General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Stevenage

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 27 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Data Centre	9	Up 16 places+16	£46,500	-48.61%	29 8.63%	8
Driving Licence	10	New entry-	£60,000	-	26 7.74%	6
Algorithms	21	Up 4 places+4	£55,000	-	13 3.87%	7
Onboarding	22	New entry-	£67,500	-	12 3.57%	8
Cyber Defence	27	New entry-	-	-	7 2.08%	2
Self-Motivation	27	New entry-	£35,000	-	7 2.08%	5
Robotics	27	New entry-	£55,000	-	7 2.08%	3
Security Operations Centre	27	Down -2 places-2	-	-	7 2.08%	4
Life Science	28	New entry-	£70,000	-	6 1.79%	6
Foreign Exchange (FX)	29	New entry-	£70,000	-	5 1.49%
FMCG	29	New entry-	£40,000	-	5 1.49%	3
Management Information System	30	New entry-	£32,250	-	4 1.19%	6
Mobile Games	30	New entry-	-	-	4 1.19%
Smartphone	30	New entry-	-	-	4 1.19%
Replication	31	New entry-	-	-	3 0.89%	2
Cyber Threat	31	Down -6 places-6	-	-	3 0.89%	7
Enterprise Storage	31	Down -7 places-7	£41,500	-24.54%	3 0.89%	4
Cloud Native	32	Down -8 places-8	£82,500	+15.38%	2 0.60%	1
FPGA	32	Down -11 places-11	£75,000	-	2 0.60%	6
Legacy Systems	32	New entry-	-	-	2 0.60%	4
Security Posture	32	New entry-	£50,000	-	2 0.60%	10
Smart Meter	33	New entry-	£40,000	-	1 0.30%
Hybrid Cloud	33	New entry-	£55,000	-	1 0.30%
Social Media	33	New entry-	-	-	1 0.30%
Analytical Mindset	33	Down -8 places-8	£52,500	+10.52%	1 0.30%	1
VHDL	33	Down -11 places-11	£75,000	-	1 0.30%	3
Verilog	33	Down -11 places-11	£75,000	-	1 0.30%	3
Analogue Electronics	33	New entry-	£54,750	-	1 0.30%	6
Embedded Systems	33	Down -9 places-9	-	-	1 0.30%	1
Distributed Systems	33	New entry-	£65,000	-	1 0.30%
Reference Data	33	New entry-	-	-	1 0.30%