General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	18	Up 217 places+217	£55,000	-4.76%	1,664 9.43%	297
Driving Licence	82	Up 85 places+85	£37,500	-15.73%	372 2.11%	169
Onboarding	91	Up 85 places+85	£37,500	-	335 1.90%	207
Cyberattack	112	Down -80 places-80	£30,000	-50.00%	273 1.55%	12
Self-Motivation	129	Down -7 places-7	£33,000	-19.51%	241 1.37%	167
Cloud Native	138	Up 35 places+35	£75,000	+0.17%	212 1.20%	100
Management Information System	157	Down -77 places-77	£50,000	-9.09%	186 1.05%	74
Product Ownership	171	Down -78 places-78	£65,000	-9.71%	163 0.92%	93
Data Centre	181	No change0	£48,445	-11.91%	151 0.86%	54
NHS	191	Up 21 places+21	£60,000	+84.61%	136 0.77%	63
Mobile App	195	Down -9 places-9	£57,500	+15.00%	132 0.75%	58
Social Media	208	Down -92 places-92	£39,000	-7.14%	117 0.66%	42
Analytical Mindset	219	Down -2 places-2	£47,500	-22.44%	105 0.60%	46
Distributed Systems	231	Down -39 places-39	£76,250	-1.61%	93 0.53%	37
Marketing Technology	232	New entry-	£100,000	-	92 0.52%	17
Enterprise Software	239	Down -105 places-105	£75,000	+11.11%	85 0.48%	34
FMCG	240	Down -135 places-135	£55,000	+4.76%	84 0.48%	17
Legacy Systems	243	Down -25 places-25	£63,076	+26.15%	81 0.46%	39
Operational Technology	255	Down -43 places-43	£65,000	-	67 0.38%	17
Greenfield Project	260	Down -49 places-49	£63,000	+3.27%	62 0.35%	44
Algorithms	263	Down -63 places-63	£37,500	-47.91%	59 0.33%	34
Hybrid Cloud	265	Down -61 places-61	£63,076	-12.38%	57 0.32%	28
Cyber Threat	270	Down -41 places-41	£72,500	+11.53%	52 0.29%	20
Renewable Energy	272	Down -49 places-49	£40,000	-27.27%	50 0.28%	15
CCTV	275	Down -35 places-35	£40,000	+9.58%	47 0.27%	44
Data Structures	276	Down -43 places-43	£60,000	-	46 0.26%	32
Public Cloud	277	Down -89 places-89	£75,000	+10.29%	45 0.26%	10
e-Learning	277	Down -44 places-44	£35,000	-28.20%	45 0.26%	16
Data Protection Act	281	Down -71 places-71	£57,239	+56.81%	41 0.23%	12
Life Science	282	Down -49 places-49	£45,000	-19.28%	40 0.23%	20
Low-Code	282	Down -32 places-32	£62,500	-17.76%	40 0.23%	19
Blog	283	Down -36 places-36	£20,000	-50.00%	39 0.22%	11
Legacy Applications	284	Down -29 places-29	£54,223	-47.09%	38 0.22%	8
Embedded Systems	284	Down -44 places-44	£55,750	-8.60%	38 0.22%	34
Security Operations Centre	286	Down -31 places-31	£55,000	-	36 0.20%	9
Learning Management System	289	Down -49 places-49	£42,500	-5.55%	33 0.19%	9
EPoS	289	Down -43 places-43	£30,000	-	33 0.19%	14
Security Posture	289	Down -100 places-100	£59,000	+7.27%	33 0.19%	24
Hedge funds	289	Down -42 places-42	£70,000	-	33 0.19%	6
Enterprise Cloud	293	Down -46 places-46	£73,500	+5.00%	29 0.16%	4
Educational Technology	295	Down -44 places-44	£50,000	-16.66%	27 0.15%	10
SCADA	297	Down -68 places-68	£57,500	-11.53%	25 0.14%	26
Cyber Kill Chain	297	Down -41 places-41	-	-	25 0.14%
Virtual Team	298	Down -70 places-70	£43,750	-20.45%	24 0.14%	19
Smart Home	298	New entry-	£25,087	-	24 0.14%	2
AI Agents	298	New entry-	£100,000	-	24 0.14%	67
CMDB	299	Down -53 places-53	£41,000	+12.32%	23 0.13%	11
PMI	299	Down -46 places-46	£63,076	-9.89%	23 0.13%	4
PKI	300	Down -44 places-44	£48,445	-0.31%	22 0.12%	7
Legacy Code	304	Down -51 places-51	£62,500	-12.28%	18 0.10%	1