General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	29	Up 241 places+241	£55,000	-5.17%	1,046 5.67%	18
Driving Licence	82	Up 109 places+109	£38,500	-19.37%	365 1.98%	185
Onboarding	89	Up 114 places+114	£39,250	+9.79%	342 1.85%	182
Cyberattack	109	Down -93 places-93	£30,000	-53.84%	280 1.52%	10
Self-Motivation	134	Down -53 places-53	£33,000	-5.71%	222 1.20%	174
Cloud Native	136	Up 70 places+70	£75,000	+0.17%	218 1.18%	84
Product Ownership	150	Down -63 places-63	£60,000	-16.65%	194 1.05%	96
Data Centre	163	Up 57 places+57	£48,445	-11.91%	177 0.96%	76
Management Information System	170	Down -61 places-61	£52,473	-4.59%	165 0.89%	95
NHS	174	Up 33 places+33	£60,000	+84.61%	156 0.85%	78
Mobile App	182	Up 41 places+41	£55,000	+10.00%	146 0.79%	61
Social Media	212	Down -90 places-90	£38,500	-8.33%	110 0.60%	60
Marketing Technology	213	New entry-	£100,000	-	109 0.59%	15
Distributed Systems	227	Up 2 places+2	£80,000	+2.56%	93 0.50%	48
Legacy Systems	229	Up 26 places+26	£63,076	+12.13%	91 0.49%	43
Analytical Mindset	229	Up 21 places+21	£62,500	+4.16%	91 0.49%	37
Greenfield Project	230	Up 22 places+22	£62,500	-3.84%	90 0.49%	29
FMCG	230	Down -95 places-95	£55,000	+4.76%	90 0.49%	23
Enterprise Software	232	Down -117 places-117	£65,000	-3.70%	88 0.48%	33
CCTV	247	Up 28 places+28	£40,000	+4.57%	72 0.39%	58
Algorithms	256	Down -20 places-20	£37,500	-51.45%	63 0.34%	34
Hybrid Cloud	258	Down -4 places-4	£64,038	-11.04%	61 0.33%	31
Operational Technology	268	Down -36 places-36	£65,000	-	51 0.28%	22
e-Learning	272	Up 7 places+7	£35,000	-39.13%	47 0.25%	12
Low-Code	272	Up 14 places+14	£60,000	-21.05%	47 0.25%	9
Data Structures	272	Down -7 places-7	£57,500	-4.16%	47 0.25%	31
Life Science	273	Down -7 places-7	£48,750	-11.36%	46 0.25%	31
Legacy Applications	273	Up 16 places+16	£50,000	-51.21%	46 0.25%	5
Renewable Energy	273	Down -20 places-20	£40,000	-27.27%	46 0.25%	18
Data Protection Act	276	Down -30 places-30	£57,239	+61.23%	43 0.23%	4
Public Cloud	276	Down -45 places-45	£70,932	-5.25%	43 0.23%	10
Hedge funds	281	Down -8 places-8	£85,000	+21.42%	38 0.21%	12
Security Posture	281	Down -49 places-49	£75,000	+25.52%	38 0.21%	24
Learning Management System	283	Down -2 places-2	£42,500	-5.55%	36 0.20%	10
Embedded Systems	284	Down -10 places-10	£55,000	-9.83%	35 0.19%	27
Virtual Team	284	Down -21 places-21	£70,000	+18.64%	35 0.19%	15
PropTech	287	Up 3 places+3	£45,000	-10.00%	32 0.17%	13
Web Conferencing	288	Up 2 places+2	£52,000	-13.33%	31 0.17%	23
Enterprise Cloud	288	Down -8 places-8	£73,500	+17.60%	31 0.17%	2
AI Agents	290	Up 3 places+3	£80,000	-27.27%	29 0.16%	43
Replication	290	Down -15 places-15	£42,500	+30.76%	29 0.16%	14
Cyber Threat	291	Down -26 places-26	£72,500	+11.53%	28 0.15%	17
Blog	293	Down -14 places-14	£31,000	-22.50%	26 0.14%	7
Educational Technology	294	Down -10 places-10	£50,000	-13.04%	25 0.14%	15
EPoS	294	Down -20 places-20	£30,000	+27.65%	25 0.14%	21
PMI	295	Down -8 places-8	£63,076	-9.89%	24 0.13%	11
SCADA	296	Down -33 places-33	£59,500	-8.46%	23 0.12%	21
Smart Home	296	New entry-	£25,087	-	23 0.12%	5
PKI	297	Down -7 places-7	£48,445	-5.19%	22 0.12%	4
CMDB	298	Down -19 places-19	£41,000	+12.32%	21 0.11%	11