General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the South East

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
IoT	30	Up 179 places+179	£55,000	-	669 4.69%	43
Self-Motivation	100	Up 19 places+19	£42,250	-32.40%	240 1.68%	195
Onboarding	104	Up 46 places+46	£40,000	+10.34%	229 1.61%	232
Driving Licence	107	Down -4 places-4	£37,500	-16.66%	224 1.57%	180
Management Information System	130	Down -42 places-42	£52,500	-6.66%	187 1.31%	96
Data Centre	133	Down -25 places-25	£65,000	+30.00%	180 1.26%	100
Social Media	154	Down -30 places-30	£40,252	+5.02%	156 1.09%	72
Cyberattack	156	Up 74 places+74	-	-	153 1.07%	31
Product Ownership	156	Down -44 places-44	£71,750	+2.50%	153 1.07%	122
Life Science	166	Up 53 places+53	£45,000	+28.57%	137 0.96%	34
Mobile App	177	Up 8 places+8	£60,000	+26.31%	123 0.86%	38
Cloud Native	207	Down -9 places-9	£70,000	+12.00%	88 0.62%	131
Algorithms	210	Down -117 places-117	£60,000	-3.22%	85 0.60%	88
Analytical Mindset	213	Up 16 places+16	£45,000	-21.73%	82 0.58%	59
Robotics	218	Down -1 place-1	£62,500	-30.55%	77 0.54%	40
EPoS	218	Up 33 places+33	£30,000	+15.38%	77 0.54%	6
NHS	221	Up 13 places+13	£61,250	+44.11%	74 0.52%	44
Distributed Systems	229	Down -30 places-30	£72,500	+13.72%	66 0.46%	67
Enterprise Software	236	Down -46 places-46	£65,000	+8.33%	59 0.41%	47
Embedded Systems	239	Down -25 places-25	£65,000	+18.18%	56 0.39%	62
Web Conferencing	240	Up 1 place+1	£39,252	-30.83%	55 0.39%	12
Smart Home	241	Up 14 places+14	£47,500	+120.93%	54 0.38%	16
FMCG	242	Down -41 places-41	£40,000	-44.82%	53 0.37%	8
Legacy Systems	244	Down -35 places-35	£57,303	-0.34%	51 0.36%	34
Blog	245	Down -13 places-13	£20,000	-42.85%	50 0.35%	6
Security Operations Centre	246	Down -6 places-6	£65,000	+32.65%	49 0.34%	9
Security Posture	247	Down -52 places-52	£62,500	+13.63%	48 0.34%	30
CCTV	249	Down -20 places-20	£40,000	-37.25%	46 0.32%	43
Low-Code	253	No change0	£45,000	+32.35%	42 0.29%	13
Hybrid Cloud	253	Down -23 places-23	£65,000	-1.88%	42 0.29%	23
Cyber Threat	260	Down -28 places-28	£60,000	+26.31%	35 0.25%	52
FPGA	260	Down -33 places-33	£70,000	+12.00%	35 0.25%	40
Client/Server	262	Down -41 places-41	£35,500	-27.17%	33 0.23%	9
Acoustics	262	Down -11 places-11	£70,450	+12.21%	33 0.23%	8
PKI	263	Down -23 places-23	£67,500	+17.39%	32 0.22%	34
Renewable Energy	267	Down -35 places-35	£50,000	-	28 0.20%	5
Greenfield Project	267	Down -94 places-94	£60,000	-	28 0.20%	28
e-Learning	268	Down -37 places-37	£40,000	-23.80%	27 0.19%	11
Team-Oriented Environment	269	Down -17 places-17	£60,000	+6.66%	26 0.18%	3
Marketing Technology	270	Down -45 places-45	£50,000	-9.09%	25 0.18%	36
Private Cloud	270	Down -37 places-37	£58,750	-2.08%	25 0.18%	12
Enterprise Cloud	270	Down -18 places-18	£47,500	-38.70%	25 0.18%	4
Replication	271	Down -29 places-29	£60,000	+20.00%	24 0.17%	11
Educational Technology	272	Down -17 places-17	£50,000	+60.00%	23 0.16%	5
Augmented Reality	272	Down -24 places-24	£55,000	+4.76%	23 0.16%	4
Data Structures	272	Down -61 places-61	£49,000	+8.88%	23 0.16%	49
Video Conferencing	273	Down -43 places-43	£40,000	-5.88%	22 0.15%	19
SCADA	274	Down -31 places-31	£55,000	-	21 0.15%	20
Learning Management System	274	Down -28 places-28	£33,250	-26.92%	21 0.15%	10
Smart Energy	274	New entry-	-	-	21 0.15%	2