General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North East

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	47	Up 18 places+18	£57,500	+85.48%	125 3.34%	31
Data Centre	56	Up 13 places+13	£90,000	+50.00%	107 2.86%	9
Cloud Native	68	No change0	£70,000	+7.69%	88 2.35%	48
Driving Licence	75	Down 25 places-25	£40,000	-	79 2.11%	23
Self-Motivation	84	Down 45 places-45	£29,000	+2.88%	67 1.79%	19
Renewable Energy	98	Down 49 places-49	£48,750	+21.87%	50 1.34%	9
Hedge funds	101	Down 33 places-33	£100,000	+5.26%	47 1.26%	6
Product Ownership	103	Down 38 places-38	£57,500	+15.00%	45 1.20%	44
Management Information System	109	Down 39 places-39	£57,500	-26.28%	39 1.04%	21
Distributed Systems	116	Down 38 places-38	£67,500	-8.53%	32 0.85%	15
Legacy Systems	116	Down 39 places-39	£65,000	-10.34%	32 0.85%	3
Web Conferencing	118	Down 40 places-40	£33,500	+7.37%	30 0.80%	4
Embedded Systems	120	Down 45 places-45	£60,500	+7.07%	28 0.75%	12
Robotics	122	Down 63 places-63	£75,000	+76.47%	26 0.69%	23
SCADA	123	Down 55 places-55	£70,000	+55.55%	25 0.67%	13
FMCG	124	Down 89 places-89	£48,500	-	24 0.64%	5
Greenfield Project	124	Down 53 places-53	£55,000	+450.00%	24 0.64%	2
Enterprise Software	125	Down 53 places-53	£67,500	-	23 0.61%	34
Security Posture	127	Down 51 places-51	£48,500	-44.57%	21 0.56%	9
Data Structures	129	Down 51 places-51	£55,000	-	19 0.51%	16
Hybrid Cloud	129	New entry-	£47,000	-	19 0.51%	10
Smartphone	130	Down 57 places-57	£30,000	+20.00%	18 0.48%	2
Distributed Computing	131	New entry-	£85,000	-	17 0.45%	7
IoT	132	Down 54 places-54	£50,000	+25.00%	16 0.43%	16
Smart Home	133	New entry-	£65,000	-	15 0.40%	2
Virtual Team	133	Down 56 places-56	£70,000	+180.00%	15 0.40%	8
Mobile App	133	Down 65 places-65	£47,000	-6.00%	15 0.40%	3
Mobile Games	133	New entry-	-	-	15 0.40%
Social Media	134	Down 66 places-66	£27,000	-40.00%	14 0.37%	4
AI Agents	136	New entry-	£67,500	-	12 0.32%	30
Linux Command Line	137	Down 61 places-61	£47,000	-36.31%	11 0.29%	1
Algorithms	137	New entry-	£59,750	-	11 0.29%	10
Podcast	137	New entry-	£27,581	-	11 0.29%
NHS	138	Down 95 places-95	£55,000	+120.00%	10 0.27%	13
Housing Association	138	New entry-	£60,000	-	10 0.27%
Private Cloud	139	New entry-	£50,000	-	9 0.24%	6
Replication	139	New entry-	£42,500	-	9 0.24%	4
Life Science	140	Down 64 places-64	£67,500	+58.82%	8 0.21%	4
Blog	140	Down 62 places-62	£57,500	+84.29%	8 0.21%	8
PropTech	140	New entry-	£45,000	-	8 0.21%
Distributed Architecture	141	New entry-	£46,500	-	7 0.19%	2
Home Automation	141	New entry-	£65,000	-	7 0.19%	2
CCTV	141	Down 63 places-63	£55,000	+37.50%	7 0.19%	8
Analogue Electronics	141	New entry-	£45,000	-	7 0.19%	6
e-Learning	141	Down 67 places-67	£35,000	+16.66%	7 0.19%
Operational Technology	142	Down 65 places-65	£85,000	-	6 0.16%	20
Educational Technology	142	New entry-	£26,728	-	6 0.16%	7
Analytical Mindset	143	Down 65 places-65	£52,500	-	5 0.13%	1
PKI	143	New entry-	£42,500	-	5 0.13%	4
Cyber Security Posture	143	New entry-	£47,500	-	5 0.13%	2