Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in Southampton

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Degree	11	Down 6 places-6	£52,500	+5.00%	82 7.80%	23
Security Cleared	14	Down 3 places-3	£72,500	+20.83%	75 7.14%	19
SC Cleared	18	Up 18 places+18	£75,000	-16.66%	64 6.09%	15
DV Cleared	28	Up 10 places+10	£80,000	+28.00%	43 4.09%	6
BPSS Clearance	35	Up 11 places+11	£57,050	-9.65%	35 3.33%	5
HNC	55	New entry-	£77,500	-	14 1.33%	5
ACCA	57	Down 14 places-14	£80,000	+45.45%	12 1.14%	1
PMI Certification	59	Down 20 places-20	£100,000	+42.85%	10 0.95%	1
Computer Science Degree	60	Down 16 places-16	£90,000	+63.63%	9 0.86%	3
Chartered Engineer	60	New entry-	£53,000	-	9 0.86%	1
Master's Degree	61	Down 31 places-31	£55,000	-	8 0.76%
NVQ Level 3	62	New entry-	£46,000	-	7 0.67%	1
CIMA	62	Down 19 places-19	£67,500	+22.72%	7 0.67%	1
CCNA	62	New entry-	£63,750	-	7 0.67%	3
Cisco Certification	62	Down 16 places-16	£63,750	+55.48%	7 0.67%	3
City & Guilds	62	New entry-	£46,000	-	7 0.67%
DBS Check	63	Down 26 places-26	£64,295	+7.78%	6 0.57%	2
Microsoft Certification	64	Down 22 places-22	£55,000	+15.78%	5 0.48%	2
PhD	65	Down 35 places-35	-	-	4 0.38%	1
HND	67	New entry-	£52,000	-	2 0.19%	4
PMP	67	Down 23 places-23	£95,000	+35.71%	2 0.19%	1
CompTIA Security+	68	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.095%	6
AAT	68	New entry-	£67,500	-	1 0.095%	1
CIPD	68	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.095%
ISTQB	68	Down 22 places-22	£39,500	-56.11%	1 0.095%
ISTQB Foundation Certification	68	New entry-	£39,500	-	1 0.095%
CISSP	68	Down 26 places-26	£65,000	+32.85%	1 0.095%	2
SSCP	68	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.095%	1