General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Cambridgeshire

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Robotics	31	Up 13 places+13	£60,000	+9.09%	93 4.01%	29
Cyber Threat	32	Up 38 places+38	£74,000	-	90 3.88%	7
Algorithms	34	Up 8 places+8	£70,000	+27.27%	85 3.66%	14
Driving Licence	46	Up 10 places+10	£33,000	-38.54%	66 2.84%	16
FPGA	46	Up 17 places+17	£76,250	+12.13%	66 2.84%	28
Embedded Systems	51	Up 16 places+16	£68,750	-3.50%	60 2.59%	30
Onboarding	61	Down 16 places-16	£35,000	-39.13%	49 2.11%	6
Self-Motivation	70	Down 29 places-29	£37,500	-	37 1.59%	6
Distributed Systems	78	Down 11 places-11	£80,000	+1.58%	29 1.25%	3
Social Media	84	Down 27 places-27	£28,000	-45.36%	23 0.99%
AI Agents	85	New entry-	£105,000	-	22 0.95%	1
FMCG	86	Down 16 places-16	£55,096	+10.19%	21 0.91%	2
IoT	87	Down 56 places-56	£85,000	+150.00%	20 0.86%	7
Cloud Native	87	Down 27 places-27	£75,000	+15.38%	20 0.86%	3
Renewable Energy	87	Down 18 places-18	£45,000	-35.71%	20 0.86%	2
Analogue Electronics	88	Down 18 places-18	£55,000	-	19 0.82%	17
VHDL	91	Down 28 places-28	£80,000	+17.64%	16 0.69%	7
Verilog	91	Down 28 places-28	£55,000	-19.11%	16 0.69%	6
Life Science	92	Down 28 places-28	£60,000	+11.62%	15 0.65%	8
Enterprise Software	92	Down 40 places-40	£60,000	+37.14%	15 0.65%	8
Management Information System	92	Down 28 places-28	£81,250	+20.37%	15 0.65%	5
Handset	94	Down 24 places-24	£50,000	-	13 0.56%
Data Centre	95	Down 42 places-42	£80,000	+60.00%	12 0.52%	4
EPoS	95	Down 26 places-26	£27,500	-21.42%	12 0.52%	1
Device Driver	95	New entry-	£67,500	-	12 0.52%	6
Linux Command Line	96	Down 43 places-43	£130,000	+233.33%	11 0.47%	5
NHS	96	Down 27 places-27	£32,500	-	11 0.47%	3
Low-Code	97	Down 31 places-31	£82,500	+26.92%	10 0.43%
Virtual Team	98	Down 28 places-28	£80,150	-13.35%	9 0.39%
Smartphone	99	New entry-	-	-	8 0.34%
Acoustics	99	New entry-	£73,750	-	8 0.34%	2
Mobile Games	99	New entry-	-	-	8 0.34%
Housing Association	100	New entry-	£30,000	-	7 0.30%
Mobile App	100	Down 31 places-31	£140,000	+100.00%	7 0.30%	3
Security Posture	100	Down 31 places-31	£50,763	-39.38%	7 0.30%	1
Smart Meter	100	New entry-	£60,000	-	7 0.30%
Greenfield Project	100	Down 32 places-32	£55,000	-	7 0.30%	1
SCADA	100	Down 42 places-42	£54,500	+14.73%	7 0.30%	9
Data Structures	101	Down 34 places-34	£52,500	-50.00%	6 0.26%
Augmented Reality	101	New entry-	£45,000	-	6 0.26%	1
SIMD	101	New entry-	£100,000	-	6 0.26%
Raspberry Pi	102	New entry-	£140,000	-	5 0.22%
BBC	102	New entry-	£50,000	-	5 0.22%
Blog	103	Down 35 places-35	£54,000	-22.85%	4 0.17%	1
Educational Technology	103	Down 33 places-33	£80,150	-	4 0.17%
RISC-V	103	New entry-	£70,000	-	4 0.17%	2
3D Printing	103	New entry-	£40,000	-	4 0.17%	2
Product Ownership	103	Down 37 places-37	£80,150	+3.41%	4 0.17%	2
Learning Management System	103	New entry-	£50,000	-	4 0.17%
Client/Server	103	Down 34 places-34	£67,000	+34.00%	4 0.17%