General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	17	Up 217 places+217	£52,500	-9.09%	1,667 9.75%	224
Driving Licence	80	Up 75 places+75	£35,500	-11.25%	380 2.22%	169
Onboarding	91	Up 84 places+84	£37,500	-	324 1.89%	178
Cyberattack	119	Down -78 places-78	£30,000	-50.00%	257 1.50%	13
Self-Motivation	128	No change0	£32,500	-23.52%	237 1.39%	172
Cloud Native	139	Up 35 places+35	£75,000	+0.17%	205 1.20%	107
Management Information System	151	Down -70 places-70	£49,900	-9.27%	187 1.09%	70
Product Ownership	174	Down -79 places-79	£67,500	-3.57%	154 0.90%	85
Data Centre	179	No change0	£48,445	-11.91%	148 0.87%	48
Mobile App	191	Down -4 places-4	£60,000	+26.31%	131 0.77%	61
NHS	194	Up 17 places+17	£60,000	+84.61%	128 0.75%	73
Social Media	204	Down -84 places-84	£39,000	-7.14%	118 0.69%	58
Analytical Mindset	218	Down -1 place-1	£45,000	-26.53%	101 0.59%	38
Distributed Systems	230	Down -36 places-36	£77,500	-	89 0.52%	34
Marketing Technology	232	New entry-	£100,000	-	87 0.51%	16
FMCG	235	Down -128 places-128	£55,000	+4.76%	84 0.49%	21
Enterprise Software	238	Down -102 places-102	£75,000	+11.11%	81 0.47%	36
Legacy Systems	241	Down -21 places-21	£63,076	+32.79%	78 0.46%	36
Operational Technology	252	Down -41 places-41	£65,000	-	67 0.39%	13
Hybrid Cloud	263	Down -59 places-59	£63,076	-12.38%	56 0.33%	16
Algorithms	264	Down -63 places-63	£37,500	-47.91%	55 0.32%	37
Greenfield Project	265	Down -57 places-57	£62,500	+4.16%	54 0.32%	51
Renewable Energy	268	Down -45 places-45	£40,000	-27.27%	51 0.30%	15
Cyber Threat	269	Down -40 places-40	£72,500	+11.53%	50 0.29%	15
e-Learning	273	Down -40 places-40	£33,750	-30.76%	46 0.27%	18
CCTV	273	Down -34 places-34	£38,750	+9.92%	46 0.27%	43
Data Structures	274	Down -41 places-41	£60,000	-	45 0.26%	31
Public Cloud	274	Down -86 places-86	£75,000	+10.29%	45 0.26%	14
Blog	276	Down -28 places-28	£20,000	-50.00%	43 0.25%	11
Low-Code	278	Down -29 places-29	£61,250	-13.12%	41 0.24%	20
Data Protection Act	279	Down -71 places-71	£57,239	+32.34%	40 0.23%	11
Life Science	280	Down -48 places-48	£42,500	-24.77%	39 0.23%	17
Embedded Systems	281	Down -40 places-40	£56,500	-7.37%	38 0.22%	31
Legacy Applications	282	Down -28 places-28	£50,000	-50.00%	37 0.22%	10
Security Operations Centre	283	Down -28 places-28	£55,000	-	36 0.21%	9
EPoS	285	Down -38 places-38	£30,000	-	34 0.20%	13
Hedge funds	287	Down -40 places-40	£70,000	-	32 0.19%	6
Learning Management System	288	Down -47 places-47	£37,500	-16.66%	31 0.18%	9
Security Posture	288	Down -102 places-102	£57,500	+4.54%	31 0.18%	30
Enterprise Cloud	291	Down -44 places-44	£71,750	+2.50%	28 0.16%	3
Educational Technology	292	Down -41 places-41	£50,000	-16.66%	27 0.16%	12
Cyber Kill Chain	294	Down -38 places-38	-	-	25 0.15%
SCADA	294	Down -65 places-65	£57,500	-11.53%	25 0.15%	25
Virtual Team	294	Down -66 places-66	£43,750	-20.45%	25 0.15%	17
Smart Home	295	New entry-	£25,087	-	24 0.14%	2
AI Agents	295	New entry-	£100,000	-	24 0.14%	27
CMDB	296	Down -49 places-49	£41,000	+12.32%	23 0.13%	8
PMI	297	Down -44 places-44	£63,076	-9.89%	22 0.13%	6
PKI	297	Down -41 places-41	£48,445	-0.31%	22 0.13%	4
Legacy Code	301	Down -48 places-48	£62,500	-12.28%	18 0.11%	3