General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the UK excluding London

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	44	Up 1 place+1	£40,000	+14.28%	2,862 3.16%	930
Onboarding	54	Up 23 places+23	£40,000	+14.28%	2,443 2.70%	678
Self-Motivation	76	Down 6 places-6	£40,000	+14.28%	2,002 2.21%	476
Management Information System	96	Up 26 places+26	£42,500	+1.61%	1,512 1.67%	861
Smartphone	114	Up 387 places+387	£30,000	+14.72%	1,314 1.45%	41
Cloud Native	124	Up 63 places+63	£75,000	+7.14%	1,236 1.37%	496
Mobile Games	125	Up 406 places+406	-	-	1,220 1.35%	9
Data Centre	139	Up 29 places+29	£60,781	+10.51%	1,116 1.23%	357
Robotics	193	Down 85 places-85	£55,500	+0.90%	829 0.92%	382
Product Ownership	198	Down 59 places-59	£60,000	-1.63%	808 0.89%	472
Social Media	228	Down 69 places-69	£35,000	-9.67%	706 0.78%	196
Enterprise Software	234	Down 26 places-26	£62,500	-0.93%	673 0.74%	313
Renewable Energy	245	Up 26 places+26	£45,000	+12.50%	636 0.70%	90
SCADA	252	Up 101 places+101	£55,000	+7.84%	620 0.68%	258
FMCG	272	Down 17 places-17	£50,970	+27.42%	554 0.61%	99
Embedded Systems	276	Up 107 places+107	£65,000	+18.18%	540 0.60%	238
NHS	290	Up 23 places+23	£52,000	+30.23%	491 0.54%	219
IoT	297	Up 36 places+36	£55,000	-	470 0.52%	178
Legacy Systems	307	Down 39 places-39	£62,500	-	452 0.50%	120
CCTV	312	Up 87 places+87	£40,000	+14.28%	441 0.49%	228
Cyber Threat	335	Up 90 places+90	£65,000	+10.16%	400 0.44%	231
Mobile App	343	Up 21 places+21	£57,500	+12.74%	390 0.43%	201
Algorithms	351	Down 93 places-93	£65,000	+18.18%	378 0.42%	299
Greenfield Project	354	Up 44 places+44	£60,000	+9.09%	374 0.41%	108
AI Agents	356	Up 111 places+111	£87,500	+16.66%	372 0.41%	368
Distributed Systems	364	Up 25 places+25	£73,750	-1.66%	361 0.40%	212
Security Posture	364	Up 11 places+11	£59,490	+15.51%	361 0.40%	198
Operational Technology	365	Down 121 places-121	£65,000	+18.18%	360 0.40%	315
FPGA	367	Up 66 places+66	£70,000	+3.70%	358 0.40%	284
Marketing Technology	386	Up 125 places+125	£50,000	-28.57%	319 0.35%	64
Web Conferencing	388	Up 45 places+45	£31,500	-18.00%	314 0.35%	109
Hybrid Cloud	398	Down 32 places-32	£65,000	+4.41%	303 0.33%	101
Life Science	402	Down 16 places-16	£55,000	+29.41%	297 0.33%	156
Virtual Team	422	Down 32 places-32	£62,000	+12.72%	266 0.29%	97
Analytical Mindset	430	Down 224 places-224	£45,000	-5.26%	258 0.29%	96
Data Structures	460	Down 68 places-68	£60,000	+14.28%	214 0.24%	158
Blog	466	Down 30 places-30	£35,000	+12.17%	207 0.23%	59
Analogue Electronics	468	Up 39 places+39	£55,000	+17.64%	205 0.23%	175
Public Cloud	480	Down 54 places-54	£85,000	+13.33%	191 0.21%	96
Security Operations Centre	484	Down 50 places-50	£56,250	-13.46%	187 0.21%	80
Podcast	484	Up 32 places+32	£31,500	+0.80%	187 0.21%	12
e-Learning	496	Down 230 places-230	£39,197	+15.28%	175 0.19%	55
Smart Home	501	Down 7 places-7	£45,000	+23.28%	169 0.19%	17
Low-Code	503	Down 34 places-34	£55,000	-8.33%	167 0.18%	152
Private Cloud	517	Down 41 places-41	£75,000	+5.26%	153 0.17%	52
EPoS	517	Down 107 places-107	£30,000	-	153 0.17%	58
Replication	521	Down 66 places-66	£50,000	-16.66%	149 0.16%	41
Online Gambling	533	Down 2 places-2	£85,000	-	137 0.15%	34
Housing Association	543	Down 22 places-22	£42,500	-18.58%	127 0.14%	23
PMI	547	Down 33 places-33	£55,000	+32.53%	123 0.14%	29