General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the North of England

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 25 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	17	Up 220 places+220	£55,000	-4.76%	1,665 9.30%	225
Driving Licence	82	Up 88 places+88	£37,500	-21.46%	370 2.07%	168
Onboarding	85	Up 89 places+89	£37,500	+0.67%	338 1.89%	153
Cyberattack	105	Down -78 places-78	£30,000	-52.00%	274 1.53%	11
Self-Motivation	122	No change0	£33,000	-12.00%	240 1.34%	159
Cloud Native	132	Up 43 places+43	£75,000	+0.17%	212 1.18%	76
Management Information System	147	Down -67 places-67	£50,000	-9.09%	185 1.03%	72
Product Ownership	157	Down -62 places-62	£61,418	-14.68%	168 0.94%	75
Data Centre	168	Up 17 places+17	£48,445	-11.91%	152 0.85%	50
NHS	176	Up 38 places+38	£60,000	+84.61%	140 0.78%	63
Mobile App	180	Up 4 places+4	£57,500	+21.05%	136 0.76%	56
Social Media	198	Down -84 places-84	£38,750	-7.73%	114 0.64%	34
Analytical Mindset	209	Up 9 places+9	£52,500	-16.00%	103 0.58%	38
Marketing Technology	216	New entry-	£100,000	-	95 0.53%	13
Enterprise Software	222	Down -86 places-86	£75,000	+13.20%	88 0.49%	28
Distributed Systems	223	Down -31 places-31	£78,750	+1.61%	87 0.49%	45
FMCG	225	Down -116 places-116	£55,000	+4.76%	84 0.47%	20
Legacy Systems	226	Down -6 places-6	£63,076	+26.15%	83 0.46%	24
Greenfield Project	241	Down -22 places-22	£65,000	+1.96%	68 0.38%	41
Operational Technology	241	Down -28 places-28	£65,000	-	68 0.38%	14
Algorithms	250	Down -49 places-49	£37,500	-47.91%	59 0.33%	26
Hybrid Cloud	250	Down -46 places-46	£63,076	-12.38%	59 0.33%	19
Cyber Threat	256	Down -26 places-26	£72,500	+11.53%	53 0.30%	13
CCTV	259	Down -17 places-17	£40,000	+9.58%	50 0.28%	58
Renewable Energy	260	Down -35 places-35	£40,000	-27.27%	49 0.27%	18
e-Learning	264	Down -29 places-29	£35,000	-28.20%	45 0.25%	11
Data Structures	265	Down -30 places-30	£57,500	-4.16%	44 0.25%	30
Low-Code	266	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	-21.05%	43 0.24%	12
Public Cloud	266	Down -77 places-77	£70,932	+4.31%	43 0.24%	10
Blog	270	Down -20 places-20	£20,000	-50.00%	39 0.22%	7
Data Protection Act	270	Down -59 places-59	£57,239	+56.81%	39 0.22%	10
Life Science	270	Down -34 places-34	£45,000	-20.35%	39 0.22%	18
Legacy Applications	271	Down -14 places-14	£54,223	-47.09%	38 0.21%	7
Embedded Systems	272	Down -29 places-29	£55,000	-9.83%	37 0.21%	34
Security Operations Centre	273	Down -16 places-16	£55,000	-	36 0.20%	5
Learning Management System	274	Down -33 places-33	£42,500	-5.55%	35 0.20%	4
EPoS	276	Down -29 places-29	£30,000	+10.09%	33 0.18%	15
Hedge funds	276	Down -27 places-27	£70,000	-	33 0.18%	6
Security Posture	277	Down -85 places-85	£56,000	+1.81%	32 0.18%	25
Enterprise Cloud	278	Down -29 places-29	£73,500	+5.00%	31 0.17%	5
Educational Technology	282	Down -30 places-30	£50,000	-13.04%	27 0.15%	9
Cyber Kill Chain	284	Down -26 places-26	-	-	25 0.14%
PropTech	284	Down -26 places-26	£45,000	-10.00%	25 0.14%	11
Smart Home	285	New entry-	£25,087	-	24 0.13%	2
AI Agents	285	New entry-	£100,000	-	24 0.13%	20
CMDB	286	Down -40 places-40	£41,000	+12.32%	23 0.13%	7
PMI	286	Down -31 places-31	£63,076	-9.89%	23 0.13%	5
Virtual Team	286	Down -56 places-56	£50,000	-9.09%	23 0.13%	9
SCADA	286	Down -55 places-55	£57,500	-11.53%	23 0.13%	24
PKI	287	Down -28 places-28	£48,445	+8.37%	22 0.12%	2