General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Oxford

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 13 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Embedded Systems	25	Up 2 places+2	£65,000	+18.18%	43 5.38%	8
Driving Licence	34	Down 16 places-16	£40,000	+55.61%	32 4.00%	9
Public Cloud	36	New entry-	£68,500	-	30 3.75%	8
Distributed Computing	45	New entry-	£65,000	-	20 2.50%	2
Web Conferencing	45	Down 21 places-21	£85,000	+78.94%	20 2.50%	4
Algorithms	45	Down 18 places-18	£100,000	+60.00%	20 2.50%	32
Onboarding	46	Down 34 places-34	£57,500	+21.05%	19 2.38%	10
CCTV	48	New entry-	£47,166	-	17 2.13%	1
FPGA	49	Down 21 places-21	£90,000	+83.67%	16 2.00%	23
Genomics	50	New entry-	£90,000	-	15 1.88%	12
ASIC	52	New entry-	£100,000	-	13 1.63%	17
Legacy Systems	54	Down 26 places-26	£62,500	-7.40%	11 1.38%	2
Fibre Optics	55	Down 28 places-28	£56,000	-4.76%	10 1.25%	1
Product Ownership	55	Down 28 places-28	£62,500	+13.63%	10 1.25%	7
Enterprise Software	56	Down 28 places-28	£62,500	+95.31%	9 1.13%	6
Data Structures	56	New entry-	£75,000	-	9 1.13%	5
Robotics	56	Down 29 places-29	£63,750	+6.25%	9 1.13%	70
Management Information System	57	Down 47 places-47	£41,420	+15.52%	8 1.00%	21
Self-Motivation	57	Down 41 places-41	£47,166	+88.66%	8 1.00%	11
Mobile Games	57	New entry-	-	-	8 1.00%
Verilog	57	New entry-	£80,000	-	8 1.00%	4
Private Cloud	57	New entry-	£75,000	-	8 1.00%	3
Smartphone	57	New entry-	-	-	8 1.00%
SystemC	58	New entry-	-	-	7 0.88%
Distributed Systems	58	Down 30 places-30	£75,000	+25.00%	7 0.88%	19
VHDL	59	New entry-	£60,000	-	6 0.75%	3
Hackathon	59	New entry-	£68,500	-	6 0.75%	1
AI Agents	59	Down 31 places-31	£100,000	-20.00%	6 0.75%	22
NHS	59	New entry-	£57,500	-	6 0.75%	14
Renewable Energy	60	Down 34 places-34	-	-	5 0.63%	9
Replication	61	New entry-	£57,500	-	4 0.50%	1
Analogue Electronics	61	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.50%	4
IoT	61	Down 33 places-33	-	-	4 0.50%	2
Life Science	61	New entry-	£85,000	-	4 0.50%	13
Linux Command Line	62	New entry-	£45,000	-	3 0.38%	4
Smart Meter	62	New entry-	£40,000	-	3 0.38%
Virtual Team	62	Down 34 places-34	£45,500	-43.12%	3 0.38%	2
Digital Signage	63	New entry-	-	-	2 0.25%
Analytical Mindset	63	Down 38 places-38	£27,250	-26.84%	2 0.25%
PCIe	63	New entry-	£100,000	-	2 0.25%	8
Security Posture	63	Down 36 places-36	£58,750	-14.54%	2 0.25%	1
Cyber Security Posture	63	New entry-	£58,750	-	2 0.25%
Hybrid Cloud	63	Down 35 places-35	-	-	2 0.25%	3
Photography	63	New entry-	-	-	2 0.25%
LIMS	64	Down 49 places-49	£55,000	-	1 0.13%	3
Mainframe	64	New entry-	£85,000	-	1 0.13%	1
Greenfield Project	64	Down 37 places-37	£85,000	+1.49%	1 0.13%	1
Optoelectronics	64	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%	7
Lidar	64	New entry-	-	-	1 0.13%	1
e-Learning	64	Down 36 places-36	-	-	1 0.13%	2