General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the East of England

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	26	Down 6 places-6	£37,500	-6.25%	418 4.74%	93
Onboarding	42	Up 42 places+42	£40,000	-14.89%	281 3.19%	33
Self-Motivation	52	Down 18 places-18	£37,500	-	237 2.69%	35
Robotics	72	Up 51 places+51	£60,000	+9.09%	166 1.88%	69
Management Information System	87	Up 25 places+25	£41,739	+19.25%	145 1.64%	71
Data Centre	95	Up 5 places+5	£60,000	-4.00%	130 1.47%	12
Algorithms	98	Up 7 places+7	£67,500	+22.72%	124 1.41%	33
Cyber Threat	106	Up 56 places+56	£70,000	+21.73%	113 1.28%	17
Social Media	116	Up 9 places+9	£33,500	+3.07%	98 1.11%	7
FPGA	117	Up 30 places+30	£76,250	+12.13%	97 1.10%	58
Embedded Systems	121	Up 40 places+40	£70,000	-6.66%	93 1.05%	47
SCADA	129	Up 19 places+19	£55,750	+17.36%	83 0.94%	26
Renewable Energy	133	Up 28 places+28	£45,000	-25.00%	79 0.90%	8
FMCG	138	Up 9 places+9	£50,000	+5.26%	74 0.84%	14
CCTV	144	Up 1 place+1	£40,000	+11.11%	68 0.77%	20
Enterprise Software	146	Down 26 places-26	£61,250	-19.40%	66 0.75%	15
Cloud Native	158	Down 15 places-15	£72,500	-2.68%	54 0.61%	5
Smartphone	162	New entry-	£64,000	-	50 0.57%	3
Analogue Electronics	162	Up 1 place+1	£56,250	-13.46%	50 0.57%	46
AI Agents	168	New entry-	£105,000	-	44 0.50%	5
IoT	170	Down 66 places-66	£80,000	+39.13%	42 0.48%	13
Mobile Games	173	New entry-	-	-	39 0.44%
Distributed Systems	178	Down 21 places-21	£80,000	-1.53%	34 0.39%	5
Product Ownership	178	Down 52 places-52	£65,000	+13.04%	34 0.39%	21
Greenfield Project	180	Down 23 places-23	£55,000	-	32 0.36%	4
Legacy Systems	180	Down 26 places-26	£50,000	-20.00%	32 0.36%	7
Life Science	181	Down 26 places-26	£65,000	+20.93%	31 0.35%	10
Marketing Technology	183	Down 19 places-19	£29,000	-44.76%	29 0.33%
NHS	184	Down 41 places-41	£35,000	-41.66%	28 0.32%	14
Security Posture	186	Down 25 places-25	£64,025	-6.87%	26 0.29%	13
Operational Technology	186	Down 30 places-30	£60,000	-	26 0.29%	9
Mobile App	186	Down 26 places-26	£60,000	+2.12%	26 0.29%	6
Housing Association	188	New entry-	£37,000	-	24 0.27%
Acoustics	188	Down 24 places-24	£60,000	-36.84%	24 0.27%	3
Hybrid Cloud	188	Down 44 places-44	£60,000	-4.00%	24 0.27%	4
Biopharmaceutical	189	Down 31 places-31	-	-	23 0.26%	6
Security Operations Centre	189	Down 43 places-43	£55,000	-26.66%	23 0.26%	2
Low-Code	190	Down 34 places-34	£70,000	+7.69%	22 0.25%	3
VHDL	191	Down 43 places-43	£75,000	+10.29%	21 0.24%	22
Verilog	191	Down 39 places-39	£67,500	-0.73%	21 0.24%	11
EPoS	194	Down 31 places-31	£30,500	-12.85%	18 0.20%	5
Linux Command Line	196	Down 50 places-50	£51,359	+31.68%	16 0.18%	7
Replication	197	Down 33 places-33	£50,000	-33.33%	15 0.17%	2
Clustering	197	Down 37 places-37	£80,000	+45.45%	15 0.17%	1
Legacy Code	197	Down 33 places-33	£60,000	-	15 0.17%	1
Smart Home	197	Down 34 places-34	£37,500	-6.25%	15 0.17%	2
Device Driver	198	New entry-	£67,500	-	14 0.16%	7
Smart Meter	198	New entry-	£60,000	-	14 0.16%	2
Handset	199	Down 35 places-35	£50,000	-	13 0.15%
Client/Server	199	Down 41 places-41	£50,000	-	13 0.15%	5