General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Cambridgeshire

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Robotics	29	Up 15 places+15	£60,000	+9.09%	87 3.88%	79
Algorithms	31	Up 12 places+12	£70,000	+27.27%	84 3.75%	70
Cyber Threat	33	New entry-	£74,000	-	82 3.66%	21
Driving Licence	45	Up 8 places+8	£32,650	-26.83%	63 2.81%	31
FPGA	50	Up 10 places+10	£75,000	+10.29%	56 2.50%	101
Embedded Systems	50	Up 20 places+20	£67,500	-10.00%	56 2.50%	93
Onboarding	59	Down 1 place-1	£34,500	-40.00%	45 2.01%	47
Self-Motivation	68	Down 27 places-27	£37,500	+14.50%	36 1.61%	37
Distributed Systems	80	Down 12 places-12	£80,000	+3.22%	24 1.07%	27
Social Media	81	Down 26 places-26	£28,000	-45.36%	23 1.03%	2
FMCG	82	Down 12 places-12	£55,250	+10.50%	22 0.98%	3
AI Agents	84	New entry-	£105,000	-	20 0.89%	48
Analogue Electronics	87	Down 17 places-17	£55,000	-	17 0.76%	45
IoT	87	Down 49 places-49	£86,250	+88.52%	17 0.76%	52
Cloud Native	87	Down 24 places-24	£75,000	+15.38%	17 0.76%	42
Renewable Energy	90	Down 21 places-21	£45,000	-35.71%	14 0.63%	4
Life Science	90	Down 26 places-26	£60,000	+11.62%	14 0.63%	60
Enterprise Software	90	Down 38 places-38	£60,000	+118.18%	14 0.63%	22
Management Information System	91	Down 27 places-27	£87,500	+29.62%	13 0.58%	18
Handset	91	Down 21 places-21	£50,000	-	13 0.58%
VHDL	91	Down 31 places-31	£80,000	+17.64%	13 0.58%	32
Verilog	91	Down 31 places-31	£52,500	-22.79%	13 0.58%	39
EPoS	92	Down 23 places-23	£27,500	-21.42%	12 0.54%	1
Device Driver	93	New entry-	£67,500	-	11 0.49%	13
Data Centre	93	Down 38 places-38	£80,000	+60.00%	11 0.49%	31
NHS	94	Down 27 places-27	£30,000	-40.00%	10 0.45%	12
Linux Command Line	94	Down 35 places-35	£130,000	+233.33%	10 0.45%	8
Low-Code	94	Down 28 places-28	£82,500	+26.92%	10 0.45%	2
Virtual Team	95	New entry-	£80,150	-	9 0.40%	20
Smartphone	96	New entry-	-	-	8 0.36%	6
Mobile Games	96	New entry-	-	-	8 0.36%
Acoustics	96	New entry-	£73,750	-	8 0.36%	4
Mobile App	96	Down 27 places-27	£140,000	+100.00%	8 0.36%	8
Product Ownership	96	Down 29 places-29	£60,100	-22.45%	8 0.36%	25
Security Posture	96	New entry-	£50,763	-	8 0.36%	11
Housing Association	97	New entry-	£30,000	-	7 0.31%
Greenfield Project	98	Down 30 places-30	£55,000	-	6 0.27%	2
BBC	98	New entry-	£50,000	-	6 0.27%
SCADA	98	Down 40 places-40	£54,500	+14.73%	6 0.27%	29
SIMD	98	New entry-	£100,000	-	6 0.27%	4
Data Structures	98	Down 31 places-31	£52,500	-50.00%	6 0.27%	10
Blog	99	Down 31 places-31	£54,000	-22.85%	5 0.22%	8
RISC-V	99	New entry-	£70,000	-	5 0.22%	9
Learning Management System	99	New entry-	£50,000	-	5 0.22%
Augmented Reality	99	New entry-	£45,000	-	5 0.22%	4
PKI	100	Down 30 places-30	-	-	4 0.18%	5
Cyber Kill Chain	100	New entry-	-	-	4 0.18%
Educational Technology	100	New entry-	£80,150	-	4 0.18%
Smart Meter	100	New entry-	£60,000	-	4 0.18%	3
Raspberry Pi	100	New entry-	£140,000	-	4 0.18%	9