General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

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	17	Up 214 places+214	£55,000	-5.17%	1,667 9.14%	43
Driving Licence	84	Up 77 places+77	£38,500	-23.00%	375 2.06%	183
Onboarding	90	Up 77 places+77	£37,500	+2.04%	343 1.88%	171
Cyberattack	110	Down -83 places-83	£30,000	-52.00%	278 1.52%	18
Self-Motivation	133	Down -10 places-10	£32,500	-13.33%	228 1.25%	180
Cloud Native	136	Up 32 places+32	£75,920	+1.40%	217 1.19%	84
Management Information System	159	Down -76 places-76	£50,000	-9.09%	177 0.97%	80
Product Ownership	162	Down -63 places-63	£61,500	-14.57%	174 0.95%	111
Data Centre	171	Up 10 places+10	£48,445	-11.91%	158 0.87%	61
NHS	177	Up 32 places+32	£60,000	+84.61%	148 0.81%	78
Mobile App	189	Down -9 places-9	£58,750	+30.55%	133 0.73%	50
Social Media	206	Down -95 places-95	£38,500	-8.33%	114 0.62%	48
Marketing Technology	219	New entry-	£100,000	-	100 0.55%	15
Analytical Mindset	225	Down -11 places-11	£55,000	-12.00%	93 0.51%	43
Distributed Systems	229	Down -41 places-41	£80,000	+3.22%	89 0.49%	39
FMCG	231	Down -120 places-120	£55,000	+4.76%	87 0.48%	25
Enterprise Software	231	Down -93 places-93	£75,000	+13.20%	87 0.48%	31
Legacy Systems	234	Down -20 places-20	£63,076	+26.15%	84 0.46%	37
Greenfield Project	247	Down -34 places-34	£67,249	+5.48%	71 0.39%	34
CCTV	251	Down -15 places-15	£40,000	+9.58%	67 0.37%	61
Operational Technology	253	Down -41 places-41	£65,000	-	65 0.36%	14
Algorithms	257	Down -61 places-61	£37,500	-47.91%	61 0.33%	30
Hybrid Cloud	257	Down -62 places-62	£63,076	-12.38%	61 0.33%	24
Cyber Threat	270	Down -46 places-46	£72,500	+11.53%	48 0.26%	19
e-Learning	271	Down -42 places-42	£35,000	-28.20%	47 0.26%	16
Renewable Energy	271	Down -52 places-52	£40,000	-27.27%	47 0.26%	21
Low-Code	273	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	-21.05%	45 0.25%	15
Data Structures	274	Down -45 places-45	£57,500	-4.16%	44 0.24%	30
Public Cloud	275	Down -88 places-88	£70,932	+4.31%	43 0.24%	12
Data Protection Act	276	Down -70 places-70	£57,239	+58.99%	42 0.23%	8
Legacy Applications	277	Down -26 places-26	£50,000	-51.21%	41 0.22%	5
Life Science	279	Down -49 places-49	£45,000	-20.35%	39 0.21%	33
Embedded Systems	282	Down -46 places-46	£55,000	-9.83%	36 0.20%	29
Learning Management System	283	Down -50 places-50	£42,500	-5.55%	35 0.19%	11
Blog	283	Down -40 places-40	£20,000	-50.00%	35 0.19%	9
Security Posture	284	Down -96 places-96	£59,000	+7.27%	34 0.19%	30
Hedge funds	285	Down -42 places-42	£70,000	-	33 0.18%	8
Enterprise Cloud	287	Down -44 places-44	£73,500	+5.00%	31 0.17%	2
Security Operations Centre	288	Down -36 places-36	£55,000	-3.08%	30 0.16%	7
EPoS	289	Down -49 places-49	£30,000	+22.44%	29 0.16%	18
Educational Technology	291	Down -45 places-45	£50,000	-13.04%	27 0.15%	13
AI Agents	291	New entry-	£98,750	-	27 0.15%	37
PropTech	292	Down -40 places-40	£45,000	-10.00%	26 0.14%	12
SCADA	295	Down -71 places-71	£57,500	-11.53%	23 0.13%	16
CMDB	295	Down -57 places-57	£41,000	+12.32%	23 0.13%	10
Virtual Team	295	Down -71 places-71	£50,000	-9.09%	23 0.13%	19
Smart Home	295	New entry-	£25,087	-	23 0.13%	2
PMI	296	Down -47 places-47	£69,038	-1.37%	22 0.12%	10
PKI	296	Down -43 places-43	£48,445	+8.37%	22 0.12%	3
Web Conferencing	298	Down -46 places-46	£63,500	+5.83%	20 0.11%	24