General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	68	Up 86 places+86	£40,000	+21.21%	495 2.11%	243
Cloud Native	85	Up 104 places+104	£75,250	+3.79%	434 1.85%	184
Self-Motivation	88	Down -12 places-12	£37,500	+22.95%	426 1.82%	177
Driving Licence	90	Up 22 places+22	£35,000	-19.54%	413 1.76%	267
Product Ownership	127	Down -22 places-22	£57,500	-16.36%	283 1.21%	132
Data Centre	135	Up 89 places+89	£65,000	+8.33%	264 1.13%	89
Cyberattack	170	Down -157 places-157	£30,000	-62.50%	196 0.84%	11
Management Information System	176	Down -35 places-35	£42,500	+6.25%	183 0.78%	228
NHS	198	Up 17 places+17	£60,000	+57.89%	155 0.66%	163
Greenfield Project	200	Up 62 places+62	£66,124	+1.72%	152 0.65%	40
Mobile App	217	Up 21 places+21	£55,000	+12.82%	133 0.57%	48
Enterprise Software	217	Down -45 places-45	£60,000	+6.66%	133 0.57%	85
Distributed Systems	218	Up 33 places+33	£75,000	-5.36%	132 0.56%	97
Legacy Systems	233	Up 29 places+29	£69,305	-2.72%	115 0.49%	25
AI Agents	239	Up 45 places+45	£85,427	+6.78%	108 0.46%	108
Security Posture	241	Up 40 places+40	£55,500	-3.47%	106 0.45%	32
CCTV	244	Up 35 places+35	£40,000	+26.98%	103 0.44%	58
Social Media	244	Down -114 places-114	£32,500	-18.75%	103 0.44%	49
Hybrid Cloud	251	Up 11 places+11	£57,500	-11.53%	96 0.41%	25
Renewable Energy	252	Down -55 places-55	£48,500	+21.25%	95 0.41%	38
Smartphone	255	Up 48 places+48	£30,000	-57.14%	92 0.39%	8
IoT	259	Up 25 places+25	£55,000	-8.33%	88 0.38%	26
Operational Technology	260	Down -98 places-98	£70,000	+7.69%	87 0.37%	35
Marketing Technology	260	Up 36 places+36	£100,000	+40.35%	87 0.37%	11
Life Science	263	Up 17 places+17	£67,500	+141.07%	84 0.36%	36
Mobile Games	264	New entry-	-	-	83 0.35%	2
Analytical Mindset	269	Down -21 places-21	£45,000	-5.26%	78 0.33%	25
Data Structures	274	Up 2 places+2	£55,000	-26.42%	73 0.31%	33
SCADA	274	Down -20 places-20	£65,000	+8.33%	73 0.31%	71
FMCG	278	Down -119 places-119	£47,600	+14.69%	69 0.29%	58
Robotics	278	Down -138 places-138	£55,000	+6.25%	69 0.29%	62
Web Conferencing	280	Up 21 places+21	£31,750	-6.61%	66 0.28%	22
e-Learning	283	Down -8 places-8	£39,197	-7.77%	63 0.27%	21
Hedge funds	292	Down -6 places-6	£100,000	-	54 0.23%	5
Replication	293	Up 8 places+8	£42,500	+30.76%	53 0.23%	10
Virtual Team	295	Down -14 places-14	£70,000	+13.82%	51 0.22%	20
Embedded Systems	297	Down -11 places-11	£55,000	+14.58%	49 0.21%	22
Algorithms	299	Down -15 places-15	£52,000	+15.55%	47 0.20%	42
Cyber Threat	299	Down -19 places-19	£44,000	-33.01%	47 0.20%	42
Low-Code	305	Down -8 places-8	£52,500	-12.50%	41 0.17%	31
Legacy Applications	309	Down -7 places-7	£50,000	-37.50%	37 0.16%	5
Educational Technology	309	Down -6 places-6	£40,000	-4.76%	37 0.16%	10
Public Cloud	310	Down -32 places-32	£65,576	-4.26%	36 0.15%	32
Video Conferencing	312	Down -41 places-41	£35,000	+16.66%	34 0.15%	10
Podcast	314	New entry-	£27,581	-	32 0.14%	7
SystemC	315	New entry-	-	-	31 0.13%	5
Enterprise Cloud	316	Down -15 places-15	£73,500	+17.60%	30 0.13%	4
Learning Management System	317	Down -23 places-23	£47,500	+35.71%	29 0.12%	9
EPoS	318	Down -67 places-67	£38,000	+58.33%	28 0.12%	11
Private Cloud	318	Down -30 places-30	£65,161	-6.91%	28 0.12%	22