General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Bedford

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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
Management Information System	17	New entry-	£45,000	-	16 4.20%	9
Robotics	17	Down 11 places-11	£52,500	-4.54%	16 4.20%	16
Embedded Systems	21	New entry-	£75,000	-	12 3.15%	2
Driving Licence	22	Down 13 places-13	£36,000	-	11 2.89%	5
Enterprise Software	26	Down 16 places-16	£40,000	-	7 1.84%
CCTV	26	New entry-	£38,000	-	7 1.84%	2
Self-Motivation	27	Down 19 places-19	£50,000	+33.33%	6 1.57%	1
Operational Technology	28	New entry-	£55,000	-	5 1.31%	4
Data Centre	29	Down 19 places-19	£45,500	+89.58%	4 1.05%
Product Ownership	29	Down 20 places-20	£50,000	-	4 1.05%	1
Mobile Games	30	New entry-	-	-	3 0.79%
VHDL	30	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.79%	1
Verilog	30	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.79%	1
Renewable Energy	30	New entry-	£52,500	-	3 0.79%	1
FPGA	30	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.79%	2
Smartphone	30	New entry-	-	-	3 0.79%
FMCG	31	Down 25 places-25	£52,500	-	2 0.52%	3
Social Media	31	New entry-	£42,500	-	2 0.52%
Marketing Technology	31	New entry-	£42,500	-	2 0.52%
Fibre Optics	31	New entry-	£36,000	-	2 0.52%
Solar Panel	31	New entry-	-	-	2 0.52%
Onboarding	31	Down 23 places-23	-	-	2 0.52%	1
Algorithms	32	New entry-	-	-	1 0.26%
LIMS	32	New entry-	-	-	1 0.26%
Analogue Electronics	32	New entry-	£33,000	-	1 0.26%	3
GNSS	32	New entry-	-	-	1 0.26%