General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the South West

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 30 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	55	Down 21 places-21	£38,993	+14.68%	304 2.71%	81
Self-Motivation	67	Up 13 places+13	£40,000	+14.28%	270 2.41%	54
Cloud Native	77	Up 48 places+48	£75,000	+20.00%	238 2.13%	65
Management Information System	86	Up 12 places+12	£35,000	-27.63%	204 1.82%	97
Onboarding	89	Down 33 places-33	£40,000	+40.35%	197 1.76%	70
Legacy Systems	126	Down 34 places-34	£55,000	-14.52%	136 1.21%	17
Data Centre	130	No change0	£50,000	-21.56%	128 1.14%	32
Robotics	138	Up 32 places+32	£50,000	-5.66%	119 1.06%	33
Product Ownership	171	Down 36 places-36	£62,500	+8.69%	81 0.72%	44
Social Media	181	Down 53 places-53	£26,227	-9.56%	70 0.63%	30
NHS	182	Down 27 places-27	£52,000	+89.09%	69 0.62%	27
Embedded Systems	183	Down 29 places-29	£67,500	+58.82%	68 0.61%	23
FMCG	187	Down 25 places-25	£46,500	+201.49%	64 0.57%	4
Renewable Energy	188	Down 68 places-68	£45,000	-14.28%	63 0.56%	15
Public Cloud	192	Down 40 places-40	£100,000	+33.33%	59 0.53%	9
Analytical Mindset	194	Down 89 places-89	£42,500	-15.00%	57 0.51%	20
Virtual Team	194	Down 19 places-19	£37,500	-40.00%	57 0.51%	6
Smartphone	195	Down 28 places-28	£30,000	+2.42%	56 0.50%
Security Posture	197	Down 33 places-33	£46,743	-8.45%	54 0.48%	36
Enterprise Software	197	Down 36 places-36	£65,000	-3.70%	54 0.48%	36
IoT	197	Down 51 places-51	£56,250	+25.00%	54 0.48%	11
Podcast	199	Down 35 places-35	£26,227	-	52 0.46%
Hybrid Cloud	201	Down 48 places-48	£85,000	+6.25%	50 0.45%	6
Mobile App	202	Down 49 places-49	£30,000	-40.00%	49 0.44%	12
Web Conferencing	203	Down 34 places-34	£26,227	-12.57%	48 0.43%	5
CCTV	204	Down 44 places-44	£42,000	-11.57%	47 0.42%	22
Distributed Systems	209	Down 35 places-35	£91,000	-4.21%	42 0.38%	28
Mobile Games	215	New entry-	-	-	36 0.32%
SCADA	216	Down 49 places-49	£52,500	-8.69%	35 0.31%	17
Operational Technology	218	Down 56 places-56	£70,000	+27.27%	33 0.29%	31
Greenfield Project	218	Down 49 places-49	£65,500	-6.42%	33 0.29%	6
Cyber Threat	220	Down 57 places-57	£50,000	-21.56%	31 0.28%	18
Algorithms	221	Down 85 places-85	£55,500	+36.05%	30 0.27%	40
AI Agents	221	Down 46 places-46	£90,000	+57.89%	30 0.27%	17
FPGA	223	Down 53 places-53	£68,125	-9.16%	28 0.25%	20
Analogue Electronics	223	Down 53 places-53	£52,500	-	28 0.25%	15
Blog	227	Down 58 places-58	£35,000	+16.66%	24 0.21%	16
Private Cloud	232	Down 63 places-63	£70,000	+12.00%	19 0.17%	7
Fibre Optics	232	Down 64 places-64	£65,000	+18.18%	19 0.17%	7
Security Operations Centre	232	Down 61 places-61	£40,000	-22.67%	19 0.17%	2
Replication	232	Down 59 places-59	£53,600	-10.66%	19 0.17%	2
Data Structures	233	Down 83 places-83	£58,000	+9.91%	18 0.16%	15
PKI	233	Down 80 places-80	£77,500	+59.79%	18 0.16%	11
Smart Meter	234	New entry-	£40,000	-	17 0.15%	3
Low-Code	234	Down 64 places-64	£50,000	-13.04%	17 0.15%	14
e-Learning	236	Down 152 places-152	£40,000	+17.64%	15 0.13%	6
Life Science	236	Down 67 places-67	£67,500	-29.68%	15 0.13%	5
PMI	236	New entry-	£48,000	-	15 0.13%	3
VHDL	237	Down 65 places-65	£70,000	-26.31%	14 0.13%	14
CMDB	237	Down 71 places-71	£80,000	+68.42%	14 0.13%	6