General & Transferable Skills Statistics in West Sussex

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Data Centre	25	Up 2 places+2	£70,000	+81.81%	32 4.98%	4
Self-Motivation	40	Down -14 places-14	£55,000	+41.02%	15 2.33%	7
Management Information System	40	Down -14 places-14	£26,000	-6.99%	15 2.33%
Product Ownership	40	Down -16 places-16	£65,000	-21.21%	15 2.33%	5
Cyberattack	40	Down -6 places-6	-	-	15 2.33%
Driving Licence	42	Down -31 places-31	£32,500	-35.00%	13 2.02%	7
Social Media	43	Down -12 places-12	£30,000	-54.71%	12 1.87%	1
Analytical Mindset	43	Down -12 places-12	£50,000	-21.56%	12 1.87%
Life Science	46	Down -15 places-15	£45,000	+28.57%	9 1.40%	4
Cloud Native	49	Down -23 places-23	£70,000	+16.66%	6 0.93%	2
e-Learning	50	Down -24 places-24	£70,000	-	5 0.78%
Clustering	51	New entry-	£66,250	-	4 0.62%	1
Greenfield Project	51	New entry-	£67,500	-	4 0.62%	2
Embedded Systems	52	Down -21 places-21	£30,000	-42.85%	3 0.47%	3
Onboarding	52	Down -18 places-18	£61,500	-12.14%	3 0.47%	4
Web Conferencing	52	New entry-	£30,000	-	3 0.47%
Over-the-Top Content	53	New entry-	£57,500	-	2 0.31%	1
Augmented Reality	53	New entry-	£75,900	-	2 0.31%
Hackathon	53	New entry-	£15,600	-	2 0.31%	3
Acoustics	53	New entry-	£75,900	-	2 0.31%
Fibre Optics	54	New entry-	£34,000	-	1 0.16%	1
Digital Media	54	Down -31 places-31	£27,500	-	1 0.16%
Housing Association	54	New entry-	-	-	1 0.16%
Cyber Defence	54	New entry-	£75,000	-	1 0.16%	1
Distributed Systems	54	Down -20 places-20	£70,000	-6.66%	1 0.16%	1
Marketing Technology	54	New entry-	-	-	1 0.16%
Security Posture	54	New entry-	£75,000	-	1 0.16%	2