General & Transferable Skills Statistics in Wales

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Smartphone	5	New entry-	£31,519	-	381 11.14%	1
Mobile Games	6	New entry-	-	-	380 11.11%
Onboarding	27	Up 7 places+7	£35,000	-26.31%	190 5.56%	36
Cloud Native	65	Up 1 place+1	£69,973	-6.70%	86 2.52%	3
Driving Licence	87	Down 45 places-45	£40,000	+31.14%	57 1.67%	18
Self-Motivation	89	Down 46 places-46	£40,000	-16.87%	55 1.61%	14
Product Ownership	92	Down 31 places-31	£55,500	+1.02%	52 1.52%	10
Management Information System	98	Down 52 places-52	£35,981	-25.23%	46 1.35%	11
Legacy Systems	106	Down 61 places-61	£65,000	+18.18%	38 1.11%	5
Enterprise Software	113	Down 49 places-49	£62,000	+24.00%	31 0.91%	9
Distributed Systems	115	Down 49 places-49	£70,000	-1.93%	29 0.85%
Data Centre	116	Down 63 places-63	£90,000	+12.50%	28 0.82%	8
Mainframe	117	New entry-	£72,500	-	27 0.79%
Virtual Team	119	Down 66 places-66	£62,000	+12.72%	25 0.73%
Social Media	119	Down 49 places-49	£32,500	-31.57%	25 0.73%
Operational Technology	120	Down 61 places-61	£76,250	+30.34%	24 0.70%	2
Low-Code	121	Down 50 places-50	£60,000	-	23 0.67%
Smart Home	122	New entry-	-	-	22 0.64%	1
Industrial Internet of Things	124	New entry-	£50,000	-	20 0.59%
Smart City	124	Down 53 places-53	£25,500	-57.50%	20 0.59%	2
CCTV	126	New entry-	£25,500	-	18 0.53%	3
NHS	128	Down 57 places-57	£58,750	-	16 0.47%	13
Embedded Systems	129	Down 65 places-65	£62,500	-3.84%	15 0.44%	5
Graphic Design	131	New entry-	£32,500	-	13 0.38%
Mobile App	132	Down 64 places-64	£55,000	-8.33%	12 0.35%	11
Web Conferencing	132	Down 61 places-61	£29,311	-38.29%	12 0.35%
Security Posture	133	Down 65 places-65	£55,000	+1.38%	11 0.32%	3
Digital Wallet	134	New entry-	£80,000	-	10 0.29%
e-Learning	135	Down 71 places-71	£35,000	-	9 0.26%	2
SCADA	136	Down 73 places-73	£68,750	+71.87%	8 0.23%	3
Housing Association	136	New entry-	£60,000	-	8 0.23%	2
Hybrid Cloud	137	Down 86 places-86	£55,000	-	7 0.20%	2
Renewable Energy	137	Down 66 places-66	£80,000	+77.77%	7 0.20%
Cyber Threat	137	Down 73 places-73	£45,000	-10.00%	7 0.20%	11
Analogue Electronics	137	New entry-	£39,000	-	7 0.20%	9
EPoS	137	Down 70 places-70	£35,000	-	7 0.20%	1
Podcast	138	Down 68 places-68	£26,227	-16.07%	6 0.18%
AI Agents	138	New entry-	£85,000	-	6 0.18%	7
Data Protection Act	139	New entry-	-	-	5 0.15%
Blog	139	Down 68 places-68	£67,500	+42.10%	5 0.15%
Video Conferencing	139	Down 68 places-68	£25,000	-30.55%	5 0.15%	1
FMCG	139	Down 70 places-70	£53,500	-	5 0.15%	2
Security Operations Centre	140	Down 70 places-70	-	-	4 0.12%	4
CMDB	140	Down 71 places-71	£47,009	-16.05%	4 0.12%
Reference Data	140	New entry-	£74,500	-	4 0.12%
Cyber Defence	140	New entry-	£54,085	-	4 0.12%	2
PKI	140	New entry-	£45,000	-	4 0.12%
IoT	141	Down 81 places-81	£47,500	-7.76%	3 0.088%	2
Greenfield Project	141	New entry-	£75,000	-	3 0.088%	1
Photography	141	New entry-	£32,500	-	3 0.088%