General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Southampton

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
FPGA	35	Up 11 places+11	£95,000	-	43 3.92%	28
Driving Licence	45	Down 12 places-12	£45,000	+28.57%	31 2.83%	13
ASIC	52	Down 6 places-6	£100,000	+100.00%	24 2.19%	11
Product Ownership	58	Down 12 places-12	£57,500	-11.53%	18 1.64%	3
Algorithms	59	Down 13 places-13	£77,500	+22.72%	17 1.55%	19
Self-Motivation	62	Down 23 places-23	£57,500	+4.54%	14 1.28%	12
Data Centre	63	Down 22 places-22	£70,000	+133.33%	13 1.19%	10
Life Science	63	Down 21 places-21	£73,500	-	13 1.19%	1
Replication	65	Down 22 places-22	£55,000	-8.33%	11 1.00%	6
Renewable Energy	65	Down 19 places-19	£45,000	-50.00%	11 1.00%	6
Photography	66	Down 22 places-22	£35,000	-	10 0.91%
Management Information System	66	Down 23 places-23	£95,000	+94.17%	10 0.91%	18
Verilog	67	New entry-	£70,000	-	9 0.82%	10
NHS	67	Down 21 places-21	£50,000	-	9 0.82%	5
PMI	68	Down 26 places-26	£100,000	-	8 0.73%
Onboarding	69	Down 33 places-33	£57,500	+17.52%	7 0.64%	17
Enterprise Software	70	Down 24 places-24	£80,000	+60.00%	6 0.55%	4
VHDL	70	New entry-	£61,250	-	6 0.55%	10
PCIe	70	Down 27 places-27	£82,000	-	6 0.55%	3
Web Conferencing	70	Down 29 places-29	£37,500	-	6 0.55%	6
Cloud Native	70	New entry-	£81,013	-	6 0.55%	8
Social Media	71	Down 31 places-31	£40,000	+33.33%	5 0.46%	2
FMCG	71	New entry-	£50,000	-	5 0.46%	3
Greenfield Project	71	Down 27 places-27	£55,000	+10.00%	5 0.46%
Mobile App	72	Down 31 places-31	£57,500	-19.29%	4 0.36%
Mobile Games	72	New entry-	-	-	4 0.36%
SIMD	72	New entry-	£47,500	-	4 0.36%	6
Smartphone	72	New entry-	-	-	4 0.36%	5
Learning Management System	73	Down 27 places-27	£57,500	+35.29%	3 0.27%
AI Agents	73	New entry-	£55,000	-	3 0.27%	4
Cyber Threat	73	Down 32 places-32	£44,000	-10.06%	3 0.27%	2
SystemC	73	New entry-	£152,500	-	3 0.27%	1
e-Learning	74	Down 29 places-29	-	-	2 0.18%	3
Client/Server	74	New entry-	£32,625	-	2 0.18%
Legacy Code	74	New entry-	£62,500	-	2 0.18%	1
Linux Command Line	74	Down 28 places-28	£60,000	-	2 0.18%	1
Security Operations Centre	75	Down 32 places-32	£45,000	-	1 0.091%
IoT	75	New entry-	£80,000	-	1 0.091%
Data Structures	75	Down 29 places-29	£90,000	-	1 0.091%	4
Legacy Systems	75	New entry-	£57,500	-	1 0.091%	6
Distributed Systems	75	New entry-	-	-	1 0.091%	7
Operational Technology	75	Down 32 places-32	£95,000	-	1 0.091%	4
Virtual Team	75	Down 30 places-30	£60,000	-14.28%	1 0.091%	1
Digital Media	75	New entry-	£55,000	-	1 0.091%	2
Cyber Warfare	75	New entry-	£27,282	-	1 0.091%	1
Cyber Defence	75	New entry-	£45,000	-	1 0.091%
Embedded Systems	75	Down 29 places-29	£86,500	-	1 0.091%	8