General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the West Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	46	Up 29 places+29	£40,000	+2.56%	236 2.65%	193
Self-Motivation	50	Up 43 places+43	£45,000	+20.00%	219 2.46%	125
Onboarding	52	Down -13 places-13	£37,750	-20.52%	215 2.41%	159
Management Information System	85	Up 42 places+42	£44,543	-1.01%	141 1.58%	201
Enterprise Software	115	Down -4 places-4	£60,000	-17.24%	100 1.12%	85
Social Media	119	Down -19 places-19	£43,000	+11.79%	96 1.08%	43
Data Centre	131	Down -30 places-30	£45,000	-40.00%	83 0.93%	88
SCADA	135	Down -20 places-20	£56,175	+12.35%	79 0.89%	78
Cloud Native	138	Up 6 places+6	£75,000	+20.00%	76 0.85%	70
Robotics	142	Down -71 places-71	£57,500	-	71 0.80%	60
Hybrid Cloud	157	Up 1 place+1	£70,000	-12.50%	56 0.63%	28
Mobile Games	157	Up 14 places+14	-	-	56 0.63%	19
Embedded Systems	159	Up 5 places+5	£55,000	-	54 0.61%	23
Greenfield Project	159	Up 3 places+3	£55,000	-8.33%	54 0.61%	8
Renewable Energy	160	Down -24 places-24	£50,000	+25.00%	53 0.59%	51
Product Ownership	162	Down -66 places-66	£57,500	-4.16%	51 0.57%	84
Smartphone	163	Up 7 places+7	£56,400	-	50 0.56%	7
NHS	166	Down -21 places-21	£40,000	-11.11%	47 0.53%	120
Legacy Systems	168	Down -48 places-48	£62,500	-3.84%	45 0.50%	25
Operational Technology	172	Down -44 places-44	£56,400	+18.73%	41 0.46%	55
Virtual Team	174	Down -11 places-11	£52,500	-22.22%	39 0.44%	23
Mobile App	175	Down -18 places-18	£50,000	+5.26%	38 0.43%	23
PMI	176	New entry-	£60,000	-	37 0.41%	5
Online Gambling	180	New entry-	£80,000	-	33 0.37%	25
FMCG	180	Down -54 places-54	£50,000	+25.00%	33 0.37%	32
Analytical Mindset	180	Down -35 places-35	£45,000	+23.28%	33 0.37%	21
IoT	181	Down -19 places-19	£59,250	+5.77%	32 0.36%	47
CCTV	181	Down -18 places-18	£40,000	+15.94%	32 0.36%	40
Housing Association	181	Down -17 places-17	£35,000	-32.95%	32 0.36%	16
Virtual Reality	186	New entry-	£42,215	-	27 0.30%	7
Security Posture	186	Down -45 places-45	£61,000	+19.60%	27 0.30%	15
Distributed Systems	188	Down -25 places-25	£82,500	+10.00%	25 0.28%	29
Data Structures	189	Down -31 places-31	£60,000	+14.28%	24 0.27%	37
Legacy Applications	190	Down -23 places-23	£60,000	-7.69%	23 0.26%	6
e-Learning	191	Down -27 places-27	£35,000	-48.90%	22 0.25%	15
Marketing Technology	192	Down -22 places-22	£80,000	-11.11%	21 0.24%	6
Web Conferencing	193	Down -33 places-33	£37,500	+7.14%	20 0.22%	27
Cyberattack	193	Down -25 places-25	£70,000	-	20 0.22%	3
Mainframe	195	Down -27 places-27	-	-	18 0.20%
Digital Media	197	Down -27 places-27	£43,000	+24.63%	16 0.18%	3
Algorithms	197	Down -34 places-34	£67,500	+22.72%	16 0.18%	47
Taxonomies	198	Down -32 places-32	£70,000	+55.55%	15 0.17%	6
Public Cloud	199	Down -37 places-37	£65,000	-3.70%	14 0.16%	15
AI Agents	199	Down -36 places-36	£87,500	+59.09%	14 0.16%	52
CMDB	199	Down -28 places-28	£70,000	-22.22%	14 0.16%	8
Educational Technology	199	New entry-	£40,000	-	14 0.16%	12
Security Operations Centre	200	Down -36 places-36	£71,250	+42.50%	13 0.15%	5
Data Protection Act	200	Down -38 places-38	£51,356	-8.70%	13 0.15%	16
Linux Command Line	201	Down -44 places-44	£47,500	+21.79%	12 0.13%	6
Client/Server	201	Down -30 places-30	£37,000	-48.78%	12 0.13%	7