General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	18	Up 219 places+219	£55,000	-4.76%	1,664 9.49%	281
Driving Licence	81	Up 86 places+86	£36,500	-17.97%	375 2.14%	171
Onboarding	90	Up 88 places+88	£37,500	-	334 1.90%	176
Cyberattack	115	Down -82 places-82	£30,000	-50.00%	258 1.47%	12
Self-Motivation	124	No change0	£33,000	-19.51%	241 1.37%	171
Cloud Native	132	Up 43 places+43	£75,000	+0.17%	214 1.22%	107
Management Information System	148	Down -66 places-66	£50,000	-9.09%	189 1.08%	74
Product Ownership	168	Down -72 places-72	£67,500	-6.23%	161 0.92%	97
Data Centre	178	Up 5 places+5	£48,445	-11.91%	150 0.86%	56
NHS	186	Up 28 places+28	£60,000	+84.61%	137 0.78%	64
Mobile App	190	Down -2 places-2	£60,000	+20.00%	132 0.75%	59
Social Media	204	Down -86 places-86	£39,000	-7.14%	117 0.67%	46
Analytical Mindset	217	Up 2 places+2	£50,000	-18.36%	104 0.59%	45
Marketing Technology	227	New entry-	£100,000	-	92 0.52%	17
Distributed Systems	228	Down -34 places-34	£77,500	-	91 0.52%	40
FMCG	235	Down -128 places-128	£55,000	+4.76%	84 0.48%	18
Enterprise Software	235	Down -99 places-99	£75,000	+11.11%	84 0.48%	36
Legacy Systems	237	Down -17 places-17	£63,076	+26.15%	82 0.47%	41
Operational Technology	251	Down -37 places-37	£65,000	-	68 0.39%	16
Greenfield Project	260	Down -47 places-47	£62,750	+2.86%	59 0.34%	48
Algorithms	260	Down -58 places-58	£37,500	-47.91%	59 0.34%	39
Hybrid Cloud	261	Down -55 places-55	£63,076	-12.38%	58 0.33%	25
Cyber Threat	267	Down -36 places-36	£72,500	+11.53%	52 0.30%	20
Renewable Energy	269	Down -44 places-44	£40,000	-27.27%	50 0.29%	16
CCTV	272	Down -30 places-30	£40,000	+9.58%	47 0.27%	44
Data Structures	273	Down -38 places-38	£60,000	-	46 0.26%	33
Public Cloud	274	Down -84 places-84	£75,000	+10.29%	45 0.26%	9
e-Learning	274	Down -39 places-39	£35,000	-28.20%	45 0.26%	18
Blog	275	Down -26 places-26	£20,000	-50.00%	44 0.25%	13
Data Protection Act	278	Down -66 places-66	£57,239	+56.81%	41 0.23%	11
Low-Code	279	Down -27 places-27	£62,500	-17.76%	40 0.23%	20
Life Science	280	Down -45 places-45	£45,000	-19.28%	39 0.22%	19
Legacy Applications	281	Down -24 places-24	£54,223	-47.09%	38 0.22%	7
Embedded Systems	281	Down -39 places-39	£55,750	-8.60%	38 0.22%	39
Security Operations Centre	283	Down -26 places-26	£55,000	-	36 0.21%	9
Hedge funds	286	Down -37 places-37	£70,000	-	33 0.19%	8
Learning Management System	286	Down -44 places-44	£42,500	-5.55%	33 0.19%	10
EPoS	286	Down -37 places-37	£30,000	-	33 0.19%	14
Security Posture	286	Down -95 places-95	£59,000	+7.27%	33 0.19%	26
Enterprise Cloud	291	Down -42 places-42	£71,750	+2.50%	28 0.16%	4
Educational Technology	292	Down -39 places-39	£50,000	-16.66%	27 0.15%	10
Cyber Kill Chain	294	Down -36 places-36	-	-	25 0.14%
SCADA	294	Down -63 places-63	£57,500	-11.53%	25 0.14%	25
AI Agents	295	New entry-	£100,000	-	24 0.14%	23
Virtual Team	295	Down -65 places-65	£43,750	-20.45%	24 0.14%	23
Smart Home	295	New entry-	£25,087	-	24 0.14%	2
CMDB	296	Down -48 places-48	£41,000	+12.32%	23 0.13%	10
PMI	296	Down -41 places-41	£63,076	-9.89%	23 0.13%	5
PKI	297	Down -39 places-39	£48,445	-0.31%	22 0.13%	7
Legacy Code	301	Down -46 places-46	£62,500	-12.28%	18 0.10%	1