General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Durham

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	7	Up 27 places+27	£40,000	-	53 9.98%	5
Embedded Systems	29	New entry-	£70,000	-	20 3.77%	2
Management Information System	29	New entry-	£57,500	-	20 3.77%	6
Robotics	30	New entry-	£48,922	-	19 3.58%	2
Self-Motivation	32	Down 9 places-9	£36,331	+28.88%	17 3.20%	1
FMCG	33	Down 24 places-24	£47,700	-	16 3.01%	1
SCADA	34	No change0	£85,000	+88.88%	15 2.82%	2
Security Posture	35	New entry-	£50,000	-	14 2.64%
Driving Licence	36	New entry-	£38,000	-	13 2.45%	7
Greenfield Project	40	Down 6 places-6	£52,500	-	9 1.69%
MMIC	41	New entry-	£65,000	-	8 1.51%	3
Home Automation	41	New entry-	£65,000	-	8 1.51%
Smart Home	41	New entry-	£65,000	-	8 1.51%
Smartphone	42	Down 12 places-12	£30,000	+20.00%	7 1.32%
Operational Technology	44	New entry-	£85,000	-	5 0.94%	7
NHS	44	Down 10 places-10	£55,000	+205.55%	5 0.94%	1
Legacy Systems	45	Down 11 places-11	£46,500	-15.76%	4 0.75%	2
Mobile Games	45	New entry-	-	-	4 0.75%
Distributed Architecture	46	New entry-	£46,500	-	3 0.57%
Mobile App	46	New entry-	£30,939	-	3 0.57%
Cloud Native	46	Down 18 places-18	£46,500	-38.00%	3 0.57%	2
Distributed Systems	47	Down 13 places-13	£71,991	-2.45%	2 0.38%	1
Product Ownership	47	Down 14 places-14	£89,250	+19.00%	2 0.38%
Self-Driving Car	47	New entry-	£43,265	-	2 0.38%
Data Protection Act	47	New entry-	£75,000	-	2 0.38%
Web Conferencing	47	Down 13 places-13	£35,000	+12.17%	2 0.38%
3D Printing	47	New entry-	£43,265	-	2 0.38%	1
IoT	47	New entry-	£30,939	-	2 0.38%	1
Renewable Energy	48	Down 16 places-16	£57,500	-	1 0.19%	1
Analytical Mindset	48	New entry-	£50,000	-	1 0.19%
CCTV	48	Down 14 places-14	-	-	1 0.19%
Educational Technology	48	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.19%
Biopharmaceutical	48	New entry-	£62,500	-	1 0.19%	3
Manufacturing Execution System	48	New entry-	-	-	1 0.19%
AI Agents	48	New entry-	-	-	1 0.19%	2
Arduino	48	New entry-	-	-	1 0.19%
Raspberry Pi	48	New entry-	£42,000	-	1 0.19%
Data Centre	48	New entry-	-	-	1 0.19%
Cyber Threat	48	New entry-	-	-	1 0.19%	5
e-Learning	48	New entry-	£29,736	-	1 0.19%