General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 17 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	17	Up 219 places+219	£52,500	-9.09%	1,666 9.68%	225
Driving Licence	80	Up 78 places+78	£35,750	-10.62%	378 2.20%	166
Onboarding	90	Up 87 places+87	£37,500	-	327 1.90%	180
Cyberattack	118	Down -77 places-77	£30,000	-50.00%	257 1.49%	13
Self-Motivation	126	Up 3 places+3	£32,500	-23.19%	237 1.38%	160
Cloud Native	136	Up 39 places+39	£75,000	+0.17%	206 1.20%	102
Management Information System	150	Down -72 places-72	£49,900	-9.27%	187 1.09%	74
Product Ownership	169	Down -75 places-75	£66,250	-5.35%	159 0.92%	85
Data Centre	179	Up 3 places+3	£48,445	-11.91%	147 0.85%	43
NHS	190	Up 23 places+23	£60,000	+84.61%	132 0.77%	79
Mobile App	191	Down -2 places-2	£60,000	+26.31%	130 0.76%	59
Social Media	202	Down -82 places-82	£39,000	-7.14%	118 0.69%	52
Analytical Mindset	215	Up 4 places+4	£47,500	-22.44%	103 0.60%	37
Marketing Technology	227	New entry-	£100,000	-	90 0.52%	17
Distributed Systems	228	Down -32 places-32	£77,500	-	89 0.52%	33
FMCG	233	Down -127 places-127	£55,000	+4.76%	84 0.49%	21
Enterprise Software	235	Down -98 places-98	£75,000	+11.11%	82 0.48%	36
Legacy Systems	237	Down -15 places-15	£63,076	+32.79%	80 0.46%	33
Operational Technology	250	Down -37 places-37	£65,000	-	67 0.39%	13
Algorithms	261	Down -58 places-58	£37,500	-47.91%	56 0.33%	35
Hybrid Cloud	261	Down -55 places-55	£63,076	-12.38%	56 0.33%	18
Greenfield Project	262	Down -49 places-49	£62,500	+2.45%	55 0.32%	49
Renewable Energy	266	Down -41 places-41	£40,000	-27.27%	51 0.30%	15
Cyber Threat	267	Down -35 places-35	£72,500	+11.53%	50 0.29%	15
CCTV	270	Down -29 places-29	£40,000	+13.47%	47 0.27%	44
e-Learning	271	Down -36 places-36	£35,000	-28.20%	46 0.27%	18
Data Structures	272	Down -35 places-35	£60,000	-	45 0.26%	31
Public Cloud	272	Down -82 places-82	£75,000	+10.29%	45 0.26%	14
Blog	274	Down -24 places-24	£20,000	-50.00%	43 0.25%	11
Low-Code	276	Down -25 places-25	£61,250	-13.12%	41 0.24%	17
Data Protection Act	277	Down -67 places-67	£57,239	+32.34%	40 0.23%	11
Embedded Systems	280	Down -37 places-37	£56,500	-7.37%	37 0.22%	25
Legacy Applications	280	Down -24 places-24	£50,000	-50.00%	37 0.22%	10
Life Science	280	Down -45 places-45	£42,500	-23.76%	37 0.22%	16
Security Operations Centre	281	Down -24 places-24	£55,000	-	36 0.21%	8
EPoS	284	Down -35 places-35	£30,000	-	33 0.19%	14
Hedge funds	284	Down -35 places-35	£70,000	-	33 0.19%	6
Learning Management System	285	Down -42 places-42	£40,000	-11.11%	32 0.19%	9
Security Posture	286	Down -98 places-98	£57,500	+4.54%	31 0.18%	29
Enterprise Cloud	289	Down -40 places-40	£71,750	+2.50%	28 0.16%	3
Educational Technology	290	Down -37 places-37	£50,000	-16.66%	27 0.16%	10
Virtual Team	292	Down -62 places-62	£43,750	-20.45%	25 0.15%	15
Cyber Kill Chain	292	Down -34 places-34	-	-	25 0.15%
SCADA	292	Down -61 places-61	£57,500	-11.53%	25 0.15%	25
Smart Home	293	New entry-	£25,087	-	24 0.14%	2
AI Agents	293	New entry-	£100,000	-	24 0.14%	27
CMDB	294	Down -46 places-46	£41,000	+12.32%	23 0.13%	8
PMI	295	Down -40 places-40	£63,076	-9.89%	22 0.13%	6
PKI	295	Down -37 places-37	£48,445	-0.31%	22 0.13%	4
Legacy Code	299	Down -44 places-44	£62,500	-12.28%	18 0.10%	1