General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the Thames Valley

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 26 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	47	Down 23 places-23	£40,000	+15.10%	240 3.10%	61
Data Centre	53	Up 64 places+64	£63,000	+7.23%	214 2.77%	23
Onboarding	58	Up 44 places+44	£50,000	+23.45%	204 2.64%	50
Self-Motivation	72	Up 6 places+6	£43,750	+9.37%	175 2.26%	40
Management Information System	102	Down 20 places-20	£41,420	-40.82%	115 1.49%	50
Cloud Native	117	Up 20 places+20	£85,000	+21.42%	95 1.23%	13
Product Ownership	123	Up 33 places+33	£63,750	+6.25%	88 1.14%	23
Embedded Systems	125	Up 60 places+60	£60,000	+9.09%	85 1.10%	26
Robotics	138	Down 61 places-61	£60,000	+4.34%	70 0.91%	26
Social Media	139	Down 15 places-15	£45,000	+7.14%	69 0.89%	9
Smart Home	141	Up 38 places+38	£45,000	+38.46%	67 0.87%	6
Enterprise Software	142	Up 25 places+25	£57,500	+66.66%	66 0.85%	19
IoT	147	Up 36 places+36	£55,000	-38.88%	61 0.79%	20
Life Science	153	Down 7 places-7	£52,750	-21.85%	55 0.71%	7
Renewable Energy	164	Up 12 places+12	£55,000	-15.38%	44 0.57%	7
NHS	168	Up 10 places+10	£57,423	-13.32%	40 0.52%	13
Smartphone	170	New entry-	-	-	38 0.49%	1
CCTV	170	Up 14 places+14	£45,000	+25.00%	38 0.49%	10
Home Automation	171	Up 15 places+15	£35,000	-4.10%	37 0.48%	2
Mobile Games	172	New entry-	-	-	36 0.47%
Web Conferencing	173	Up 12 places+12	£30,500	-23.75%	35 0.45%	4
Mobile App	173	Up 19 places+19	£75,000	+27.65%	35 0.45%	3
FPGA	174	Up 22 places+22	£75,000	+7.91%	34 0.44%	7
Legacy Systems	175	Up 8 places+8	£63,750	+2.00%	33 0.43%	3
AI Agents	179	Up 2 places+2	£100,000	-20.00%	29 0.37%	10
Algorithms	179	Down 15 places-15	£90,000	+59.48%	29 0.37%	14
e-Learning	179	Up 4 places+4	£41,500	+29.68%	29 0.37%	3
FMCG	180	Down 20 places-20	£60,000	-	28 0.36%	7
Public Cloud	180	Up 14 places+14	£68,500	-11.61%	28 0.36%	1
Distributed Systems	181	Down 16 places-16	£61,250	-23.43%	27 0.35%	6
Learning Management System	182	Up 8 places+8	£55,000	-15.38%	26 0.34%	3
Cyber Threat	184	Up 10 places+10	£65,000	+4.00%	24 0.31%	7
SCADA	184	Down 1 place-1	£62,500	+4.16%	24 0.31%	12
Security Posture	185	Up 4 places+4	£65,000	-7.14%	23 0.30%	11
Hybrid Cloud	185	Up 5 places+5	£82,500	-2.94%	23 0.30%	7
Distributed Computing	185	New entry-	£65,000	-	23 0.30%	2
Marketing Technology	186	Up 10 places+10	£50,000	+66.66%	22 0.28%
Security Operations Centre	186	Down 4 places-4	£55,000	-15.38%	22 0.28%	4
Operational Technology	188	Down 17 places-17	£73,250	-	20 0.26%	22
Pharmacovigilance	188	Up 8 places+8	-	-	20 0.26%
Private Cloud	188	Up 7 places+7	£75,000	+7.14%	20 0.26%	1
Low-Code	188	Up 7 places+7	£50,000	-18.36%	20 0.26%	12
EPoS	188	No change0	£32,500	-7.14%	20 0.26%	1
Analytical Mindset	189	Down 89 places-89	£47,500	-15.17%	19 0.25%	2
Data Structures	189	Up 5 places+5	£75,000	+76.47%	19 0.25%	7
Analogue Electronics	190	New entry-	£55,000	-	18 0.23%	13
PKI	191	Down 2 places-2	£62,500	+31.57%	17 0.22%	2
VHDL	192	New entry-	£61,250	-	16 0.21%	5
Genomics	193	New entry-	£90,000	-	15 0.19%
Cyber Defence	193	Up 2 places+2	£63,750	-15.00%	15 0.19%	2