Academic & Professional Certification Statistics in the West Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 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%	140
Security Cleared	23	Up 2 places+2	£70,000	-	432 4.72%	85
SC Cleared	38	Down 1 place-1	£70,000	-3.44%	323 3.53%	66
DBS Check	117	No change0	£43,000	+4.87%	110 1.20%	22
HNC	145	Up 11 places+11	£41,475	-17.05%	81 0.88%	53
BPSS Clearance	148	Down 44 places-44	£75,000	+33.33%	77 0.84%	28
DV Cleared	149	Down 29 places-29	£85,000	+13.33%	76 0.83%	13
Azure Certification	157	Down 58 places-58	£60,000	-	66 0.72%	12
HND	160	Down 2 places-2	£40,625	-24.41%	63 0.69%	38
Microsoft Certification	164	Down 38 places-38	£52,500	+50.00%	59 0.64%	10
NVQ Level 3	166	Up 1 place+1	£50,500	-12.17%	57 0.62%	12
Cisco Certification	172	Down 32 places-32	£75,000	+20.00%	51 0.56%	18
Master's Degree	177	Down 133 places-133	£70,000	+27.27%	46 0.50%	14
CISSP	181	Down 38 places-38	£66,269	+6.02%	42 0.46%	10
ACCA	182	Down 65 places-65	£52,500	+69.35%	41 0.45%	2
City & Guilds	182	Down 15 places-15	£54,000	-	41 0.45%	11
PMI Certification	184	Down 27 places-27	£60,900	-14.24%	39 0.43%	6
CIMA	187	Down 44 places-44	£52,500	+69.35%	36 0.39%	2
Computer Science Degree	190	Down 83 places-83	£59,250	+39.41%	33 0.36%	13
CCNP	190	Down 40 places-40	£75,000	+35.13%	33 0.36%	4
AWS Certification	193	Down 62 places-62	£57,500	+57.53%	30 0.33%	10
Postgraduate	194	New entry-	£36,126	-	29 0.32%	7
Chartered Engineer	201	Down 36 places-36	£55,000	-	22 0.24%	4
CISM	202	Down 52 places-52	£72,500	+35.65%	21 0.23%	2
TOGAF Certification	203	Down 44 places-44	£63,386	-6.09%	20 0.22%	2
CCNA	203	Down 43 places-43	£47,500	-6.86%	20 0.22%	9
CIPD	207	Down 43 places-43	£35,500	+9.23%	16 0.17%	1
Network+ Certification	209	Down 60 places-60	£32,500	-40.90%	14 0.15%	10
MCSE	210	Down 52 places-52	£47,500	+35.71%	13 0.14%
CRISC	210	Down 47 places-47	£53,600	+3.30%	13 0.14%	2
PMP	210	Down 52 places-52	£66,250	-6.70%	13 0.14%	6
A+ Certification	211	Down 62 places-62	£32,500	-7.14%	12 0.13%	11
ISTQB	212	Down 51 places-51	£60,000	+33.33%	11 0.12%	2
CITP	212	Down 52 places-52	£75,537	+37.34%	11 0.12%
ITIL Foundation Certificate	213	Down 51 places-51	£31,000	-42.59%	10 0.11%	4
CompTIA Security+	215	Down 54 places-54	£47,151	+54.59%	8 0.087%	5
CCSP	215	Down 52 places-52	£82,500	+22.22%	8 0.087%	4
ISEB	215	New entry-	£59,000	-	8 0.087%
(ISC)2 CCSP	215	Down 54 places-54	£82,500	+22.22%	8 0.087%	4
CISA	216	Down 50 places-50	£72,500	-	7 0.076%	4
PRINCE2 Practitioner	217	Down 55 places-55	£60,566	-3.09%	6 0.066%	2
PhD	217	Down 159 places-159	£53,500	-	6 0.066%	1
Six Sigma Green Belt	218	Down 51 places-51	£85,000	-	5 0.055%
RIBA	218	Down 51 places-51	£38,000	-	5 0.055%	1
AAT	218	Down 68 places-68	-	-	5 0.055%	1
ITIL Certification	218	Down 69 places-69	£59,386	+3.39%	5 0.055%	5
AWS Certified Solutions Architect	218	Down 55 places-55	£85,000	+38.77%	5 0.055%
ISO 27001 Lead Implementer	219	Down 52 places-52	£67,500	-	4 0.044%	2
SAP Certification	219	New entry-	£56,250	-	4 0.044%
IIBA	220	New entry-	-	-	3 0.033%	3