General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	20	Up 231 places+231	£55,000	-5.17%	1,319 7.12%	24
Driving Licence	90	Up 83 places+83	£38,500	-19.37%	362 1.95%	189
Onboarding	94	Up 90 places+90	£40,000	+9.58%	341 1.84%	187
Cyberattack	113	Down -87 places-87	£30,000	-53.84%	281 1.52%	11
Self-Motivation	139	Down -66 places-66	£33,000	-12.00%	224 1.21%	172
Cloud Native	140	Up 46 places+46	£75,000	+0.17%	223 1.20%	85
Product Ownership	154	Down -70 places-70	£60,813	-15.52%	194 1.05%	112
Data Centre	170	Up 34 places+34	£48,445	-11.91%	170 0.92%	63
Management Information System	171	Down -76 places-76	£50,000	-9.09%	166 0.90%	86
NHS	180	Up 32 places+32	£60,000	+84.61%	154 0.83%	66
Mobile App	189	Up 12 places+12	£55,000	+22.22%	144 0.78%	58
Social Media	219	Down -113 places-113	£38,500	-8.33%	110 0.59%	49
Marketing Technology	223	New entry-	£100,000	-	106 0.57%	18
Distributed Systems	232	Down -22 places-22	£80,000	+1.91%	96 0.52%	51
Enterprise Software	237	Down -132 places-132	£67,500	-	91 0.49%	28
Analytical Mindset	237	Down -2 places-2	£62,500	+2.04%	91 0.49%	40
FMCG	238	Down -119 places-119	£55,000	+4.76%	90 0.49%	23
Legacy Systems	239	Down -4 places-4	£63,076	+20.14%	89 0.48%	44
Greenfield Project	241	Down -6 places-6	£62,500	-3.84%	87 0.47%	34
CCTV	256	No change0	£40,000	+13.47%	72 0.39%	58
Algorithms	266	Down -52 places-52	£37,500	-48.09%	62 0.33%	33
Hybrid Cloud	267	Down -30 places-30	£63,076	-12.38%	61 0.33%	27
Operational Technology	279	Down -58 places-58	£65,000	-	49 0.26%	19
e-Learning	281	Down -19 places-19	£35,000	-39.13%	47 0.25%	12
Low-Code	281	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	-21.05%	47 0.25%	9
Data Structures	282	Down -33 places-33	£57,500	-4.16%	46 0.25%	31
Legacy Applications	283	Down -11 places-11	£50,000	-51.21%	45 0.24%	10
Renewable Energy	283	Down -46 places-46	£40,000	-27.27%	45 0.24%	19
Public Cloud	284	Down -74 places-74	£72,966	+1.35%	44 0.24%	9
Life Science	284	Down -34 places-34	£48,750	-12.55%	44 0.24%	29
Data Protection Act	285	Down -58 places-58	£57,239	+58.99%	43 0.23%	6
Security Posture	289	Down -77 places-77	£68,750	+21.14%	39 0.21%	27
Hedge funds	291	Down -35 places-35	£100,000	+42.85%	37 0.20%	12
Virtual Team	293	Down -47 places-47	£70,000	+18.64%	35 0.19%	14
Learning Management System	293	Down -39 places-39	£42,500	-5.55%	35 0.19%	7
Embedded Systems	294	Down -37 places-37	£55,000	-9.83%	34 0.18%	25
Enterprise Cloud	296	Down -33 places-33	£73,500	+17.60%	32 0.17%	3
PropTech	296	Down -23 places-23	£45,000	-10.00%	32 0.17%	15
Web Conferencing	297	Down -24 places-24	£52,000	-13.33%	31 0.17%	25
AI Agents	298	Down -22 places-22	£80,000	-27.27%	30 0.16%	37
Replication	298	Down -45 places-45	£42,500	-	30 0.16%	22
Cyber Threat	299	Down -52 places-52	£73,750	+13.46%	29 0.16%	19
Educational Technology	302	Down -35 places-35	£50,000	-13.04%	26 0.14%	12
Blog	302	Down -40 places-40	£31,000	-22.50%	26 0.14%	9
EPoS	303	Down -46 places-46	£30,000	+27.65%	25 0.13%	24
Smart Home	305	New entry-	£25,087	-	23 0.12%	3
SCADA	305	Down -59 places-59	£58,250	-10.38%	23 0.12%	18
PKI	306	Down -33 places-33	£48,445	-5.19%	22 0.12%	4
CMDB	306	Down -46 places-46	£41,000	+12.32%	22 0.12%	8
PMI	306	Down -36 places-36	£69,038	-1.37%	22 0.12%	9