General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Reading

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	35	Up 7 places+7	£43,750	+16.66%	65 3.85%	21
Smart Home	44	Up 8 places+8	£45,000	+28.57%	51 3.02%	4
Self-Motivation	45	Down 8 places-8	£45,000	+20.00%	50 2.96%	22
Data Centre	47	Up 6 places+6	£60,000	-11.11%	47 2.78%	4
Onboarding	54	Down 15 places-15	£50,000	+53.84%	37 2.19%	20
IoT	58	New entry-	£55,000	-	33 1.95%	3
Cloud Native	66	Down 14 places-14	£85,000	+30.76%	25 1.48%	6
Product Ownership	70	Down 16 places-16	£75,000	+15.38%	21 1.24%	8
Home Automation	72	Down 17 places-17	£35,000	-	19 1.12%
Management Information System	74	Down 26 places-26	£47,500	-24.90%	17 1.01%	22
Social Media	74	Down 33 places-33	£45,000	+200.00%	17 1.01%	4
Enterprise Software	76	New entry-	£55,000	-	15 0.89%	9
CCTV	79	New entry-	£45,000	-	12 0.71%	4
Robotics	80	New entry-	£45,000	-	11 0.65%
Distributed Systems	81	Down 54 places-54	£62,500	-26.47%	10 0.59%	2
SCADA	81	Down 24 places-24	£57,500	+15.00%	10 0.59%	5
AI Agents	81	New entry-	£100,000	-	10 0.59%	8
Synthetic Data	81	New entry-	-	-	10 0.59%	1
Algorithms	81	New entry-	-	-	10 0.59%	2
Renewable Energy	81	Down 31 places-31	£55,000	-	10 0.59%
Video Conferencing	83	New entry-	£40,000	-	8 0.47%	1
Embedded Systems	84	Down 27 places-27	£55,000	-38.88%	7 0.41%	1
Virtual Team	84	Down 31 places-31	£62,500	+23.02%	7 0.41%	3
Hybrid Cloud	84	Down 27 places-27	£102,500	+13.88%	7 0.41%	1
Legacy Systems	84	Down 28 places-28	-	-	7 0.41%
NHS	85	Down 30 places-30	£55,000	-	6 0.36%	1
Greenfield Project	85	Down 37 places-37	£82,500	+83.33%	6 0.36%	4
Smartphone	85	New entry-	-	-	6 0.36%
Mobile Games	86	New entry-	-	-	5 0.30%
iPhone	86	New entry-	£42,500	-	5 0.30%
Animation	87	New entry-	-	-	4 0.24%	1
Operational Technology	87	New entry-	£65,000	-	4 0.24%	15
3D Printing	87	New entry-	-	-	4 0.24%	6
Blog	87	New entry-	£27,000	-	4 0.24%	1
Device Driver	87	New entry-	-	-	4 0.24%	1
e-Learning	87	Down 31 places-31	£45,000	+38.46%	4 0.24%	1
Raspberry Pi	87	New entry-	-	-	4 0.24%
BeagleBone	87	New entry-	-	-	4 0.24%
FMCG	87	New entry-	£53,413	-	4 0.24%	2
Acoustics	87	New entry-	£90,000	-	4 0.24%	1
CUDA	87	New entry-	-	-	4 0.24%	1
Arduino	87	New entry-	-	-	4 0.24%
EPoS	88	New entry-	£35,000	-	3 0.18%
Mobile App	88	New entry-	£47,500	-	3 0.18%	2
Security Posture	88	New entry-	£65,000	-	3 0.18%	3
VHDL	88	New entry-	-	-	3 0.18%	1
Cyber Threat	88	Down 31 places-31	£65,000	+4.00%	3 0.18%	5
Analytical Mindset	88	Down 37 places-37	-	-	3 0.18%	2
MicroBlaze	89	New entry-	-	-	2 0.12%
Hackathon	89	Down 32 places-32	£77,500	-	2 0.12%	1