General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North West

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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	52	Down 4 places-4	£42,500	-12.76%	322 2.48%	94
Onboarding	53	Up 87 places+87	£37,500	+12.78%	304 2.35%	48
Cloud Native	64	Up 88 places+88	£77,500	+3.33%	272 2.10%	40
Self-Motivation	81	Down 26 places-26	£40,000	+6.66%	235 1.81%	42
Product Ownership	100	Down 10 places-10	£55,000	-18.51%	191 1.47%	42
Management Information System	106	Up 25 places+25	£38,000	-6.17%	179 1.38%	63
Enterprise Software	148	Down 33 places-33	£57,500	+43.75%	118 0.91%	18
Data Centre	161	Up 26 places+26	£50,000	-13.04%	104 0.80%	24
AI Agents	184	Up 14 places+14	£90,000	+12.50%	79 0.61%	24
Smartphone	187	New entry-	£44,615	-	76 0.59%	3
FMCG	187	Up 34 places+34	£52,700	-6.31%	76 0.59%	12
Mobile App	188	Up 5 places+5	£55,000	-16.98%	75 0.58%	13
Greenfield Project	192	Up 10 places+10	£60,000	-20.00%	71 0.55%	4
Distributed Systems	192	Up 11 places+11	£77,250	-9.11%	71 0.55%	11
Social Media	193	Down 56 places-56	£30,000	-16.66%	70 0.54%	13
Mobile Games	195	New entry-	-	-	68 0.52%
Online Gambling	196	New entry-	£85,000	-	67 0.52%	28
NHS	202	Up 9 places+9	£48,500	+27.63%	61 0.47%	20
Security Posture	204	Up 15 places+15	£67,500	+50.00%	59 0.46%	13
SCADA	205	Down 7 places-7	£55,000	-8.33%	58 0.45%	23
Life Science	207	Down 6 places-6	£67,500	+87.50%	56 0.43%	6
Marketing Technology	207	Up 16 places+16	£87,500	+25.00%	56 0.43%	7
Operational Technology	209	No change0	£75,450	-8.54%	54 0.42%	26
Hybrid Cloud	211	Down 3 places-3	£65,000	+4.83%	52 0.40%	12
Renewable Energy	212	Down 3 places-3	£40,000	-	51 0.39%	10
CCTV	216	Down 10 places-10	£40,000	+26.98%	47 0.36%	19
Legacy Systems	223	Down 28 places-28	£67,500	-5.26%	40 0.31%	6
Cyber Threat	223	Down 1 place-1	£63,750	+0.39%	40 0.31%	16
Data Structures	224	Down 16 places-16	£50,000	-28.57%	39 0.30%	6
IoT	226	Down 28 places-28	£42,000	-23.63%	37 0.29%	9
Robotics	228	Down 64 places-64	£53,000	-5.13%	35 0.27%	19
Foreign Exchange (FX)	229	Down 21 places-21	£44,000	-41.33%	34 0.26%	4
Web Conferencing	232	Down 7 places-7	£27,581	-31.04%	31 0.24%	7
Private Cloud	233	Down 12 places-12	£80,000	+33.33%	30 0.23%	9
Analytical Mindset	234	Down 62 places-62	£37,500	-7.12%	29 0.22%	4
Cyberattack	235	Down 212 places-212	£35,000	-	28 0.22%	4
Virtual Team	236	Down 22 places-22	£70,000	+21.73%	27 0.21%	5
Video Conferencing	236	Down 28 places-28	£35,000	+16.66%	27 0.21%	2
Learning Management System	238	Down 13 places-13	£45,000	-7.69%	25 0.19%	2
Podcast	238	New entry-	£27,581	-	25 0.19%
Public Cloud	238	Down 22 places-22	£65,538	+63.84%	25 0.19%	3
Analogue Electronics	239	New entry-	£57,500	-	24 0.19%	15
Replication	241	New entry-	£42,500	-	22 0.17%	6
EPoS	241	Down 58 places-58	£38,000	+53.53%	22 0.17%	5
e-Learning	244	Down 33 places-33	£45,000	-30.76%	19 0.15%	6
SystemC	245	Down 18 places-18	-	-	18 0.14%
Video\Live Streaming	246	New entry-	-	-	17 0.13%	17
FPGA	246	Down 22 places-22	£70,000	-6.66%	17 0.13%	7
Blog	247	Down 40 places-40	£34,500	+23.21%	16 0.12%	8
Low-Code	247	Down 26 places-26	£51,250	-14.58%	16 0.12%	6