Remote IT Employment Market Trends Analysis

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Product Ownership	70	Up 23 places+23	£65,000	-5.10%	801 3.57%	470
Cloud Native	72	Up 151 places+151	£75,000	-	782 3.49%	712
Onboarding	87	Up 34 places+34	£45,000	-10.00%	662 2.95%	723
Smartphone	90	Up 341 places+341	£65,000	+13.04%	650 2.90%	63
Mobile Games	91	Up 326 places+326	-	-	643 2.87%	49
Self-Motivation	117	Down -18 places-18	£45,000	+1.79%	533 2.38%	360
Social Media	133	Up 51 places+51	£45,000	+16.12%	472 2.10%	167
Management Information System	159	Down -47 places-47	£55,000	+14.29%	392 1.75%	455
Driving Licence	163	Up 66 places+66	£42,500	-10.07%	374 1.67%	226
Virtual Team	183	Up 104 places+104	£70,000	+21.73%	330 1.47%	240
Distributed Systems	194	Up 127 places+127	£80,000	+3.22%	309 1.38%	400
Data Centre	209	Down -28 places-28	£67,500	+12.50%	284 1.27%	253
Enterprise Software	211	Down -58 places-58	£60,000	-4.89%	280 1.25%	376
Greenfield Project	220	Up 110 places+110	£60,000	-11.11%	265 1.18%	144
Web Conferencing	233	Up 162 places+162	£40,000	+10.34%	244 1.09%	76
AI Agents	235	Up 179 places+179	£92,500	-15.90%	241 1.07%	466
Cyber Threat	247	Up 124 places+124	£75,000	+1.69%	225 1.00%	95
Security Posture	260	Up 79 places+79	£65,000	+13.04%	205 0.91%	196
Legacy Systems	261	Up 72 places+72	£62,500	-	204 0.91%	134
Mobile App	271	Up 25 places+25	£64,000	-1.53%	191 0.85%	136
Podcast	278	Up 145 places+145	£32,500	-58.06%	181 0.81%	19
Data Structures	289	Up 46 places+46	£70,000	-	168 0.75%	167
Public Cloud	290	Up 52 places+52	£80,000	-	167 0.74%	116
Blog	292	Up 78 places+78	£47,250	+45.38%	165 0.74%	215
Algorithms	299	Down -82 places-82	£59,000	-15.71%	155 0.69%	234
Marketing Technology	299	Up 39 places+39	£80,000	+60.00%	155 0.69%	81
Analytical Mindset	308	Down -4 places-4	£50,000	-	145 0.65%	122
Over-the-Top Content	320	Up 107 places+107	-	-	133 0.59%	12
IoT	327	Up 14 places+14	£67,500	+16.37%	126 0.56%	169
NHS	336	Down -68 places-68	£55,000	+4.76%	117 0.52%	197
Hybrid Cloud	339	Up 12 places+12	£70,000	-12.50%	113 0.50%	145
Low-Code	344	Up 57 places+57	£52,500	-12.50%	108 0.48%	76
Video\Live Streaming	350	Up 76 places+76	£71,250	-35.22%	101 0.45%	18
e-Learning	353	Down -97 places-97	£35,000	-12.50%	98 0.44%	120
Cyberattack	364	Down -298 places-298	£59,500	-4.80%	87 0.39%	19
Embedded Systems	365	Down -10 places-10	£67,500	+35.00%	86 0.38%	93
Life Science	373	Up 6 places+6	£56,500	-9.60%	78 0.35%	228
Fixed Income	374	Down -199 places-199	£135,000	+5.88%	77 0.34%	53
Replication	383	Up 22 places+22	£60,000	+2.72%	68 0.30%	54
PKI	384	Up 19 places+19	£55,000	-4.34%	67 0.30%	38
Client/Server	384	Up 31 places+31	£55,000	+10.00%	67 0.30%	21
Foreign Exchange (FX)	390	Down -188 places-188	£57,000	-55.29%	61 0.27%	109
Educational Technology	391	Up 4 places+4	£50,000	-9.09%	60 0.27%	45
Cyber Defence	391	Up 34 places+34	£80,000	+6.66%	60 0.27%	70
Hedge funds	395	Down -136 places-136	£130,000	+13.04%	56 0.25%	40
FPGA	396	Down -35 places-35	£62,500	-	55 0.25%	69
Distributed Architecture	397	Up 25 places+25	£115,000	+64.28%	54 0.24%	35
Private Cloud	397	Down -18 places-18	£75,000	-	54 0.24%	47
Robotics	398	Down -292 places-292	£65,000	-56.66%	53 0.24%	78
Clustering	399	Up 6 places+6	£50,000	-16.66%	52 0.23%	19