Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in the North West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Security Cleared	22	Up 52 places+52	£70,000	-	703 5.48%	333
Degree	27	Down 25 places-25	£42,500	-7.60%	630 4.91%	626
SC Cleared	36	Up 62 places+62	£70,000	+2.94%	487 3.79%	244
DBS Check	104	Down 26 places-26	£42,000	-6.66%	197 1.53%	89
HNC	106	Up 29 places+29	£42,000	-14.24%	194 1.51%	87
DV Cleared	109	Up 36 places+36	£85,000	+13.33%	191 1.49%	31
BPSS Clearance	122	Down 78 places-78	£54,490	+5.67%	165 1.29%	104
HND	169	Down 21 places-21	£47,621	-9.16%	104 0.81%	59
Microsoft Certification	184	Down 51 places-51	£55,000	+80.32%	88 0.69%	48
ACCA	201	Down 88 places-88	£70,000	+47.36%	70 0.55%	4
CIMA	209	Down 75 places-75	£70,000	+47.36%	62 0.48%	2
Master's Degree	214	Down 209 places-209	£42,215	-23.24%	57 0.44%	67
NVQ Level 3	220	Down 37 places-37	£52,500	+38.15%	51 0.40%	17
Computer Science Degree	223	Down 91 places-91	£60,000	+6.66%	48 0.37%	64
Azure Certification	229	Down 106 places-106	£50,000	+63.93%	42 0.33%	42
CISSP	237	Down 77 places-77	£60,343	-3.45%	34 0.26%	58
Cisco Certification	237	Down 88 places-88	£58,750	+9.30%	34 0.26%	24
AWS Certification	237	Down 98 places-98	£62,500	+104.91%	34 0.26%	58
PMI Certification	238	Down 72 places-72	£60,000	+10.09%	33 0.26%	23
Chartered Engineer	242	Down 106 places-106	£45,000	-21.73%	29 0.23%	16
City & Guilds	243	Down 67 places-67	£47,174	+29.22%	28 0.22%	10
ITIL Certification	244	Down 70 places-70	£52,500	+50.00%	27 0.21%	9
CISM	246	Down 72 places-72	£60,000	-27.27%	25 0.19%	37
Postgraduate	246	Down 227 places-227	£51,000	-7.27%	25 0.19%	13
CIPD	246	Down 69 places-69	£40,000	-14.89%	25 0.19%	3
PMP	251	Down 90 places-90	£51,750	+3.50%	20 0.16%	18
MCSE	252	New entry-	£75,000	-	19 0.15%	4
CCNA	253	Down 96 places-96	£53,750	-	18 0.14%	14
CCNP	254	Down 79 places-79	£60,000	+1.91%	17 0.13%	5
ITIL Foundation Certificate	257	Down 82 places-82	£27,500	-23.30%	14 0.11%	15
RIBA	258	Down 83 places-83	£40,000	-26.60%	13 0.10%	2
Microsoft Certified Professional	258	Down 86 places-86	£30,000	-6.25%	13 0.10%	15
PRINCE2 Practitioner	258	New entry-	£70,000	-	13 0.10%	2
CISA	260	Down 80 places-80	£60,000	-	11 0.086%	15
CompTIA CySA+	262	New entry-	£49,500	-	9 0.070%	12
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	263	Down 84 places-84	£47,500	-11.62%	8 0.062%	2
PhD	263	Down 254 places-254	£51,000	-9.73%	8 0.062%	51
CRISC	263	Down 83 places-83	£60,000	-	8 0.062%	5
CompTIA Security+	263	Down 96 places-96	£54,000	+77.04%	8 0.062%	41
SAP Certification	264	Down 83 places-83	£58,541	-29.04%	7 0.055%	2
TOGAF Certification	264	Down 102 places-102	£65,766	+5.22%	7 0.055%	7
MCSA	265	Down 84 places-84	£47,500	-17.39%	6 0.047%
AAT	265	Down 92 places-92	£36,000	+20.00%	6 0.047%
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner	265	Down 110 places-110	£30,000	-1.63%	6 0.047%	16
RHCSA	265	New entry-	£57,500	-	6 0.047%
MBA	266	Down 86 places-86	-	-	5 0.039%	7
GIAC	266	New entry-	£58,250	-	5 0.039%	8
Numerate Degree	266	Down 91 places-91	£50,000	+8.75%	5 0.039%	4
JNCIA	266	Down 89 places-89	£45,000	-22.07%	5 0.039%	3
CCA	266	New entry-	£26,228	-	5 0.039%	4