General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North West

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 1 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	12	Up 168 places+168	£60,000	+4.34%	1,503 14.52%	26
Driving Licence	61	Up 105 places+105	£40,000	+17.64%	241 2.33%	89
Onboarding	70	Up 87 places+87	£37,000	-1.33%	210 2.03%	92
Cloud Native	103	Up 43 places+43	£80,000	+6.85%	136 1.31%	59
Self-Motivation	112	Up 16 places+16	£35,442	-25.38%	120 1.16%	95
Data Centre	128	Up 34 places+34	£48,445	-10.28%	101 0.98%	27
Product Ownership	129	Down -32 places-32	£67,500	-	100 0.97%	50
Management Information System	146	Down -44 places-44	£50,000	-12.32%	82 0.79%	50
Cyberattack	149	Down -137 places-137	£55,000	-10.93%	79 0.76%	5
Mobile App	165	Up 4 places+4	£62,500	+4.16%	62 0.60%	26
Distributed Systems	166	Up 7 places+7	£95,000	+18.75%	61 0.59%	28
Marketing Technology	170	New entry-	£100,000	-	57 0.55%	11
Analytical Mindset	177	Down -15 places-15	£45,000	-30.76%	50 0.48%	25
Social Media	179	Down -97 places-97	£39,000	-2.50%	48 0.46%	24
Enterprise Software	182	Down -3 places-3	£64,750	-9.12%	45 0.43%	24
NHS	188	Down -21 places-21	£70,000	+115.38%	39 0.38%	29
Operational Technology	191	Up 4 places+4	£65,000	-23.52%	36 0.35%	5
CCTV	192	Down -6 places-6	£37,500	+10.29%	35 0.34%	28
Hybrid Cloud	194	Down -38 places-38	£65,000	-9.71%	33 0.32%	15
Greenfield Project	195	Down -26 places-26	£62,500	-3.84%	32 0.31%	21
Cyber Threat	196	Down -18 places-18	£72,500	+9.24%	31 0.30%	13
Algorithms	196	Down -34 places-34	£37,500	-56.87%	31 0.30%	11
Enterprise Cloud	200	Down -11 places-11	£71,750	-7.41%	27 0.26%	2
FMCG	202	Down -30 places-30	£55,000	+64.17%	25 0.24%	9
Legacy Systems	203	Down -31 places-31	£63,076	+26.15%	24 0.23%	16
EPoS	204	Down -15 places-15	£30,000	+31.29%	23 0.22%	12
Public Cloud	205	Down -41 places-41	£81,250	+4.92%	22 0.21%	6
PropTech	208	Down -11 places-11	£70,000	+33.33%	19 0.18%	4
AI Agents	208	New entry-	£90,000	-	19 0.18%	21
Blog	209	Down -22 places-22	£20,000	-50.00%	18 0.17%	3
Low-Code	209	Down -12 places-12	£55,500	-33.73%	18 0.17%	9
Legacy Applications	211	Down -11 places-11	£50,000	-50.00%	16 0.15%	4
Renewable Energy	211	Down -31 places-31	£47,500	-13.63%	16 0.15%	8
Life Science	212	Down -29 places-29	£77,500	+3.33%	15 0.14%	21
Security Operations Centre	213	Down -17 places-17	£55,000	-3.08%	14 0.14%	2
Virtual Team	214	Down -19 places-19	£43,750	-22.22%	13 0.13%	7
Security Posture	214	Down -60 places-60	£37,500	-49.91%	13 0.13%	17
e-Learning	215	Down -32 places-32	£35,000	-39.13%	12 0.12%	6
SCADA	215	Down -16 places-16	£52,500	-	12 0.12%	5
Educational Technology	215	Down -17 places-17	£50,000	-37.50%	12 0.12%	5
PMI	215	Down -17 places-17	£85,000	+41.66%	12 0.12%	5
Learning Management System	216	Down -23 places-23	£32,500	-27.77%	11 0.11%	7
Augmented Reality	216	New entry-	£26,000	-	11 0.11%
Embedded Systems	216	Down -26 places-26	£70,000	+27.27%	11 0.11%	11
CMDB	217	Down -22 places-22	£41,000	+3.79%	10 0.097%	3
Industry 4.0	217	Down -18 places-18	£40,000	+14.28%	10 0.097%	3
Data Protection Act	218	Down -61 places-61	£75,000	+158.62%	9 0.087%	2
Distributed Computing	218	New entry-	£60,000	-	9 0.087%	2
Solar Energy	218	New entry-	£40,000	-	9 0.087%
Web Conferencing	218	Down -18 places-18	£37,500	-	9 0.087%	9