General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the South East

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 21 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	31	Up 175 places+175	£55,000	-4.34%	668 4.70%	200
Self-Motivation	100	Up 23 places+23	£42,250	-32.40%	247 1.74%	200
Onboarding	105	Up 41 places+41	£40,000	+6.66%	233 1.64%	237
Driving Licence	110	Down -4 places-4	£37,500	-16.66%	223 1.57%	188
Management Information System	134	Down -51 places-51	£52,500	-8.96%	183 1.29%	94
Data Centre	136	Down -25 places-25	£65,000	+26.82%	178 1.25%	105
Social Media	151	Down -20 places-20	£40,000	+4.37%	159 1.12%	111
Product Ownership	155	Down -40 places-40	£71,750	+2.50%	154 1.08%	157
Cyberattack	156	Up 53 places+53	-	-	153 1.08%	29
Life Science	164	Up 50 places+50	£45,000	+28.57%	136 0.96%	30
Mobile App	175	Up 7 places+7	£60,000	+26.31%	122 0.86%	53
Cloud Native	209	Down -18 places-18	£70,000	+12.00%	87 0.61%	76
Algorithms	217	Down -123 places-123	£60,000	-3.22%	79 0.56%	100
Robotics	218	Down -5 places-5	£62,500	-30.55%	78 0.55%	44
Analytical Mindset	219	Up 9 places+9	£45,000	-21.73%	77 0.54%	58
EPoS	219	Up 28 places+28	£30,000	+15.38%	77 0.54%	6
NHS	222	Up 7 places+7	£61,250	+44.11%	74 0.52%	41
Distributed Systems	230	Down -37 places-37	£75,000	+17.64%	66 0.46%	53
Enterprise Software	237	Down -50 places-50	£65,000	+8.33%	59 0.42%	57
Web Conferencing	240	Down -2 places-2	£40,504	-28.62%	56 0.39%	16
Embedded Systems	241	Down -28 places-28	£65,000	+8.33%	55 0.39%	84
FMCG	243	Down -46 places-46	£40,000	-44.82%	53 0.37%	10
Legacy Systems	245	Down -41 places-41	£65,000	+13.04%	51 0.36%	62
Smart Home	245	Up 6 places+6	£45,000	+109.30%	51 0.36%	21
Blog	246	Down -25 places-25	£20,000	-61.90%	50 0.35%	6
Security Posture	246	Down -52 places-52	£62,500	+6.38%	50 0.35%	35
Security Operations Centre	248	Down -11 places-11	£65,000	+32.65%	48 0.34%	14
CCTV	249	Down -24 places-24	£40,000	-37.25%	47 0.33%	46
Low-Code	253	Down -6 places-6	£45,000	+32.35%	43 0.30%	11
Hybrid Cloud	257	Down -29 places-29	£65,000	-1.88%	39 0.27%	27
FPGA	261	Down -36 places-36	£70,000	+12.00%	35 0.25%	52
PKI	263	Down -25 places-25	£62,750	+9.13%	33 0.23%	35
Client/Server	264	Down -46 places-46	£35,500	-29.00%	32 0.23%	11
Acoustics	264	Down -17 places-17	£75,900	+20.89%	32 0.23%	11
Cyber Threat	265	Down -36 places-36	£60,000	+26.31%	31 0.22%	43
Renewable Energy	267	Down -39 places-39	£50,000	-	29 0.20%	3
Team-Oriented Environment	268	Down -20 places-20	£60,000	+6.66%	28 0.20%	4
Greenfield Project	268	Down -100 places-100	£60,000	-	28 0.20%	31
e-Learning	268	Down -37 places-37	£40,500	-22.85%	28 0.20%	16
Enterprise Cloud	270	Down -22 places-22	£47,500	-38.70%	26 0.18%	2
Marketing Technology	271	Down -50 places-50	£50,000	-9.09%	25 0.18%	58
Educational Technology	271	Down -20 places-20	£50,000	+60.00%	25 0.18%	9
Private Cloud	271	Down -41 places-41	£58,750	-2.08%	25 0.18%	16
Replication	271	Down -33 places-33	£60,000	+9.09%	25 0.18%	9
Augmented Reality	273	Down -30 places-30	£55,000	-6.38%	23 0.16%	6
Data Structures	273	Down -66 places-66	£49,000	+8.88%	23 0.16%	58
Video Conferencing	274	Down -47 places-47	£38,250	-10.00%	22 0.15%	20
SCADA	275	Down -35 places-35	£55,000	-4.34%	21 0.15%	31
Learning Management System	275	Down -33 places-33	£33,250	-26.92%	21 0.15%	10
Foreign Exchange (FX)	275	Down -25 places-25	£85,000	-	21 0.15%	14