General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the South East

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	29	Up 189 places+189	£55,000	-	668 4.58%	208
Self-Motivation	103	Up 26 places+26	£42,500	-29.16%	237 1.63%	200
Driving Licence	104	Down -65 places-65	£37,500	-11.76%	231 1.59%	170
Onboarding	110	Up 42 places+42	£40,000	+6.66%	218 1.50%	241
Management Information System	129	Down -35 places-35	£53,500	-2.72%	189 1.30%	109
Data Centre	133	Down -15 places-15	£65,000	+32.65%	183 1.26%	99
Social Media	149	Down -46 places-46	£40,504	+5.68%	161 1.10%	81
Product Ownership	150	Down -29 places-29	£70,000	+7.27%	160 1.10%	136
Cyberattack	155	Up 43 places+43	-	-	153 1.05%	3
Life Science	166	Up 65 places+65	£45,000	-10.00%	140 0.96%	40
Mobile App	177	Up 14 places+14	£60,000	+20.00%	125 0.86%	42
Cloud Native	198	Up 8 places+8	£70,000	+12.00%	99 0.68%	92
Algorithms	201	Down -99 places-99	£60,000	-3.22%	96 0.66%	103
Analytical Mindset	214	Up 13 places+13	£44,000	-23.47%	83 0.57%	73
EPoS	218	Up 40 places+40	£30,000	+15.38%	78 0.54%	10
NHS	220	Up 21 places+21	£60,000	+41.17%	76 0.52%	50
Distributed Systems	228	Down -20 places-20	£70,000	+9.80%	68 0.47%	58
Embedded Systems	229	Down -10 places-10	£63,750	+15.90%	67 0.46%	72
Robotics	235	Down -13 places-13	£62,500	-30.55%	61 0.42%	46
Enterprise Software	237	Down -52 places-52	£65,000	+8.33%	59 0.40%	46
Smart Home	237	Up 23 places+23	£47,500	+84.46%	59 0.40%	22
Web Conferencing	243	Up 2 places+2	£38,000	-33.03%	53 0.36%	15
FMCG	244	Down -35 places-35	£37,500	-48.27%	52 0.36%	13
Legacy Systems	244	Down -34 places-34	£57,303	-0.34%	52 0.36%	43
Security Operations Centre	249	Down -5 places-5	£65,000	+32.65%	47 0.32%	18
Blog	249	Up 4 places+4	£20,000	-42.85%	47 0.32%	10
Security Posture	251	Down -54 places-54	£60,000	+9.09%	45 0.31%	44
Hybrid Cloud	252	Down -22 places-22	£65,000	-23.52%	44 0.30%	26
CCTV	253	Down -16 places-16	£41,250	-26.66%	43 0.30%	55
Low-Code	255	Up 5 places+5	£45,000	+32.35%	41 0.28%	17
FPGA	256	Down -20 places-20	£70,000	+12.00%	40 0.27%	48
Acoustics	260	Down -2 places-2	£65,000	+3.53%	36 0.25%	8
PKI	261	Down -16 places-16	£67,500	+17.39%	35 0.24%	17
Client/Server	263	Down -36 places-36	£35,500	-25.26%	33 0.23%	8
Cyber Threat	263	Down -27 places-27	£60,000	+22.44%	33 0.23%	29
Greenfield Project	267	Down -87 places-87	£60,000	-	29 0.20%	33
Renewable Energy	267	Down -26 places-26	£50,000	+2.56%	29 0.20%	6
Private Cloud	269	Down -29 places-29	£55,000	-8.33%	27 0.19%	12
e-Learning	271	Down -43 places-43	£41,000	-21.90%	25 0.17%	13
Marketing Technology	271	Down -40 places-40	£50,000	+17.64%	25 0.17%	45
Team-Oriented Environment	271	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	+6.66%	25 0.17%	6
Enterprise Cloud	273	Down -14 places-14	£47,500	-38.70%	23 0.16%	6
Replication	273	Down -25 places-25	£60,000	+20.00%	23 0.16%	14
SCADA	273	Down -29 places-29	£55,000	-	23 0.16%	23
Learning Management System	273	Down -21 places-21	£29,000	-37.63%	23 0.16%	14
Data Structures	273	Down -57 places-57	£49,000	+8.88%	23 0.16%	47
Smart Energy	274	New entry-	-	-	22 0.15%	1
Educational Technology	274	Down -11 places-11	£50,000	+33.33%	22 0.15%	12
Augmented Reality	274	Down -19 places-19	£55,000	+4.76%	22 0.15%	7
Video Conferencing	276	Down -40 places-40	£40,000	-5.88%	20 0.14%	19