General & Transferable Skills Statistics

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Onboarding	48	Up 29 places+29	£44,000	+10.00%	3,576 2.93%	759
Driving Licence	58	Up 5 places+5	£40,000	+11.11%	3,251 2.66%	814
Self-Motivation	79	Up 5 places+5	£41,000	+9.33%	2,543 2.08%	441
Cloud Native	83	Up 48 places+48	£80,000	-	2,500 2.05%	418
Data Centre	104	Up 56 places+56	£70,000	+12.00%	2,137 1.75%	302
Management Information System	106	Up 4 places+4	£46,772	-6.45%	2,092 1.71%	695
Product Ownership	136	Down 23 places-23	£65,000	-	1,633 1.34%	391
Smartphone	171	Up 454 places+454	£30,000	-2.89%	1,355 1.11%	15
Mobile Games	185	Up 479 places+479	£60,000	-33.33%	1,256 1.03%
Enterprise Software	199	Down 5 places-5	£70,000	+3.70%	1,177 0.96%	286
AI Agents	217	Up 339 places+339	£95,000	+18.75%	1,066 0.87%	308
Social Media	241	Down 82 places-82	£37,500	-2.15%	942 0.77%	177
Robotics	242	Down 87 places-87	£57,500	+4.54%	940 0.77%	343
Distributed Systems	251	Up 81 places+81	£80,000	-11.11%	897 0.73%	177
Renewable Energy	316	Up 55 places+55	£47,500	+12.42%	692 0.57%	92
NHS	318	Up 7 places+7	£52,500	-10.01%	688 0.56%	234
SCADA	319	Up 126 places+126	£55,000	-	686 0.56%	253
Legacy Systems	330	Down 71 places-71	£68,500	+5.38%	665 0.54%	99
Security Posture	340	Up 63 places+63	£70,000	-	650 0.53%	172
FMCG	343	Down 6 places-6	£51,500	+24.09%	641 0.53%	109
CCTV	362	Up 86 places+86	£42,000	+16.66%	601 0.49%	224
IoT	368	Up 63 places+63	£55,000	-	579 0.47%	152
Mobile App	372	No change0	£60,000	-4.43%	568 0.47%	113
Embedded Systems	373	Up 137 places+137	£62,500	+13.63%	566 0.46%	225
Greenfield Project	375	Up 32 places+32	£65,000	-11.86%	562 0.46%	64
Cyber Threat	388	Up 124 places+124	£65,000	+1.16%	547 0.45%	179
Algorithms	390	Down 163 places-163	£67,500	-4.39%	542 0.44%	208
Virtual Team	411	Down 21 places-21	£70,000	+7.69%	503 0.41%	68
Operational Technology	413	Down 49 places-49	£67,500	+18.00%	501 0.41%	197
Marketing Technology	414	Up 195 places+195	£55,000	-9.83%	499 0.41%	71
Blog	437	Up 71 places+71	£45,628	+40.39%	459 0.38%	51
Web Conferencing	439	Up 65 places+65	£36,000	-10.00%	454 0.37%	60
Life Science	441	Up 28 places+28	£70,000	+12.00%	448 0.37%	59
Public Cloud	450	Down 25 places-25	£78,319	+1.05%	430 0.35%	69
Hybrid Cloud	455	Down 117 places-117	£70,000	-3.44%	425 0.35%	76
Data Structures	473	Down 105 places-105	£65,000	-7.14%	394 0.32%	100
Analytical Mindset	476	Down 237 places-237	£50,000	-	390 0.32%	83
FPGA	492	Up 41 places+41	£70,000	+12.00%	363 0.30%	212
Low-Code	537	Down 2 places-2	£57,500	-11.53%	308 0.25%	66
e-Learning	547	Down 230 places-230	£39,197	+5.93%	297 0.24%	56
Security Operations Centre	588	Down 28 places-28	£62,500	-3.84%	248 0.20%	52
Hedge funds	589	Down 149 places-149	£123,750	+12.50%	247 0.20%	9
Replication	602	Down 33 places-33	£55,000	-8.33%	233 0.19%	48
Podcast	610	Up 26 places+26	£31,500	+5.00%	225 0.18%	5
Analogue Electronics	625	Up 20 places+20	£55,000	+10.00%	210 0.17%	183
Private Cloud	629	Down 69 places-69	£75,000	-3.22%	206 0.17%	44
Smart Home	629	Down 39 places-39	£45,000	-	206 0.17%	34
Foreign Exchange (FX)	630	Down 269 places-269	£82,500	-34.00%	205 0.17%	26
Video Conferencing	632	Down 128 places-128	£38,500	-	203 0.17%	79
EPoS	633	Down 103 places-103	£31,000	+0.71%	202 0.17%	38