Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in the West Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Degree	18	Down 16 places-16	£47,500	+6.09%	495 5.43%	441
Security Cleared	26	No change0	£70,000	-	417 4.58%	235
SC Cleared	39	Down 1 place-1	£70,000	-0.76%	313 3.44%	167
DBS Check	117	Down 3 places-3	£43,000	+4.87%	103 1.13%	65
BPSS Clearance	143	Down 35 places-35	£75,000	+33.33%	73 0.80%	62
DV Cleared	144	Down 21 places-21	£85,000	+13.33%	72 0.79%	29
HNC	149	Up 11 places+11	£41,250	-17.50%	67 0.74%	92
Azure Certification	149	Down 43 places-43	£62,500	-5.66%	67 0.74%	21
Microsoft Certification	158	Down 25 places-25	£52,500	+40.00%	57 0.63%	24
HND	161	No change0	£41,250	-23.25%	54 0.59%	66
NVQ Level 3	165	Up 4 places+4	£50,500	-12.17%	50 0.55%	28
Cisco Certification	165	Down 23 places-23	£75,000	+21.45%	50 0.55%	23
Master's Degree	170	Down 128 places-128	£65,805	+19.64%	45 0.49%	60
ACCA	174	Down 55 places-55	£52,500	+69.35%	41 0.45%	3
PMI Certification	174	Down 15 places-15	£60,900	-14.24%	41 0.45%	13
CISSP	175	Down 28 places-28	£65,634	+9.84%	40 0.44%	22
Computer Science Degree	178	Down 68 places-68	£55,000	+29.41%	37 0.41%	45
CIMA	179	Down 34 places-34	£52,500	+69.35%	36 0.40%	1
AWS Certification	182	Down 45 places-45	£71,250	+26.73%	33 0.36%	35
City & Guilds	183	Down 14 places-14	£54,000	-	32 0.35%	16
CCNP	183	Down 31 places-31	£75,000	+35.13%	32 0.35%	10
Postgraduate	185	New entry-	£31,813	-	30 0.33%	21
CISM	193	Down 39 places-39	£72,500	+39.72%	22 0.24%	13
Chartered Engineer	195	Down 28 places-28	£57,500	-	20 0.22%	12
CCNA	195	Down 34 places-34	£47,500	-6.86%	20 0.22%	15
TOGAF Certification	197	Down 36 places-36	£63,522	-5.89%	18 0.20%	6
CIPD	200	Down 33 places-33	£35,500	+9.23%	15 0.16%	1
Network+ Certification	202	Down 50 places-50	£32,500	-40.90%	13 0.14%	19
MCSE	202	Down 42 places-42	£47,500	+35.71%	13 0.14%	1
CRISC	202	Down 37 places-37	£53,600	+3.30%	13 0.14%	4
PMP	202	Down 42 places-42	£66,250	-6.70%	13 0.14%	10
ISTQB	204	Down 39 places-39	£60,000	+29.72%	11 0.12%	8
CITP	204	Down 42 places-42	£75,537	+37.34%	11 0.12%
A+ Certification	204	Down 52 places-52	£36,250	+3.57%	11 0.12%	14
CCSP	207	Down 42 places-42	£82,500	+22.22%	8 0.088%	3
ISEB	207	New entry-	£59,000	-	8 0.088%
(ISC)2 CCSP	207	Down 43 places-43	£82,500	+22.22%	8 0.088%	2
ITIL Foundation Certificate	207	Down 43 places-43	£31,000	-42.59%	8 0.088%	6
CompTIA Security+	207	Down 43 places-43	£47,151	+54.59%	8 0.088%	9
AWS Certified Solutions Architect	208	Down 43 places-43	£85,000	+38.77%	7 0.077%	5
PRINCE2 Practitioner	209	Down 44 places-44	£60,566	+7.67%	6 0.066%	2
CISA	209	Down 41 places-41	£44,720	-38.31%	6 0.066%	11
RIBA	209	Down 40 places-40	£41,000	-	6 0.066%	2
Six Sigma Green Belt	210	New entry-	£85,000	-	5 0.055%
AAT	210	Down 58 places-58	-	-	5 0.055%
ITIL Certification	210	Down 60 places-60	£59,386	+3.39%	5 0.055%	13
PhD	211	Down 152 places-152	£52,250	-	4 0.044%	23
SAP Certification	211	New entry-	£56,250	-	4 0.044%	2
PCI QSA	212	New entry-	-	-	3 0.033%	1
CCAB	212	Down 46 places-46	-	-	3 0.033%