General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Essex

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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
Driving Licence	27	Up 21 places+21	£37,500	-1.31%	67 4.28%	31
Onboarding	39	Down 9 places-9	£38,750	+38.39%	44 2.81%	11
Self-Motivation	46	Down 15 places-15	£37,500	+25.00%	36 2.30%	11
Management Information System	56	Down 6 places-6	£50,000	+53.84%	26 1.66%	24
Renewable Energy	57	Down 3 places-3	£40,000	-	25 1.60%	2
Enterprise Software	58	Down 13 places-13	£70,000	-7.89%	24 1.53%	4
Biopharmaceutical	58	New entry-	-	-	24 1.53%	4
Social Media	60	Down 6 places-6	£33,500	+39.58%	22 1.40%
CCTV	62	Down 9 places-9	£40,750	+13.19%	20 1.28%	11
Smartphone	63	New entry-	£26,150	-	19 1.21%	1
SCADA	64	New entry-	£50,400	-	18 1.15%	5
Data Centre	64	Down 11 places-11	£65,000	-	18 1.15%	4
FPGA	64	Down 12 places-12	£87,500	+45.83%	18 1.15%	7
Mobile Games	65	New entry-	-	-	17 1.08%
Legacy Code	66	New entry-	£60,000	-	16 1.02%
Legacy Systems	68	New entry-	£62,500	-	14 0.89%	1
Robotics	71	New entry-	£62,500	-	11 0.70%	6
Algorithms	73	Down 25 places-25	£62,500	+101.61%	9 0.57%	8
IoT	74	New entry-	£62,500	-	8 0.51%
Marketing Technology	75	New entry-	£29,000	-	7 0.45%	1
Blog	75	Down 21 places-21	£35,000	+45.83%	7 0.45%	1
Graphic Design	76	New entry-	£35,000	-	6 0.38%
Analogue Electronics	76	Down 21 places-21	£65,000	-	6 0.38%	6
Low-Code	76	Down 22 places-22	£22,500	-50.00%	6 0.38%	4
AI Agents	76	New entry-	-	-	6 0.38%	3
NHS	76	Down 36 places-36	£47,500	-	6 0.38%	2
Smart Home	76	New entry-	£35,500	-	6 0.38%	2
Photography	77	New entry-	£35,000	-	5 0.32%
SystemC	77	New entry-	-	-	5 0.32%
Life Science	77	New entry-	£75,000	-	5 0.32%	2
Analytical Mindset	77	Down 24 places-24	£29,000	-10.76%	5 0.32%	3
Embedded Systems	77	New entry-	£62,500	-	5 0.32%	6
Housing Association	77	New entry-	£40,000	-	5 0.32%
Home Automation	78	New entry-	£52,500	-	4 0.26%	2
EPoS	78	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.26%	4
Acoustics	79	Down 24 places-24	£60,500	-36.31%	3 0.19%	3
Team-Oriented Environment	79	New entry-	-	-	3 0.19%
Freedom of Information	79	Down 24 places-24	£125,000	+305.18%	3 0.19%
Pricing Data	79	New entry-	-	-	3 0.19%
Cloud Native	79	New entry-	£90,000	-	3 0.19%
Device Driver	80	New entry-	£62,500	-	2 0.13%	1
VHDL	80	Down 28 places-28	£67,500	+12.50%	2 0.13%	5
Verilog	80	Down 26 places-26	£67,500	+0.74%	2 0.13%	1
FMCG	80	Down 25 places-25	£31,750	+5.83%	2 0.13%	1
PCIe	80	New entry-	-	-	2 0.13%
Smart Meter	80	New entry-	£38,993	-	2 0.13%
Genomics	80	New entry-	£122,777	-	2 0.13%	2
Product Ownership	80	Down 28 places-28	£48,250	+7.22%	2 0.13%	6
Contactless	80	New entry-	£47,500	-	2 0.13%
Smartcard	80	New entry-	£47,500	-	2 0.13%	1