General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Southampton

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 24 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
FPGA	35	New entry-	£86,500	-	37 3.65%	17
Driving Licence	43	Down 11 places-11	£32,750	-6.42%	29 2.86%	8
Product Ownership	56	Down 18 places-18	£57,500	-11.53%	16 1.58%	11
ASIC	56	Down 12 places-12	£100,000	+100.00%	16 1.58%	11
Self-Motivation	57	Down 18 places-18	£57,500	+4.54%	15 1.48%	9
Life Science	59	Down 19 places-19	£73,500	-	13 1.28%	2
Replication	59	Down 17 places-17	£55,000	-8.33%	13 1.28%	3
Algorithms	59	Down 16 places-16	£70,000	+18.49%	13 1.28%	8
Verilog	61	New entry-	£70,000	-	11 1.08%	7
Data Centre	61	Down 23 places-23	£70,000	+133.33%	11 1.08%	2
Photography	62	Down 20 places-20	£35,000	-	10 0.99%
PCIe	63	Down 22 places-22	£70,000	-	9 0.89%	3
PMI	64	Down 24 places-24	£100,000	-	8 0.79%
Management Information System	64	Down 25 places-25	£95,000	+94.17%	8 0.79%	18
VHDL	64	New entry-	£70,000	-	8 0.79%	7
Onboarding	65	Down 31 places-31	£57,500	+17.52%	7 0.69%	12
NHS	65	Down 23 places-23	£50,000	-	7 0.69%	4
Cloud Native	65	New entry-	£81,013	-	7 0.69%	11
Enterprise Software	65	Down 21 places-21	£80,000	+60.00%	7 0.69%	7
Renewable Energy	65	Down 21 places-21	£47,500	-47.22%	7 0.69%	2
Web Conferencing	66	Down 27 places-27	£37,500	-	6 0.59%	1
Greenfield Project	66	New entry-	£55,000	-	6 0.59%	1
FMCG	67	New entry-	£50,000	-	5 0.49%
Social Media	67	Down 29 places-29	£40,000	+33.33%	5 0.49%	1
Mobile Games	68	New entry-	-	-	4 0.39%
IoT	68	New entry-	£75,000	-	4 0.39%
Client/Server	68	New entry-	£38,000	-	4 0.39%
Smartphone	68	New entry-	-	-	4 0.39%
SystemC	69	New entry-	£152,500	-	3 0.30%	2
AI Agents	69	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.30%	1
Mobile App	69	Down 30 places-30	£55,000	-22.80%	3 0.30%	2
Virtual Team	70	Down 27 places-27	£58,750	-16.07%	2 0.20%	3
Linux Command Line	70	Down 26 places-26	£60,000	-	2 0.20%	1
SIMD	70	New entry-	£47,500	-	2 0.20%	1
Legacy Systems	70	Down 27 places-27	£65,000	-	2 0.20%	3
Legacy Code	70	New entry-	£62,500	-	2 0.20%
Distributed Systems	71	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.099%	7
Distributed Architecture	71	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.099%	2
Digital Media	71	New entry-	£55,000	-	1 0.099%
Robotics	71	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.099%	7
Cyber Threat	71	Down 28 places-28	£65,000	+32.85%	1 0.099%	1
Embedded Systems	71	New entry-	£86,500	-	1 0.099%	5
Operational Technology	71	New entry-	£95,000	-	1 0.099%	2
Cyber Warfare	71	New entry-	£27,282	-	1 0.099%	1
Cyber Defence	71	New entry-	£45,000	-	1 0.099%
Learning Management System	71	Down 27 places-27	£57,500	+35.29%	1 0.099%
Security Operations Centre	71	New entry-	£45,000	-	1 0.099%	1
Data Structures	71	Down 29 places-29	£90,000	-	1 0.099%	2