General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Southampton

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 31 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
FPGA	33	New entry-	£90,750	-	38 3.66%	8
Driving Licence	42	Down 9 places-9	£34,000	-2.85%	28 2.70%	2
ASIC	52	Down 6 places-6	£100,000	+100.00%	18 1.74%	4
Product Ownership	53	Down 13 places-13	£57,500	-11.53%	17 1.64%	2
Self-Motivation	55	Down 15 places-15	£57,500	+4.54%	15 1.45%	1
Replication	56	Down 13 places-13	£55,000	-8.33%	14 1.35%
Data Centre	57	Down 17 places-17	£70,000	+133.33%	13 1.25%
Life Science	57	Down 15 places-15	£73,500	-	13 1.25%
Algorithms	58	Down 13 places-13	£70,000	+18.49%	12 1.16%	4
Verilog	60	New entry-	£70,000	-	10 0.96%	3
Photography	60	Down 16 places-16	£35,000	-	10 0.96%
Management Information System	60	Down 18 places-18	£95,000	+94.17%	10 0.96%	3
PMI	62	Down 20 places-20	£100,000	-	8 0.77%
VHDL	63	New entry-	£70,000	-	7 0.68%	4
PCIe	63	Down 20 places-20	£77,500	-	7 0.68%	1
Onboarding	63	Down 27 places-27	£57,500	+17.52%	7 0.68%	1
NHS	63	Down 19 places-19	£50,000	-	7 0.68%	2
Renewable Energy	63	Down 17 places-17	£47,500	-47.22%	7 0.68%	2
Enterprise Software	63	Down 17 places-17	£80,000	+60.00%	7 0.68%	1
Web Conferencing	64	Down 23 places-23	£37,500	-	6 0.58%
Cloud Native	64	New entry-	£81,013	-	6 0.58%
Social Media	65	Down 25 places-25	£40,000	+33.33%	5 0.48%
FMCG	65	New entry-	£50,000	-	5 0.48%	1
Greenfield Project	65	Down 19 places-19	£55,000	+10.00%	5 0.48%
Smartphone	66	New entry-	-	-	4 0.39%
Mobile App	66	Down 25 places-25	£57,500	-19.29%	4 0.39%
Mobile Games	66	New entry-	-	-	4 0.39%
Learning Management System	67	Down 21 places-21	£57,500	+35.29%	3 0.29%
SIMD	67	New entry-	£47,500	-	3 0.29%	1
IoT	67	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.29%
Client/Server	67	New entry-	£38,000	-	3 0.29%
AI Agents	67	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.29%
SystemC	67	New entry-	£152,500	-	3 0.29%
e-Learning	68	Down 26 places-26	-	-	2 0.19%
Legacy Systems	68	Down 22 places-22	£65,000	-	2 0.19%
Legacy Code	68	New entry-	£62,500	-	2 0.19%
Linux Command Line	68	Down 22 places-22	£60,000	-	2 0.19%
Security Operations Centre	69	Down 23 places-23	£45,000	-	1 0.096%
Data Structures	69	Down 24 places-24	£90,000	-	1 0.096%
Robotics	69	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.096%	1
Distributed Systems	69	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.096%	3
Distributed Architecture	69	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.096%
Operational Technology	69	Down 23 places-23	£95,000	-	1 0.096%	1
Cyber Threat	69	Down 25 places-25	£65,000	+32.85%	1 0.096%
Virtual Team	69	Down 24 places-24	£60,000	-14.28%	1 0.096%
Digital Media	69	New entry-	£55,000	-	1 0.096%
Cyber Warfare	69	New entry-	£27,282	-	1 0.096%	1
Cyber Defence	69	New entry-	£45,000	-	1 0.096%
Embedded Systems	69	New entry-	£86,500	-	1 0.096%	2