General & Transferable Skills Statistics in the West Midlands

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 23 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Driving Licence	47	Up 27 places+27	£41,250	+3.12%	264 2.90%	128
Onboarding	50	Down 11 places-11	£37,500	-21.05%	236 2.59%	91
Self-Motivation	51	Up 38 places+38	£45,000	+30.43%	235 2.58%	105
Management Information System	80	Up 48 places+48	£43,000	+1.17%	163 1.79%	130
Social Media	118	Up 5 places+5	£43,000	+4.87%	102 1.12%	38
Data Centre	118	Down 20 places-20	£27,575	-63.23%	102 1.12%	42
Enterprise Software	126	Down 18 places-18	£60,000	-17.24%	94 1.03%	53
SCADA	126	Down 7 places-7	£55,500	+11.00%	94 1.03%	74
Cloud Native	133	Up 13 places+13	£75,000	+20.00%	85 0.93%	61
Robotics	140	Down 67 places-67	£57,500	-	76 0.83%	62
Embedded Systems	151	Up 11 places+11	£62,500	+13.63%	65 0.71%	31
Hybrid Cloud	155	No change0	£70,000	-12.50%	60 0.66%	25
Mobile Games	162	Up 7 places+7	-	-	53 0.58%	15
Renewable Energy	164	Down 29 places-29	£50,000	+25.00%	51 0.56%	31
Smartphone	166	Up 2 places+2	£56,400	-	49 0.54%	2
Greenfield Project	166	Down 5 places-5	£55,000	-6.38%	49 0.54%	13
Operational Technology	166	Down 37 places-37	£56,400	+18.73%	49 0.54%	61
Product Ownership	168	Down 75 places-75	£57,500	-4.16%	47 0.52%	82
IoT	169	Down 9 places-9	£63,750	+24.39%	46 0.50%	48
NHS	169	Down 23 places-23	£40,000	-20.00%	46 0.50%	43
Online Gambling	169	New entry-	£80,000	-	46 0.50%	13
Legacy Systems	173	Down 53 places-53	£62,500	-3.84%	42 0.46%	19
FMCG	176	Down 52 places-52	£50,000	+25.00%	39 0.43%	23
CCTV	179	Down 17 places-17	£40,000	+15.94%	36 0.40%	42
Virtual Team	180	Down 19 places-19	£52,500	-22.22%	35 0.38%	22
Mobile App	181	Down 25 places-25	£50,000	+8.10%	34 0.37%	25
PMI	181	Down 12 places-12	£60,000	-	34 0.37%	5
Housing Association	184	Down 22 places-22	£35,000	-32.95%	31 0.34%	10
Analytical Mindset	185	Down 42 places-42	£45,000	+23.28%	30 0.33%	18
Security Posture	185	Down 48 places-48	£55,000	+6.79%	30 0.33%	23
Distributed Systems	187	Down 27 places-27	£82,500	+10.00%	28 0.31%	23
e-Learning	188	Down 26 places-26	£39,197	-42.77%	27 0.30%	10
Marketing Technology	188	Down 20 places-20	£80,000	-11.11%	27 0.30%	11
Web Conferencing	189	Down 32 places-32	£37,500	+7.14%	26 0.29%	19
Legacy Applications	189	Down 23 places-23	£60,000	-11.11%	26 0.29%	4
Data Structures	191	Down 35 places-35	£56,250	+7.14%	24 0.26%	27
Mainframe	192	Down 26 places-26	-	-	23 0.25%	2
Virtual Reality	195	New entry-	£42,215	-	20 0.22%	1
Taxonomies	197	Down 32 places-32	£70,000	+55.55%	18 0.20%	4
Educational Technology	197	New entry-	£40,000	-	18 0.20%	9
Algorithms	197	Down 37 places-37	£67,500	+17.39%	18 0.20%	35
AI Agents	199	Down 38 places-38	£87,500	+59.09%	16 0.18%	47
Graphic Design	199	Down 35 places-35	£35,000	-9.67%	16 0.18%	6
CAN bus	201	New entry-	£50,000	-	14 0.15%	6
Data Protection Act	201	Down 41 places-41	£51,356	-8.70%	14 0.15%	3
CMDB	201	Down 32 places-32	£72,500	-19.44%	14 0.15%	10
Digital Media	201	Down 35 places-35	£43,000	+10.25%	14 0.15%	1
Public Cloud	202	Down 43 places-43	£65,000	-3.70%	13 0.14%	14
Security Operations Centre	202	Down 40 places-40	£71,250	+42.50%	13 0.14%	4
Client/Server	203	Down 34 places-34	£38,000	-47.40%	12 0.13%	6