General & Transferable Skills Statistics in South Wales

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Smartphone	10	New entry-	£31,519	-	178 7.73%	2
Mobile Games	11	New entry-	-	-	177 7.68%
Onboarding	52	Down 23 places-23	£35,000	-30.00%	52 2.26%	22
Management Information System	64	Down 7 places-7	£35,981	-28.03%	39 1.69%	17
Self-Motivation	72	Down 17 places-17	£39,197	-38.51%	31 1.35%	13
Data Centre	74	Down 20 places-20	£90,000	+12.50%	29 1.26%	37
Driving Licence	75	Down 18 places-18	£40,000	+42.85%	28 1.22%	15
Cloud Native	77	Down 17 places-17	£70,000	-6.66%	26 1.13%	13
Social Media	81	Down 17 places-17	£32,500	-31.57%	22 0.95%	19
Smart City	83	Down 19 places-19	£25,500	-57.50%	20 0.87%	1
Smart Home	84	New entry-	-	-	19 0.82%	1
NHS	85	Down 21 places-21	£37,250	-	18 0.78%	17
Industrial Internet of Things	86	New entry-	£52,500	-	17 0.74%
Operational Technology	86	Down 35 places-35	£76,250	+36.16%	17 0.74%	1
CCTV	87	New entry-	£25,500	-	16 0.69%	2
Enterprise Software	89	Down 32 places-32	£53,076	+6.15%	14 0.61%	15
Legacy Systems	89	Down 51 places-51	£52,500	-4.54%	14 0.61%	11
Graphic Design	90	New entry-	£32,500	-	13 0.56%
Embedded Systems	91	Down 35 places-35	£77,500	+19.23%	12 0.52%	10
Mobile App	91	Down 29 places-29	£55,000	-12.00%	12 0.52%	11
Low-Code	91	Down 27 places-27	£60,000	-	12 0.52%
Security Posture	92	Down 31 places-31	£55,000	+1.38%	11 0.48%	2
Cyber Threat	95	Down 39 places-39	£45,000	-10.00%	8 0.35%	15
Housing Association	95	New entry-	£60,000	-	8 0.35%	1
e-Learning	96	Down 37 places-37	£35,500	-	7 0.30%	9
Virtual Team	96	Down 51 places-51	-	-	7 0.30%
Renewable Energy	96	Down 32 places-32	£80,000	+77.77%	7 0.30%
Data Protection Act	96	New entry-	-	-	7 0.30%	1
SCADA	96	Down 35 places-35	£70,000	-	7 0.30%	4
Hybrid Cloud	97	Down 53 places-53	£54,085	-1.66%	6 0.26%	4
EPoS	97	Down 37 places-37	£35,000	-	6 0.26%
Product Ownership	97	Down 42 places-42	£64,750	+17.79%	6 0.26%	15
AI Agents	97	New entry-	£85,000	-	6 0.26%	12
Data Structures	98	Down 36 places-36	£42,500	-15.37%	5 0.22%	3
Distributed Systems	98	Down 37 places-37	£71,991	-3.23%	5 0.22%	17
Security Operations Centre	99	Down 37 places-37	-	-	4 0.17%	2
Cyber Defence	99	New entry-	£54,085	-	4 0.17%
CMDB	99	Down 37 places-37	£47,009	-16.05%	4 0.17%	2
Podcast	99	Down 36 places-36	£26,227	-16.07%	4 0.17%
Reference Data	99	New entry-	£74,500	-	4 0.17%
Web Conferencing	99	Down 35 places-35	£26,227	-44.78%	4 0.17%
IoT	100	Down 61 places-61	£47,500	-7.76%	3 0.13%	8
Greenfield Project	100	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.13%	3
Photography	100	New entry-	£32,500	-	3 0.13%
Video Editing	100	New entry-	£32,500	-	3 0.13%
FMCG	100	Down 38 places-38	£53,000	-	3 0.13%	1
Learning Management System	100	New entry-	£35,500	-	3 0.13%	1
Chip and PIN	101	New entry-	£37,500	-	2 0.087%
Mainframe	101	New entry-	£62,000	-	2 0.087%
Replication	101	New entry-	£50,000	-	2 0.087%	1