General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Cambridge

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cyber Threat	16	New entry-	£74,000	-	90 6.90%	11
Algorithms	18	Up 5 places+5	£70,000	+27.27%	79 6.05%	52
Robotics	30	Down 4 places-4	£70,000	+27.27%	49 3.75%	63
FPGA	36	Up 12 places+12	£85,000	+6.25%	42 3.22%	58
Embedded Systems	36	Up 12 places+12	£65,000	-3.70%	42 3.22%	50
Distributed Systems	48	No change0	£80,000	-	29 2.22%	16
Driving Licence	53	Down 14 places-14	£32,650	-32.12%	24 1.84%	20
AI Agents	55	New entry-	£105,000	-	22 1.69%	15
Onboarding	58	Down 28 places-28	£45,000	-	19 1.46%	12
Renewable Energy	60	Down 11 places-11	£45,000	-35.71%	17 1.30%	1
Cloud Native	61	Down 14 places-14	£75,000	+7.14%	16 1.23%	12
Life Science	61	Down 14 places-14	£60,000	+26.31%	16 1.23%	25
IoT	61	Down 13 places-13	£72,500	-	16 1.23%	17
Self-Motivation	63	Down 29 places-29	£37,500	-	14 1.07%	10
Enterprise Software	63	Down 15 places-15	£60,000	+118.18%	14 1.07%	8
Handset	64	Down 14 places-14	£50,000	-	13 1.00%	1
VHDL	64	Down 15 places-15	£80,000	-	13 1.00%	20
Analogue Electronics	66	Down 16 places-16	£65,000	-	11 0.84%	15
Verilog	66	Down 17 places-17	£50,000	-37.50%	11 0.84%	32
Virtual Team	68	New entry-	£80,150	-	9 0.69%	7
Linux Command Line	68	Down 26 places-26	£130,000	-	9 0.69%	3
Low-Code	68	New entry-	-	-	9 0.69%
Management Information System	68	Down 20 places-20	£75,000	+11.11%	9 0.69%	6
NHS	69	Down 20 places-20	£32,500	-	8 0.61%	1
Greenfield Project	70	Down 22 places-22	£55,000	-	7 0.54%	3
Acoustics	70	New entry-	£77,500	-	7 0.54%	6
Social Media	70	Down 26 places-26	-	-	7 0.54%	3
Data Centre	70	Down 28 places-28	£80,000	+60.00%	7 0.54%	30
Device Driver	70	New entry-	£67,500	-	7 0.54%	18
Smartphone	71	New entry-	-	-	6 0.46%	4
FMCG	71	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.46%
Mobile Games	71	New entry-	-	-	6 0.46%
Mobile App	72	Down 23 places-23	£140,000	+100.00%	5 0.38%	5
Data Structures	72	Down 24 places-24	£37,500	-64.28%	5 0.38%	7
Raspberry Pi	72	New entry-	£140,000	-	5 0.38%	2
Cyber Defence	73	New entry-	£122,500	-	4 0.31%	2
Educational Technology	73	Down 23 places-23	£80,150	-	4 0.31%
RISC-V	73	New entry-	£70,000	-	4 0.31%	5
Augmented Reality	73	New entry-	£42,500	-	4 0.31%	2
Product Ownership	73	Down 24 places-24	£80,150	-	4 0.31%	8
Security Posture	73	New entry-	£50,763	-	4 0.31%	1
Client/Server	73	Down 24 places-24	£67,000	+34.00%	4 0.31%	2
Media Streaming	74	New entry-	£67,500	-	3 0.23%	1
PCIe	74	New entry-	£120,000	-	3 0.23%	15
Learning Management System	74	New entry-	£50,000	-	3 0.23%
Molecular Biology	74	New entry-	-	-	3 0.23%	1
Manufacturing Execution System	74	New entry-	£32,500	-	3 0.23%
EPoS	74	Down 25 places-25	£30,500	-12.85%	3 0.23%	2
CCTV	75	New entry-	£47,500	-	2 0.15%
State Machine	75	New entry-	£82,500	-	2 0.15%	3