General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the South East

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 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	-2.22%	668 4.69%	43
Self-Motivation	94	Up 27 places+27	£42,500	-32.00%	246 1.73%	201
Onboarding	97	Up 49 places+49	£40,000	+6.66%	234 1.64%	230
Driving Licence	101	Up 3 places+3	£37,500	-16.66%	223 1.57%	189
Management Information System	125	Down -36 places-36	£52,500	-8.96%	187 1.31%	98
Data Centre	129	Down -18 places-18	£65,000	+23.80%	179 1.26%	105
Social Media	145	Down -18 places-18	£40,504	+5.68%	157 1.10%	72
Product Ownership	147	Down -31 places-31	£71,750	+4.74%	154 1.08%	126
Cyberattack	148	Up 81 places+81	-	-	153 1.07%	31
Life Science	159	Up 58 places+58	£45,000	+28.57%	137 0.96%	33
Mobile App	170	Up 13 places+13	£60,000	+26.31%	122 0.86%	42
Cloud Native	202	Down -7 places-7	£70,000	+12.00%	88 0.62%	137
Algorithms	206	Down -111 places-111	£60,000	-3.22%	84 0.59%	96
Robotics	212	Up 4 places+4	£62,500	-30.55%	78 0.55%	36
Analytical Mindset	213	Up 16 places+16	£45,000	-21.73%	77 0.54%	58
EPoS	213	Up 37 places+37	£30,000	+15.38%	77 0.54%	7
NHS	216	Up 17 places+17	£61,250	+44.11%	74 0.52%	44
Distributed Systems	224	Down -27 places-27	£72,500	+13.72%	66 0.46%	64
Enterprise Software	231	Down -42 places-42	£65,000	+8.33%	59 0.41%	47
Embedded Systems	235	Down -19 places-19	£65,000	+8.33%	55 0.39%	71
Web Conferencing	235	Up 5 places+5	£40,504	-28.62%	55 0.39%	12
FMCG	236	Down -36 places-36	£40,000	-44.82%	54 0.38%	7
Smart Home	237	Up 17 places+17	£47,500	+120.93%	53 0.37%	18
Legacy Systems	239	Down -31 places-31	£57,303	-0.34%	51 0.36%	40
Blog	240	Down -16 places-16	£20,000	-61.90%	50 0.35%	5
Security Posture	241	Down -47 places-47	£62,500	+13.63%	49 0.34%	31
Security Operations Centre	241	Down -2 places-2	£65,000	+32.65%	49 0.34%	10
CCTV	244	Down -16 places-16	£40,000	-37.25%	46 0.32%	42
Hybrid Cloud	248	Down -19 places-19	£65,000	-1.88%	42 0.29%	23
Low-Code	248	Up 4 places+4	£45,000	+32.35%	42 0.29%	12
FPGA	255	Down -29 places-29	£70,000	+12.00%	35 0.25%	49
PKI	257	Down -18 places-18	£62,750	+9.13%	33 0.23%	33
Acoustics	257	Down -7 places-7	£70,450	+12.21%	33 0.23%	9
Cyber Threat	257	Down -26 places-26	£60,000	+26.31%	33 0.23%	48
Client/Server	258	Down -38 places-38	£35,500	-27.17%	32 0.22%	9
Greenfield Project	261	Down -89 places-89	£60,000	-	29 0.20%	30
e-Learning	262	Down -32 places-32	£40,500	-22.85%	28 0.20%	13
Renewable Energy	262	Down -31 places-31	£50,000	-	28 0.20%	5
Team-Oriented Environment	263	Down -12 places-12	£60,000	+6.66%	27 0.19%	2
Private Cloud	265	Down -34 places-34	£58,750	-2.08%	25 0.18%	18
Enterprise Cloud	265	Down -14 places-14	£47,500	-38.70%	25 0.18%	6
Replication	265	Down -24 places-24	£60,000	+20.00%	25 0.18%	8
Marketing Technology	265	Down -41 places-41	£50,000	-9.09%	25 0.18%	34
Educational Technology	266	Down -12 places-12	£50,000	+60.00%	24 0.17%	7
Video Conferencing	267	Down -38 places-38	£40,000	-5.88%	23 0.16%	20
Augmented Reality	267	Down -21 places-21	£55,000	-6.38%	23 0.16%	4
Data Structures	267	Down -57 places-57	£49,000	+8.88%	23 0.16%	55
Smart Energy	269	New entry-	-	-	21 0.15%	3
Learning Management System	269	Down -24 places-24	£33,250	-26.92%	21 0.15%	11
Foreign Exchange (FX)	269	Down -16 places-16	£85,000	-	21 0.15%	17