General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 19 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	18	Up 211 places+211	£55,000	-4.76%	1,664 9.54%	24
Driving Licence	82	Up 75 places+75	£37,000	-16.85%	374 2.14%	175
Onboarding	90	Up 81 places+81	£37,500	-	334 1.91%	184
Cyberattack	115	Down -83 places-83	£30,000	-50.00%	258 1.48%	13
Self-Motivation	124	Down -4 places-4	£32,500	-20.73%	241 1.38%	169
Cloud Native	133	Up 34 places+34	£75,000	+0.17%	210 1.20%	103
Management Information System	146	Down -73 places-73	£50,000	-9.09%	190 1.09%	76
Product Ownership	167	Down -77 places-77	£66,250	-7.97%	160 0.92%	90
Data Centre	176	No change0	£48,445	-11.91%	147 0.84%	52
NHS	184	Up 22 places+22	£60,000	+84.61%	137 0.79%	68
Mobile App	189	Down -7 places-7	£60,000	+23.07%	131 0.75%	58
Social Media	203	Down -90 places-90	£39,000	-7.14%	116 0.66%	55
Analytical Mindset	214	Down -3 places-3	£50,000	-18.36%	104 0.60%	45
Marketing Technology	225	New entry-	£100,000	-	92 0.53%	15
Distributed Systems	226	Down -39 places-39	£77,500	-	91 0.52%	37
FMCG	232	Down -130 places-130	£55,000	+4.76%	84 0.48%	19
Enterprise Software	233	Down -103 places-103	£75,000	+11.11%	83 0.48%	37
Legacy Systems	234	Down -21 places-21	£63,076	+29.38%	82 0.47%	45
Operational Technology	248	Down -43 places-43	£65,000	-	68 0.39%	18
Greenfield Project	257	Down -52 places-52	£62,750	+2.86%	59 0.34%	50
Algorithms	257	Down -62 places-62	£37,500	-47.91%	59 0.34%	37
Hybrid Cloud	260	Down -62 places-62	£63,076	-12.38%	56 0.32%	18
Cyber Threat	265	Down -42 places-42	£72,500	+11.53%	51 0.29%	20
Renewable Energy	266	Down -49 places-49	£40,000	-27.27%	50 0.29%	16
CCTV	269	Down -35 places-35	£40,000	+9.58%	47 0.27%	44
Data Structures	270	Down -42 places-42	£60,000	-4.00%	46 0.26%	32
e-Learning	271	Down -44 places-44	£35,000	-28.20%	45 0.26%	20
Public Cloud	271	Down -88 places-88	£75,000	+10.29%	45 0.26%	9
Blog	273	Down -32 places-32	£20,000	-50.00%	43 0.25%	13
Data Protection Act	276	Down -72 places-72	£57,239	+56.81%	40 0.23%	10
Low-Code	276	Down -32 places-32	£62,500	-17.76%	40 0.23%	22
Legacy Applications	278	Down -29 places-29	£54,223	-47.09%	38 0.22%	9
Life Science	278	Down -51 places-51	£43,750	-21.52%	38 0.22%	14
Embedded Systems	279	Down -45 places-45	£56,500	-7.37%	37 0.21%	44
Security Operations Centre	280	Down -31 places-31	£55,000	-	36 0.21%	9
Learning Management System	283	Down -49 places-49	£42,500	-5.55%	33 0.19%	11
EPoS	283	Down -42 places-42	£30,000	-	33 0.19%	14
Hedge funds	283	Down -42 places-42	£70,000	-	33 0.19%	6
Security Posture	284	Down -100 places-100	£57,500	+4.54%	32 0.18%	26
Enterprise Cloud	288	Down -47 places-47	£71,750	+2.50%	28 0.16%	3
Educational Technology	289	Down -44 places-44	£50,000	-16.66%	27 0.15%	12
Cyber Kill Chain	291	Down -41 places-41	-	-	25 0.14%
SCADA	291	Down -68 places-68	£57,500	-11.53%	25 0.14%	25
Virtual Team	292	Down -70 places-70	£43,750	-20.45%	24 0.14%	23
Smart Home	292	New entry-	£25,087	-	24 0.14%	2
AI Agents	292	New entry-	£100,000	-	24 0.14%	28
CMDB	293	Down -53 places-53	£41,000	+12.32%	23 0.13%	9
PMI	293	Down -46 places-46	£63,076	-9.89%	23 0.13%	6
PKI	294	Down -44 places-44	£48,445	-0.31%	22 0.13%	6
Legacy Code	298	Down -51 places-51	£62,500	-12.28%	18 0.10%	3