General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	17	Up 219 places+219	£55,000	-4.76%	1,665 9.41%	300
Driving Licence	83	Up 84 places+84	£37,500	-16.66%	376 2.13%	168
Onboarding	89	Up 86 places+86	£37,500	-	336 1.90%	175
Cyberattack	109	Down -75 places-75	£30,000	-50.00%	273 1.54%	12
Self-Motivation	127	Down -9 places-9	£32,500	-14.32%	240 1.36%	164
Cloud Native	134	Up 40 places+40	£75,000	+0.17%	211 1.19%	100
Management Information System	150	Down -69 places-69	£50,000	-9.09%	187 1.06%	73
Product Ownership	164	Down -69 places-69	£61,500	-14.57%	165 0.93%	100
Data Centre	174	Up 10 places+10	£48,445	-11.91%	151 0.85%	57
NHS	183	Up 30 places+30	£60,000	+84.61%	137 0.77%	67
Mobile App	186	Down -1 place-1	£58,750	+20.51%	134 0.76%	57
Social Media	200	Down -90 places-90	£39,000	-7.14%	117 0.66%	41
Analytical Mindset	210	Up 7 places+7	£47,500	-24.00%	105 0.59%	47
Marketing Technology	222	New entry-	£100,000	-	93 0.53%	17
Distributed Systems	223	Down -30 places-30	£77,500	-	92 0.52%	37
Enterprise Software	228	Down -93 places-93	£75,000	+11.11%	87 0.49%	34
FMCG	231	Down -126 places-126	£55,000	+4.76%	84 0.47%	18
Legacy Systems	234	Down -14 places-14	£63,076	+26.15%	81 0.46%	39
Operational Technology	247	Down -34 places-34	£65,000	-	67 0.38%	15
Greenfield Project	248	Down -33 places-33	£65,000	+5.26%	66 0.37%	46
Algorithms	255	Down -53 places-53	£37,500	-47.91%	59 0.33%	34
Hybrid Cloud	257	Down -53 places-53	£63,076	-12.38%	57 0.32%	28
Cyber Threat	262	Down -32 places-32	£72,500	+11.53%	52 0.29%	19
Renewable Energy	264	Down -40 places-40	£40,000	-27.27%	50 0.28%	15
CCTV	267	Down -26 places-26	£40,000	+9.58%	47 0.27%	45
Data Structures	267	Down -33 places-33	£60,000	-	47 0.27%	33
Public Cloud	269	Down -79 places-79	£75,000	+10.29%	45 0.25%	11
e-Learning	270	Down -36 places-36	£35,000	-28.20%	44 0.25%	17
Data Protection Act	273	Down -63 places-63	£57,239	+56.81%	41 0.23%	12
Low-Code	273	Down -20 places-20	£62,500	-17.76%	41 0.23%	20
Life Science	275	Down -41 places-41	£45,000	-19.28%	39 0.22%	22
Blog	275	Down -27 places-27	£20,000	-50.00%	39 0.22%	11
Legacy Applications	276	Down -20 places-20	£54,223	-47.09%	38 0.21%	9
Embedded Systems	277	Down -36 places-36	£55,000	-9.83%	37 0.21%	33
Security Operations Centre	278	Down -22 places-22	£55,000	-	36 0.20%	9
Learning Management System	279	Down -38 places-38	£42,500	-5.55%	35 0.20%	10
Hedge funds	281	Down -33 places-33	£70,000	-	33 0.19%	6
EPoS	281	Down -35 places-35	£30,000	+10.09%	33 0.19%	14
Security Posture	282	Down -92 places-92	£59,000	+7.27%	32 0.18%	24
Enterprise Cloud	284	Down -36 places-36	£73,500	+5.00%	30 0.17%	4
Educational Technology	287	Down -35 places-35	£50,000	-16.66%	27 0.15%	10
Cyber Kill Chain	289	Down -32 places-32	-	-	25 0.14%
AI Agents	290	New entry-	£100,000	-	24 0.14%	35
SCADA	290	Down -60 places-60	£57,500	-11.53%	24 0.14%	27
Virtual Team	290	Down -61 places-61	£43,750	-20.45%	24 0.14%	18
Smart Home	290	New entry-	£25,087	-	24 0.14%	2
CMDB	291	Down -44 places-44	£41,000	+12.32%	23 0.13%	11
PMI	291	Down -37 places-37	£63,076	-9.89%	23 0.13%	4
PKI	292	Down -34 places-34	£48,445	+8.37%	22 0.12%	6
PropTech	294	Down -37 places-37	£70,000	+40.00%	20 0.11%	9