General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Cambridgeshire

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Robotics	31	Up 15 places+15	£60,000	+9.09%	93 3.97%	32
Cyber Threat	33	Up 39 places+39	£74,000	-	91 3.89%	8
Algorithms	35	Up 9 places+9	£70,000	+27.27%	86 3.68%	20
FPGA	47	Up 18 places+18	£77,500	+13.97%	69 2.95%	31
Driving Licence	49	Up 8 places+8	£33,500	-37.61%	67 2.86%	21
Embedded Systems	52	Up 16 places+16	£69,999	-1.75%	63 2.69%	28
Onboarding	62	Down 15 places-15	£36,250	-36.95%	50 2.14%	9
Self-Motivation	72	Down 28 places-28	£37,500	-	37 1.58%	7
Distributed Systems	78	Down 9 places-9	£80,000	+1.58%	30 1.28%	7
Social Media	85	Down 25 places-25	£28,000	-45.36%	23 0.98%	1
AI Agents	86	New entry-	£105,000	-	22 0.94%	5
Renewable Energy	87	Down 16 places-16	£45,000	-35.71%	21 0.90%	2
FMCG	87	Down 15 places-15	£55,096	+10.19%	21 0.90%	1
Cloud Native	87	Down 25 places-25	£75,000	+15.38%	21 0.90%	6
Enterprise Software	88	Down 33 places-33	£60,000	+37.14%	20 0.85%	7
IoT	88	Down 55 places-55	£85,000	+150.00%	20 0.85%	7
Analogue Electronics	89	Down 17 places-17	£55,000	-	19 0.81%	17
Life Science	92	Down 26 places-26	£60,000	+11.62%	16 0.68%	13
VHDL	92	Down 27 places-27	£80,000	+17.64%	16 0.68%	9
Verilog	92	Down 27 places-27	£55,000	-19.11%	16 0.68%	6
Management Information System	93	Down 27 places-27	£81,250	+20.37%	15 0.64%	17
Device Driver	95	New entry-	£68,750	-	13 0.56%	6
Handset	95	Down 23 places-23	£50,000	-	13 0.56%
Data Centre	96	Down 41 places-41	£80,000	+60.00%	12 0.51%	5
EPoS	96	Down 25 places-25	£27,500	-21.42%	12 0.51%	2
Linux Command Line	97	Down 42 places-42	£130,000	+233.33%	11 0.47%	4
Low-Code	98	Down 30 places-30	£82,500	+26.92%	10 0.43%	3
NHS	98	Down 27 places-27	£32,500	-	10 0.43%	2
Virtual Team	99	Down 27 places-27	£80,150	-13.35%	9 0.38%
Mobile Games	100	New entry-	-	-	8 0.34%
Acoustics	100	New entry-	£73,750	-	8 0.34%	3
Smart Meter	100	New entry-	£60,000	-	8 0.34%	1
Smartphone	100	New entry-	-	-	8 0.34%
Greenfield Project	101	Down 31 places-31	£55,000	-	7 0.30%	2
SCADA	101	Down 41 places-41	£54,500	+14.73%	7 0.30%	16
Mobile App	101	Down 30 places-30	£140,000	+100.00%	7 0.30%	9
Security Posture	101	Down 30 places-30	£50,763	-39.38%	7 0.30%	7
SIMD	102	New entry-	£100,000	-	6 0.26%
Housing Association	102	New entry-	£30,000	-	6 0.26%
Data Structures	102	Down 33 places-33	£52,500	-50.00%	6 0.26%	1
Augmented Reality	102	New entry-	£45,000	-	6 0.26%	1
BBC	103	New entry-	£50,000	-	5 0.21%	1
Raspberry Pi	103	New entry-	£140,000	-	5 0.21%
Blog	104	Down 34 places-34	£54,000	-22.85%	4 0.17%	1
3D Printing	104	New entry-	£40,000	-	4 0.17%	3
Educational Technology	104	Down 32 places-32	£80,150	-	4 0.17%
RISC-V	104	New entry-	£70,000	-	4 0.17%	4
Learning Management System	104	New entry-	£50,000	-	4 0.17%
Product Ownership	104	Down 36 places-36	£80,150	+3.41%	4 0.17%	7
Client/Server	104	Down 33 places-33	£67,000	+34.00%	4 0.17%