General & Transferable Skills Statistics in London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cloud Native	58	Up 73 places+73	£90,000	-5.26%	668 3.33%	257
Product Ownership	66	Up 28 places+28	£82,500	-2.94%	616 3.07%	191
Data Centre	77	Up 124 places+124	£80,000	+10.34%	554 2.76%	213
Onboarding	87	Up 90 places+90	£55,000	-21.42%	506 2.52%	546
IoT	102	Up 235 places+235	£75,000	-7.69%	451 2.25%	68
Management Information System	118	Down -43 places-43	£75,000	+3.44%	393 1.96%	175
Self-Motivation	139	Up 29 places+29	£55,000	-4.55%	342 1.71%	241
Distributed Systems	144	Up 58 places+58	£100,000	+6.66%	330 1.65%	184
Social Media	172	Up 3 places+3	£42,500	-2.85%	276 1.38%	95
Data Structures	202	Up 73 places+73	£85,000	-5.55%	227 1.13%	104
Security Posture	204	Up 60 places+60	£73,500	-13.52%	222 1.11%	69
Greenfield Project	208	Up 59 places+59	£85,000	-10.52%	217 1.08%	64
Algorithms	223	Down -43 places-43	£95,000	-7.31%	201 1.00%	115
Enterprise Software	227	Up 18 places+18	£80,000	-1.53%	197 0.98%	130
Fixed Income	242	Down -205 places-205	£112,500	-2.17%	175 0.87%	35
Foreign Exchange (FX)	247	Down -153 places-153	£100,000	-13.04%	168 0.84%	74
Mobile App	251	Down -19 places-19	£72,500	+11.53%	162 0.81%	106
AI Agents	252	Up 138 places+138	£95,000	-	161 0.80%	213
Public Cloud	254	Up 31 places+31	£85,000	+6.25%	159 0.79%	22
Hedge funds	263	Down -178 places-178	£100,000	-13.04%	149 0.74%	87
Legacy Systems	274	Up 16 places+16	£75,000	+5.26%	137 0.68%	88
Analytical Mindset	283	Down -12 places-12	£65,000	-13.33%	126 0.63%	118
Cyber Threat	284	Up 19 places+19	£75,000	-9.09%	125 0.62%	55
Driving Licence	286	Up 65 places+65	£42,500	-	123 0.61%	81
Equities	288	Down -182 places-182	£102,500	-10.86%	121 0.60%	58
Derivative	289	Down -185 places-185	£100,000	-13.04%	120 0.60%	69
Low-Code	290	Up 69 places+69	£65,000	-10.34%	119 0.59%	59
Blog	291	Up 41 places+41	£48,373	-30.89%	118 0.59%	39
Hybrid Cloud	294	Up 19 places+19	£85,000	+17.24%	115 0.57%	39
Virtual Team	304	Down -9 places-9	£75,000	-	105 0.52%	113
Over-the-Top Content	306	Up 88 places+88	£115,000	+43.75%	103 0.51%	6
Video Conferencing	308	Up 21 places+21	£41,250	-14.94%	101 0.50%	34
Cyber Defence	314	Up 56 places+56	£70,000	+7.69%	95 0.47%	11
Blockchain	315	Down -14 places-14	£100,000	-11.11%	94 0.47%	55
Marketing Technology	315	Up 22 places+22	£70,000	+7.69%	94 0.47%	71
Enterprise Cloud	320	Up 66 places+66	£90,000	+5.88%	88 0.44%	24
Life Science	324	Down -15 places-15	£80,000	-3.03%	84 0.42%	124
Video\Live Streaming	330	Up 56 places+56	£73,500	+1.37%	78 0.39%	13
CCTV	332	Up 25 places+25	£42,500	+10.38%	76 0.38%	60
Web Conferencing	332	Up 32 places+32	£50,000	-	76 0.38%	50
Reinsurance	333	Down -36 places-36	£75,000	-6.25%	75 0.37%	29
FMCG	339	Up 21 places+21	£60,000	-22.58%	69 0.34%	30
CMDB	340	Up 11 places+11	£70,000	+21.73%	68 0.34%	20
e-Learning	342	Up 22 places+22	£62,500	+25.00%	66 0.33%	25
Educational Technology	344	Up 30 places+30	£62,500	-7.40%	64 0.32%	40
Distributed Architecture	347	Up 42 places+42	£115,000	+80.39%	61 0.30%	10
Robotics	349	Down -50 places-50	£75,000	-50.00%	59 0.29%	43
NHS	349	Down -29 places-29	£69,559	+20.97%	59 0.29%	65
PKI	351	Up 23 places+23	£70,000	-3.44%	57 0.28%	18
Data Protection Act	353	Down -38 places-38	£65,000	-27.77%	55 0.27%	6