General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	74	Down -27 places-27	£36,500	+1.38%	1,603 2.13%	909
Onboarding	83	Up 61 places+61	£40,000	+6.66%	1,442 1.92%	856
Self-Motivation	87	Up 9 places+9	£41,801	+11.46%	1,362 1.81%	780
Cloud Native	128	Up 120 places+120	£72,500	+3.57%	1,046 1.39%	704
Data Centre	143	Up 48 places+48	£60,000	+9.09%	916 1.22%	427
Cyberattack	145	Down -66 places-66	£30,000	-50.00%	899 1.20%	58
Product Ownership	161	Down -27 places-27	£60,000	-7.69%	840 1.12%	482
Management Information System	175	Down -42 places-42	£47,386	-0.24%	784 1.04%	785
Smartphone	205	Up 311 places+311	£32,500	-21.68%	677 0.90%	88
Mobile Games	215	Up 340 places+340	-	-	641 0.85%	52
Social Media	229	Down -115 places-115	£39,000	+1.76%	588 0.78%	267
Legacy Systems	268	Up 65 places+65	£60,000	-	476 0.63%	153
Enterprise Software	275	Down -53 places-53	£60,000	-5.20%	458 0.61%	338
Mobile App	286	Up 54 places+54	£59,750	+13.80%	431 0.57%	223
NHS	295	Up 57 places+57	£57,423	+20.88%	418 0.56%	521
Greenfield Project	303	Up 85 places+85	£60,000	-	398 0.53%	112
Analytical Mindset	306	Down -15 places-15	£45,000	-10.00%	393 0.52%	151
Algorithms	315	Down -98 places-98	£60,000	-	378 0.50%	310
Embedded Systems	327	Up 80 places+80	£60,000	+20.00%	357 0.48%	240
IoT	354	Up 29 places+29	£55,000	-5.17%	313 0.42%	214
Security Posture	356	Up 33 places+33	£57,500	+9.52%	311 0.41%	193
FMCG	356	Down -88 places-88	£40,000	-3.61%	311 0.41%	173
Distributed Systems	357	Up 49 places+49	£72,500	-4.91%	310 0.41%	279
Virtual Team	359	Up 7 places+7	£70,000	+21.73%	307 0.41%	143
Web Conferencing	375	Up 84 places+84	£36,000	-4.00%	284 0.38%	91
Robotics	377	Down -246 places-246	£60,000	+9.09%	282 0.38%	229
Renewable Energy	384	Down -97 places-97	£51,500	+14.44%	272 0.36%	141
Hybrid Cloud	386	Down -55 places-55	£62,500	-3.84%	270 0.36%	154
Cyber Threat	388	Up 53 places+53	£65,000	+10.16%	267 0.36%	225
CCTV	411	Up 38 places+38	£40,250	+11.80%	238 0.32%	239
Life Science	425	Up 3 places+3	£56,500	+50.66%	221 0.29%	165
EPoS	435	Up 30 places+30	£30,000	+25.00%	210 0.28%	55
AI Agents	436	Up 82 places+82	£75,000	-1.63%	209 0.28%	358
Marketing Technology	450	Up 24 places+24	£100,000	+42.85%	192 0.26%	62
Data Structures	450	Down -79 places-79	£55,500	+7.24%	192 0.26%	164
Operational Technology	467	Down -200 places-200	£60,000	-7.69%	174 0.23%	161
SCADA	468	Down -129 places-129	£55,000	-	173 0.23%	181
Replication	469	Down -7 places-7	£50,000	-3.84%	171 0.23%	61
Podcast	474	Up 71 places+71	£33,000	-37.44%	166 0.22%	8
Security Operations Centre	482	Down -11 places-11	£55,000	-	157 0.21%	58
FPGA	482	Down -46 places-46	£70,000	+9.80%	157 0.21%	177
Public Cloud	489	Down -91 places-91	£80,000	+6.85%	149 0.20%	141
e-Learning	492	Down -190 places-190	£39,197	-2.00%	146 0.19%	70
Low-Code	494	Up 21 places+21	£55,000	-15.38%	144 0.19%	88
PKI	501	Down -30 places-30	£56,500	+2.72%	137 0.18%	62
Smart Home	507	Up 20 places+20	£45,000	+19.20%	131 0.17%	40
Educational Technology	513	Up 23 places+23	£50,000	-23.07%	123 0.16%	41
Blog	526	Down -37 places-37	£43,750	+34.61%	110 0.15%	118
Cyber Defence	532	Down -7 places-7	£57,500	-5.34%	104 0.14%	97
Clustering	537	Down -77 places-77	£50,000	-2.91%	99 0.13%	23