6
Cisco Certification	183	Down 47 places-47	£52,500	+29.62%	20 0.26%	19
AWS Certification	187	Down 127 places-127	£55,000	+80.32%	16 0.21%	20
PMI Certification	187	Down 47 places-47	£61,250	+22.50%	16 0.21%	4
CCNA	189	Down 50 places-50	£52,500	+29.62%	14 0.18%	12
ITIL Foundation Certificate	191	Down 43 places-43	£27,500	-66.46%	12 0.15%	2
PRINCE2 Practitioner	193	New entry-	£70,000	-	10 0.13%
Chartered Engineer	193	Down 46 places-46	£50,000	-	10 0.13%	4
CISA	193	Down 47 places-47	£60,000	-25.00%	10 0.13%	6
PMP	193	Down 55 places-55	£50,000	-	10 0.13%	5
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	194	New entry-	£47,500	-	9 0.12%	1
City & Guilds	194	New entry-	£39,000	-	9 0.12%	6
CRISC	195	Down 50 places-50	£60,000	-	8 0.10%	2
MCSE	195	New entry-	£75,000	-	8 0.10%	1
CCNP	195	Down 49 places-49	£52,500	-19.23%	8 0.10%	1
NVQ Level 3	196	New entry-	£54,000	-	7 0.090%	12
CompTIA CySA+	196	Down 48 places-48	£45,000	-18.18%	7 0.090%	3
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner	197	Down 59 places-59	£30,000	-1.63%	6 0.077%	7
MCSA	197	New entry-	£47,500	-	6 0.077%	1
TOGAF Certification	198	Down 61 places-61	£65,766	+5.22%	5 0.064%
Postgraduate	198	Down 54 places-54	£51,000	-7.27%	5 0.064%	2
PhD	198	Down 128 places-128	£51,000	-45.60%	5 0.064%	5
CCA	198	New entry-	£26,228	-	5 0.064%	3
SAP Certification	198	Down 52 places-52	£58,541	-29.04%	5 0.064%
ISO 27001 Lead Auditor	199	New entry-	£75,000	-	4 0.051%	1
MBA	199	Down 53 places-53	-	-	4 0.051%	1
CompTIA Security+	199	Down 58 places-58	£35,000	+14.75%	4 0.051%	12
JNCIA	199	Down 51 places-51	£45,000	+87.50%	4 0.051%	3
APMG	199	Down 54 places-54	£65,000	+20.82%	4 0.051%	1
Microsoft Certified Professional	199	Down 52 places-52	£80,000	+47.37%	4 0.051%	3
BICSI Certification	200	New entry-	-	-	3 0.039%	1
RIBA	200	New entry-	£40,000	-	3 0.039%	1
GCIH	200	Down 52 places-52	£45,000	-	3 0.039%