General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Somerset

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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
Legacy Systems	26	Up 5 places+5	£50,000	-13.04%	59 5.20%	2
Self-Motivation	41	Down 4 places-4	£35,000	-	39 3.44%	11
Driving Licence	46	Down 32 places-32	£32,000	-1.53%	34 3.00%	14
Management Information System	48	Down 3 places-3	£32,000	-14.66%	32 2.82%	14
Cloud Native	52	Down 3 places-3	£57,500	+27.77%	28 2.47%	3
Onboarding	54	Down 9 places-9	£70,000	+86.66%	26 2.29%	8
NHS	56	No change0	£52,000	+101.80%	24 2.11%	6
Social Media	66	Down 13 places-13	£26,227	+7.04%	14 1.23%	1
Product Ownership	67	Down 14 places-14	£57,053	-25.17%	13 1.15%	6
Virtual Team	71	New entry-	-	-	9 0.79%
Mobile App	72	Down 20 places-20	£26,227	-47.54%	8 0.70%	4
Cyber Threat	72	New entry-	£47,500	-	8 0.70%	5
Smartphone	72	Down 15 places-15	-	-	8 0.70%
Mobile Games	73	New entry-	-	-	7 0.62%
Analytical Mindset	73	Down 17 places-17	£44,000	+46.66%	7 0.62%	1
Podcast	73	Down 27 places-27	£26,227	-	7 0.62%
Web Conferencing	73	Down 16 places-16	£26,227	-	7 0.62%
Renewable Energy	74	Down 43 places-43	£41,500	-	6 0.53%
FMCG	74	Down 24 places-24	£53,400	+246.23%	6 0.53%
Data Centre	74	Down 18 places-18	£75,000	+87.50%	6 0.53%	5
Acoustics	75	New entry-	-	-	5 0.44%	1
Robotics	75	New entry-	£42,500	-	5 0.44%	11
Smart Meter	75	New entry-	£40,000	-	5 0.44%	2
Security Posture	75	New entry-	£45,000	-	5 0.44%	4
LIMS	75	Down 19 places-19	£44,038	+70.90%	5 0.44%
Digital Media	76	New entry-	£39,000	-	4 0.35%
Embedded Systems	76	New entry-	£55,000	-	4 0.35%	2
Industry 4.0	76	New entry-	£90,000	-	4 0.35%
Fibre Optics	76	New entry-	£65,000	-	4 0.35%
Analogue Electronics	76	New entry-	£50,000	-	4 0.35%	3
IoT	77	New entry-	£40,000	-	3 0.26%
Team-Oriented Environment	77	Down 20 places-20	£40,000	-23.80%	3 0.26%	1
Distributed Systems	77	New entry-	-	-	3 0.26%	2
Hybrid Cloud	77	New entry-	£71,725	-	3 0.26%	2
PDA	77	New entry-	£39,000	-	3 0.26%
GNSS	78	New entry-	£56,250	-	2 0.18%
Data Structures	78	Down 23 places-23	£65,000	-	2 0.18%
Public Cloud	78	New entry-	-	-	2 0.18%
PKI	78	New entry-	-	-	2 0.18%	2
SWIFT Messaging Network	78	New entry-	-	-	2 0.18%
CCTV	78	Down 22 places-22	£24,000	-26.15%	2 0.18%	5
Mainframe	79	New entry-	-	-	1 0.088%
Taxonomies	79	New entry-	-	-	1 0.088%
Greenfield Project	79	New entry-	-	-	1 0.088%	1
SCADA	79	New entry-	-	-	1 0.088%
Life Science	79	Down 23 places-23	-	-	1 0.088%
Enterprise Software	79	Down 22 places-22	-	-	1 0.088%
Video Conferencing	79	New entry-	£41,498	-	1 0.088%	2
Reference Data	79	New entry-	-	-	1 0.088%
Algorithms	79	Down 22 places-22	£32,258	-19.35%	1 0.088%	2