General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 28 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	17	Up 222 places+222	£55,000	-5.17%	1,666 9.19%	291
Driving Licence	84	Up 87 places+87	£37,500	-25.00%	371 2.05%	181
Onboarding	88	Up 88 places+88	£37,500	+0.67%	343 1.89%	171
Cyberattack	105	Down -78 places-78	£30,000	-52.00%	277 1.53%	12
Self-Motivation	123	No change0	£33,000	-12.00%	241 1.33%	168
Cloud Native	134	Up 43 places+43	£75,000	+0.17%	214 1.18%	117
Management Information System	153	Down -70 places-70	£50,000	-9.09%	181 1.00%	64
Product Ownership	162	Down -66 places-66	£61,418	-14.68%	169 0.93%	113
Data Centre	171	Up 16 places+16	£48,445	-11.91%	157 0.87%	52
NHS	184	Up 32 places+32	£60,000	+84.61%	140 0.77%	61
Mobile App	187	Down -1 place-1	£57,500	+21.05%	136 0.75%	57
Social Media	206	Down -92 places-92	£38,500	-8.33%	114 0.63%	36
Analytical Mindset	216	Up 5 places+5	£52,500	-16.00%	104 0.57%	47
Marketing Technology	223	New entry-	£100,000	-	97 0.53%	17
Distributed Systems	232	Down -38 places-38	£78,750	+1.61%	88 0.49%	49
Enterprise Software	233	Down -98 places-98	£75,000	+13.20%	87 0.48%	35
FMCG	235	Down -126 places-126	£55,000	+4.76%	85 0.47%	23
Legacy Systems	236	Down -14 places-14	£63,076	+26.15%	84 0.46%	34
Greenfield Project	249	Down -29 places-29	£65,000	+1.96%	71 0.39%	43
Operational Technology	251	Down -32 places-32	£65,000	-	69 0.38%	18
Algorithms	260	Down -57 places-57	£37,500	-47.91%	60 0.33%	27
Hybrid Cloud	260	Down -54 places-54	£63,076	-12.38%	60 0.33%	27
CCTV	266	Down -23 places-23	£38,750	+6.16%	54 0.30%	59
Cyber Threat	267	Down -36 places-36	£72,500	+11.53%	53 0.29%	16
Renewable Energy	270	Down -44 places-44	£40,000	-27.27%	50 0.28%	19
e-Learning	274	Down -38 places-38	£35,000	-28.20%	46 0.25%	76
Data Structures	275	Down -39 places-39	£57,500	-4.16%	45 0.25%	31
Low-Code	276	Down -21 places-21	£60,000	-21.05%	44 0.24%	17
Public Cloud	277	Down -85 places-85	£70,932	+4.31%	43 0.24%	19
Legacy Applications	279	Down -21 places-21	£50,000	-51.21%	41 0.23%	7
Data Protection Act	280	Down -67 places-67	£57,239	+56.81%	40 0.22%	11
Life Science	281	Down -44 places-44	£45,000	-20.35%	39 0.22%	34
Embedded Systems	282	Down -38 places-38	£55,750	-8.60%	38 0.21%	29
Security Operations Centre	284	Down -25 places-25	£55,000	-3.08%	36 0.20%	6
Learning Management System	285	Down -44 places-44	£42,500	-5.55%	35 0.19%	8
Blog	285	Down -34 places-34	£20,000	-50.00%	35 0.19%	10
Hedge funds	287	Down -37 places-37	£70,000	-	33 0.18%	4
EPoS	288	Down -40 places-40	£30,000	+10.09%	32 0.18%	16
Security Posture	288	Down -93 places-93	£57,500	+4.54%	32 0.18%	21
Enterprise Cloud	288	Down -38 places-38	£73,500	+5.00%	32 0.18%	7
Educational Technology	293	Down -40 places-40	£50,000	-13.04%	27 0.15%	9
AI Agents	294	New entry-	£100,000	-	26 0.14%	45
PropTech	295	Down -36 places-36	£45,000	-10.00%	25 0.14%	14
Cyber Kill Chain	295	Down -36 places-36	-	-	25 0.14%
Smart Home	296	New entry-	£25,087	-	24 0.13%	2
SCADA	297	Down -65 places-65	£57,500	-11.53%	23 0.13%	21
CMDB	297	Down -50 places-50	£41,000	+12.32%	23 0.13%	12
PMI	297	Down -41 places-41	£63,076	-9.89%	23 0.13%	11
Virtual Team	297	Down -66 places-66	£50,000	-9.09%	23 0.13%	18
PKI	298	Down -38 places-38	£48,445	+8.37%	22 0.12%	1