Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in the West Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 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	+11.76%	526 5.74%	153
Security Cleared	24	Up 3 places+3	£70,000	-	431 4.70%	83
SC Cleared	38	Up 2 places+2	£70,000	-3.44%	323 3.52%	61
DBS Check	121	No change0	£43,000	+4.87%	107 1.17%	24
HNC	146	Up 15 places+15	£41,500	-17.00%	80 0.87%	54
BPSS Clearance	148	Down 39 places-39	£75,000	+33.33%	77 0.84%	28
DV Cleared	148	Down 22 places-22	£85,000	+13.33%	77 0.84%	11
Azure Certification	159	Down 53 places-53	£60,000	-4.00%	66 0.72%	12
HND	162	No change0	£41,250	-23.25%	63 0.69%	40
Microsoft Certification	167	Down 34 places-34	£52,500	+44.82%	58 0.63%	12
NVQ Level 3	168	Up 2 places+2	£50,500	-12.17%	57 0.62%	14
Cisco Certification	174	Down 31 places-31	£75,000	+20.00%	51 0.56%	19
Master's Degree	179	Down 131 places-131	£70,000	+27.27%	46 0.50%	13
CISSP	183	Down 38 places-38	£66,269	+10.90%	42 0.46%	10
ACCA	184	Down 63 places-63	£52,500	+69.35%	41 0.45%	2
City & Guilds	184	Down 14 places-14	£54,000	-	41 0.45%	11
PMI Certification	186	Down 26 places-26	£60,900	-14.24%	39 0.43%	6
CIMA	189	Down 43 places-43	£52,500	+69.35%	36 0.39%	2
Computer Science Degree	191	Down 80 places-80	£59,386	+39.73%	34 0.37%	14
CCNP	192	Down 39 places-39	£75,000	+35.13%	33 0.36%	5
AWS Certification	195	Down 59 places-59	£57,500	+17.94%	30 0.33%	10
Postgraduate	196	New entry-	£36,126	-	29 0.32%	12
Chartered Engineer	203	Down 35 places-35	£55,000	-	22 0.24%	4
CISM	204	Down 51 places-51	£72,500	+35.65%	21 0.23%	2
CCNA	205	Down 42 places-42	£47,500	-6.86%	20 0.22%	9
TOGAF Certification	205	Down 43 places-43	£63,386	-6.09%	20 0.22%	3
CIPD	210	Down 43 places-43	£35,500	+9.23%	15 0.16%	1
Network+ Certification	211	Down 58 places-58	£32,500	-40.90%	14 0.15%	10
MCSE	212	Down 51 places-51	£47,500	+35.71%	13 0.14%
CRISC	212	Down 46 places-46	£53,600	+3.30%	13 0.14%	2
PMP	212	Down 51 places-51	£66,250	-6.70%	13 0.14%	6
A+ Certification	213	Down 60 places-60	£32,500	-7.14%	12 0.13%	11
CITP	214	Down 51 places-51	£75,537	+37.34%	11 0.12%
ISTQB	214	Down 49 places-49	£60,000	+33.33%	11 0.12%	3
ITIL Foundation Certificate	216	Down 51 places-51	£31,000	-42.59%	9 0.098%	4
CCSP	217	Down 51 places-51	£82,500	+22.22%	8 0.087%	4
ISEB	217	New entry-	£59,000	-	8 0.087%
(ISC)2 CCSP	217	Down 53 places-53	£82,500	+22.22%	8 0.087%	4
CompTIA Security+	217	Down 52 places-52	£47,151	+54.59%	8 0.087%	5
CISA	218	Down 49 places-49	£72,500	-	7 0.076%	4
PhD	219	Down 153 places-153	£53,500	-	6 0.065%	1
PRINCE2 Practitioner	219	Down 54 places-54	£60,566	-3.09%	6 0.065%	2
AAT	220	Down 67 places-67	-	-	5 0.055%	1
ITIL Certification	220	Down 69 places-69	£59,386	+3.39%	5 0.055%	6
AWS Certified Solutions Architect	220	Down 54 places-54	£85,000	+38.77%	5 0.055%
Six Sigma Green Belt	220	Down 50 places-50	£85,000	-	5 0.055%
RIBA	220	Down 50 places-50	£38,000	-	5 0.055%	1
ISO 27001 Lead Implementer	221	Down 51 places-51	£67,500	-	4 0.044%	2
SAP Certification	221	New entry-	£56,250	-	4 0.044%
IIBA	222	New entry-	-	-	3 0.033%	3