General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the South East

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 22 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	91	Up 134 places+134	£55,000	-	271 1.87%	59
Self-Motivation	96	Up 37 places+37	£42,500	-23.51%	252 1.74%	224
Driving Licence	98	Down -61 places-61	£37,500	-16.66%	249 1.72%	196
Onboarding	120	Up 30 places+30	£42,500	+13.33%	207 1.43%	222
Management Information System	129	Down -26 places-26	£52,500	-4.54%	194 1.34%	109
Data Centre	131	Down -8 places-8	£65,000	+30.00%	191 1.32%	101
Product Ownership	139	Down -19 places-19	£68,750	+5.76%	178 1.23%	98
Social Media	150	Down -68 places-68	£45,000	+17.41%	165 1.14%	51
Cyberattack	158	Up 42 places+42	-	-	153 1.06%	6
Mobile App	175	Up 24 places+24	£60,000	+20.00%	129 0.89%	43
Cloud Native	183	Up 18 places+18	£70,000	+9.80%	118 0.82%	82
Life Science	186	Up 53 places+53	£45,000	+28.57%	115 0.79%	38
Algorithms	194	Down -60 places-60	£60,000	-3.22%	107 0.74%	66
NHS	209	Up 15 places+15	£57,000	-24.00%	92 0.64%	53
Analytical Mindset	211	Down -5 places-5	£47,213	-17.89%	90 0.62%	64
EPoS	214	Up 48 places+48	£35,000	+25.00%	87 0.60%	30
Distributed Systems	224	Down -10 places-10	£68,750	+19.56%	76 0.53%	64
Embedded Systems	224	Down -9 places-9	£60,000	+9.09%	76 0.53%	74
Enterprise Software	235	Down -52 places-52	£65,000	+6.12%	65 0.45%	59
Smart Home	236	Up 23 places+23	£48,750	+62.50%	64 0.44%	24
Robotics	242	Down -171 places-171	£66,250	-5.35%	58 0.40%	62
Web Conferencing	246	Down -3 places-3	£39,000	-31.27%	54 0.37%	27
Legacy Systems	250	Down -43 places-43	£57,303	-0.34%	50 0.35%	42
FMCG	250	Down -37 places-37	£35,000	-54.83%	50 0.35%	18
Security Operations Centre	253	Down -8 places-8	£62,500	+27.55%	47 0.32%	21
FPGA	255	Down -29 places-29	£70,000	+12.00%	45 0.31%	39
Hybrid Cloud	255	Down -70 places-70	£65,000	-23.52%	45 0.31%	22
Security Posture	256	Down -51 places-51	£59,490	-4.81%	44 0.30%	46
CCTV	256	Down -17 places-17	£42,500	-15.00%	44 0.30%	53
Client/Server	258	Down -25 places-25	£38,000	+1.33%	42 0.29%	7
Low-Code	259	Down -1 place-1	£45,000	-28.00%	41 0.28%	12
Acoustics	261	Down -4 places-4	£75,900	+20.89%	39 0.27%	10
Greenfield Project	264	Down -74 places-74	£60,000	-	36 0.25%	31
Blog	265	Down -12 places-12	£37,500	+59.57%	35 0.24%	10
Cyber Threat	265	Down -24 places-24	£50,000	+1.01%	35 0.24%	33
Renewable Energy	266	Down -21 places-21	£50,000	-	34 0.23%	9
PKI	270	Down -29 places-29	£67,500	+22.72%	30 0.21%	27
iSeries	271	Down -11 places-11	£60,000	-31.42%	29 0.20%	2
Data Structures	271	Down -56 places-56	£56,000	+12.00%	29 0.20%	44
Private Cloud	271	Down -28 places-28	£55,000	-8.33%	29 0.20%	19
Replication	272	Down -24 places-24	£60,000	+24.35%	28 0.19%	19
Learning Management System	274	Down -23 places-23	£29,000	-38.94%	26 0.18%	10
Team-Oriented Environment	274	Down -14 places-14	£60,000	+6.66%	26 0.18%	2
SCADA	275	Down -31 places-31	£56,250	+2.27%	25 0.17%	14
Marketing Technology	276	Down -45 places-45	-	-	24 0.17%	11
Virtual Team	276	Down -76 places-76	£66,250	+65.62%	24 0.17%	35
Public Cloud	276	Down -39 places-39	£50,000	-20.00%	24 0.17%	22
VHDL	277	Down -30 places-30	£70,000	-	23 0.16%	19
Fibre Optics	277	Down -16 places-16	£35,000	-32.08%	23 0.16%	8
e-Learning	278	Down -98 places-98	£42,500	-19.04%	22 0.15%	7