General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	18	Up 223 places+223	£55,000	-5.17%	1,401 7.63%	26
Driving Licence	88	Up 76 places+76	£38,750	-18.84%	369 2.01%	192
Onboarding	92	Up 86 places+86	£37,500	+2.73%	340 1.85%	170
Cyberattack	109	Down -83 places-83	£30,000	-53.84%	280 1.53%	11
Self-Motivation	131	Down -49 places-49	£33,000	-12.00%	225 1.23%	168
Cloud Native	138	Up 42 places+42	£77,500	+3.42%	216 1.18%	96
Product Ownership	159	Down -82 places-82	£61,418	-14.68%	182 0.99%	115
Management Information System	166	Down -75 places-75	£50,000	-9.09%	170 0.93%	85
Data Centre	169	Up 28 places+28	£48,445	-11.91%	164 0.89%	69
NHS	177	Up 43 places+43	£60,000	+84.61%	152 0.83%	71
Mobile App	193	Down -1 place-1	£58,750	+30.55%	134 0.73%	60
Social Media	210	Down -101 places-101	£38,500	-8.33%	113 0.62%	43
Marketing Technology	219	New entry-	£100,000	-	104 0.57%	17
Distributed Systems	226	Down -24 places-24	£80,000	+0.94%	94 0.51%	42
Analytical Mindset	229	Down -2 places-2	£62,500	-	91 0.50%	40
FMCG	230	Down -113 places-113	£55,000	+4.76%	90 0.49%	22
Enterprise Software	233	Down -131 places-131	£67,500	-	87 0.47%	32
Legacy Systems	234	Down -8 places-8	£63,076	+26.15%	86 0.47%	49
Greenfield Project	239	Down -13 places-13	£62,750	-3.46%	81 0.44%	33
CCTV	248	Down -2 places-2	£40,000	+13.47%	72 0.39%	59
Algorithms	259	Down -52 places-52	£37,500	-47.91%	61 0.33%	30
Hybrid Cloud	259	Down -31 places-31	£63,076	-12.38%	61 0.33%	29
Operational Technology	270	Down -47 places-47	£65,000	-	50 0.27%	19
Low-Code	274	Down -15 places-15	£60,000	-21.05%	46 0.25%	11
e-Learning	275	Down -23 places-23	£35,000	-39.13%	45 0.25%	15
Renewable Energy	275	Down -48 places-48	£40,000	-27.27%	45 0.25%	21
Data Structures	276	Down -36 places-36	£57,500	-4.16%	44 0.24%	31
Public Cloud	276	Down -74 places-74	£72,966	+1.35%	44 0.24%	9
Legacy Applications	276	Down -14 places-14	£50,000	-51.21%	44 0.24%	10
Data Protection Act	277	Down -61 places-61	£57,239	+56.81%	43 0.23%	6
Life Science	278	Down -37 places-37	£47,500	-15.92%	42 0.23%	26
Security Posture	283	Down -80 places-80	£68,750	+21.14%	37 0.20%	26
Hedge funds	283	Down -29 places-29	£100,000	+42.85%	37 0.20%	5
Virtual Team	285	Down -49 places-49	£70,000	+18.64%	35 0.19%	15
Learning Management System	285	Down -41 places-41	£42,500	-5.55%	35 0.19%	8
Enterprise Cloud	288	Down -35 places-35	£73,500	+17.60%	32 0.17%	2
Embedded Systems	289	Down -42 places-42	£55,000	-9.83%	31 0.17%	27
Blog	289	Down -36 places-36	£20,000	-50.00%	31 0.17%	10
PropTech	291	Down -28 places-28	£45,000	-10.00%	29 0.16%	13
AI Agents	292	Down -25 places-25	£97,500	-11.36%	28 0.15%	38
Cyber Threat	292	Down -55 places-55	£72,500	+11.53%	28 0.15%	23
Educational Technology	294	Down -37 places-37	£50,000	-13.04%	26 0.14%	14
EPoS	295	Down -48 places-48	£30,000	+27.65%	25 0.14%	23
Web Conferencing	295	Down -32 places-32	£63,500	+5.83%	25 0.14%	22
Replication	296	Down -53 places-53	£47,500	+11.76%	24 0.13%	16
Smart Home	297	New entry-	£25,087	-	23 0.13%	2
SCADA	297	Down -61 places-61	£58,250	-10.38%	23 0.13%	20
PKI	298	Down -35 places-35	£48,445	-5.19%	22 0.12%	4
CMDB	298	Down -48 places-48	£41,000	+12.32%	22 0.12%	7
PMI	298	Down -38 places-38	£69,038	-1.37%	22 0.12%	10