General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	18	Up 218 places+218	£55,000	-4.76%	1,664 9.57%	211
Driving Licence	81	Up 84 places+84	£37,000	-16.85%	377 2.17%	175
Onboarding	91	Up 87 places+87	£37,500	-	334 1.92%	178
Cyberattack	121	Down -78 places-78	£30,000	-50.00%	258 1.48%	13
Self-Motivation	131	No change0	£32,500	-22.86%	240 1.38%	167
Cloud Native	140	Up 33 places+33	£75,000	+0.17%	207 1.19%	99
Management Information System	151	Down -69 places-69	£49,950	-9.18%	191 1.10%	76
Product Ownership	170	Down -72 places-72	£65,000	-7.14%	160 0.92%	89
Data Centre	183	Up 1 place+1	£48,445	-11.91%	147 0.85%	41
NHS	192	Up 22 places+22	£60,000	+84.61%	136 0.78%	77
Mobile App	195	Down -7 places-7	£60,000	+29.72%	131 0.75%	52
Social Media	209	Down -86 places-86	£39,000	-7.14%	116 0.67%	48
Analytical Mindset	220	Down -1 place-1	£47,500	-22.44%	103 0.59%	41
Marketing Technology	232	New entry-	£100,000	-	91 0.52%	17
Distributed Systems	233	Down -38 places-38	£77,500	-	90 0.52%	37
FMCG	238	Down -127 places-127	£55,000	+4.76%	84 0.48%	21
Enterprise Software	239	Down -100 places-100	£75,000	+11.11%	83 0.48%	36
Legacy Systems	241	Down -19 places-19	£63,076	+32.79%	81 0.47%	33
Operational Technology	254	Down -41 places-41	£65,000	-	68 0.39%	19
Greenfield Project	264	Down -51 places-51	£62,500	+2.45%	58 0.33%	51
Algorithms	264	Down -61 places-61	£37,500	-47.91%	58 0.33%	39
Hybrid Cloud	266	Down -60 places-60	£63,076	-12.38%	56 0.32%	21
Renewable Energy	271	Down -46 places-46	£40,000	-27.27%	51 0.29%	16
Cyber Threat	272	Down -40 places-40	£72,500	+11.53%	50 0.29%	18
CCTV	275	Down -34 places-34	£40,000	+13.47%	47 0.27%	44
e-Learning	276	Down -41 places-41	£35,000	-28.20%	46 0.26%	22
Data Structures	276	Down -39 places-39	£60,000	-	46 0.26%	35
Public Cloud	277	Down -87 places-87	£75,000	+10.29%	45 0.26%	8
Blog	279	Down -30 places-30	£20,000	-50.00%	43 0.25%	10
Low-Code	281	Down -29 places-29	£61,250	-19.40%	41 0.24%	19
Data Protection Act	282	Down -69 places-69	£57,239	+56.81%	40 0.23%	12
Embedded Systems	285	Down -42 places-42	£56,500	-7.37%	37 0.21%	41
Legacy Applications	285	Down -28 places-28	£50,000	-51.21%	37 0.21%	8
Life Science	285	Down -50 places-50	£42,500	-23.76%	37 0.21%	12
Security Operations Centre	286	Down -29 places-29	£55,000	-	36 0.21%	9
Hedge funds	289	Down -40 places-40	£70,000	-	33 0.19%	7
Learning Management System	289	Down -46 places-46	£42,500	-5.55%	33 0.19%	11
EPoS	289	Down -40 places-40	£30,000	-	33 0.19%	15
Security Posture	290	Down -100 places-100	£57,500	+4.54%	32 0.18%	26
Enterprise Cloud	294	Down -45 places-45	£71,750	+2.50%	28 0.16%	3
Educational Technology	295	Down -42 places-42	£50,000	-16.66%	27 0.16%	11
Cyber Kill Chain	297	Down -39 places-39	-	-	25 0.14%
SCADA	297	Down -66 places-66	£57,500	-11.53%	25 0.14%	26
Virtual Team	297	Down -67 places-67	£43,750	-20.45%	25 0.14%	16
AI Agents	298	New entry-	£100,000	-	24 0.14%	34
Smart Home	298	New entry-	£25,087	-	24 0.14%	2
CMDB	299	Down -51 places-51	£41,000	+12.32%	23 0.13%	9
PMI	299	Down -44 places-44	£63,076	-9.89%	23 0.13%	6
PKI	300	Down -42 places-42	£48,445	-0.31%	22 0.13%	6
Legacy Code	304	Down -49 places-49	£62,500	-12.28%	18 0.10%	1