General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Southampton

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
FPGA	32	Up 13 places+13	£90,750	-	38 3.57%	4
Driving Licence	41	Down 9 places-9	£34,000	-2.85%	28 2.63%	4
Product Ownership	50	Down 8 places-8	£57,500	-11.53%	19 1.78%	3
ASIC	51	Down 6 places-6	£100,000	+100.00%	18 1.69%	2
Self-Motivation	55	Down 17 places-17	£57,500	+4.54%	14 1.31%	1
Replication	56	Down 14 places-14	£55,000	-8.33%	13 1.22%	1
Algorithms	56	Down 11 places-11	£70,000	+10.84%	13 1.22%	5
Data Centre	56	Down 17 places-17	£70,000	+133.33%	13 1.22%	4
Life Science	56	Down 15 places-15	£73,500	-	13 1.22%
Management Information System	59	Down 17 places-17	£95,000	+94.17%	10 0.94%	4
Verilog	59	New entry-	£70,000	-	10 0.94%	3
Photography	59	Down 16 places-16	£35,000	-	10 0.94%
Renewable Energy	61	Down 16 places-16	£46,250	-48.61%	8 0.75%	3
PMI	61	Down 20 places-20	£100,000	-	8 0.75%
NHS	61	Down 18 places-18	£50,000	-	8 0.75%	4
Enterprise Software	62	Down 17 places-17	£80,000	+60.00%	7 0.66%	3
VHDL	62	New entry-	£70,000	-	7 0.66%	2
PCIe	62	Down 20 places-20	£77,500	-	7 0.66%
Onboarding	62	Down 27 places-27	£57,500	+17.52%	7 0.66%	4
Web Conferencing	63	Down 23 places-23	£37,500	-	6 0.56%
Cloud Native	63	New entry-	£81,013	-	6 0.56%	1
FMCG	64	New entry-	£50,000	-	5 0.47%	1
Greenfield Project	64	Down 19 places-19	£55,000	+10.00%	5 0.47%
Social Media	64	Down 25 places-25	£40,000	+33.33%	5 0.47%
Mobile App	65	Down 25 places-25	£57,500	-19.29%	4 0.38%	1
Mobile Games	65	New entry-	-	-	4 0.38%
SIMD	65	New entry-	£47,500	-	4 0.38%	2
Smartphone	65	New entry-	-	-	4 0.38%
Learning Management System	66	Down 21 places-21	£57,500	+35.29%	3 0.28%
Client/Server	66	New entry-	£38,000	-	3 0.28%
AI Agents	66	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.28%	1
SystemC	66	New entry-	£152,500	-	3 0.28%
e-Learning	67	Down 24 places-24	-	-	2 0.19%
IoT	67	New entry-	£76,250	-	2 0.19%
Legacy Systems	67	New entry-	£65,000	-	2 0.19%
Legacy Code	67	New entry-	£62,500	-	2 0.19%
Linux Command Line	67	Down 22 places-22	£60,000	-	2 0.19%
Embedded Systems	68	Down 23 places-23	£86,500	-	1 0.094%	3
Security Operations Centre	68	Down 26 places-26	£45,000	-	1 0.094%
Data Structures	68	Down 23 places-23	£90,000	-	1 0.094%
Robotics	68	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.094%
Distributed Systems	68	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.094%	4
Distributed Architecture	68	New entry-	£72,500	-	1 0.094%
Operational Technology	68	Down 26 places-26	£95,000	-	1 0.094%	1
Cyber Threat	68	Down 28 places-28	£65,000	+32.85%	1 0.094%	3
Virtual Team	68	Down 24 places-24	£60,000	-14.28%	1 0.094%
Digital Media	68	New entry-	£55,000	-	1 0.094%
Cyber Warfare	68	New entry-	£27,282	-	1 0.094%	1
Cyber Defence	68	New entry-	£45,000	-	1 0.094%