Real-Time IT Job Market Trends & Actionable Insights

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Aviation	392	Up 89 places+89	£65,000	+30.00%	480 0.45%	133
Service Design	393	Up 108 places+108	£65,000	+8.33%	479 0.45%	159
Configuration Management	394	Down -53 places-53	£60,000	-14.28%	478 0.45%	217
Go	395	Down -231 places-231	£80,000	-8.57%	474 0.44%	97
Data Security	396	Down -112 places-112	£65,000	-	472 0.44%	109
Senior Data Engineer	397	Up 81 places+81	£75,000	+7.14%	469 0.44%	64
Operations Manager	397	Up 45 places+45	£62,500	-3.84%	469 0.44%	107
Dashboard Development	398	Up 40 places+40	£55,000	+3.77%	468 0.44%	251
HP	399	Up 69 places+69	£42,500	+8.97%	467 0.43%	72
Metadata	399	Down -2 places-2	£70,000	+7.69%	467 0.43%	160
Performance Metrics	400	Down -41 places-41	£55,000	+4.76%	465 0.43%	189
Data Lake	401	Down -145 places-145	£77,500	-	464 0.43%	114
Cost Optimisation	402	Up 86 places+86	£80,000	+23.07%	461 0.43%	162
People Management	403	Down -108 places-108	£60,000	-14.28%	460 0.43%	273
Apple iOS	404	Down -45 places-45	£57,500	+21.05%	457 0.43%	95
Software Manager	405	Up 146 places+146	£88,750	+10.93%	455 0.42%	49
Java Engineer	406	Down -135 places-135	£78,000	-29.09%	453 0.42%	65
Deployment Automation	407	Up 75 places+75	£70,000	+7.69%	451 0.42%	132
Microsoft PowerPoint	408	Down -136 places-136	£40,258	-10.53%	448 0.42%	363
Financial Institution	409	Down -54 places-54	£82,500	-0.60%	447 0.42%	115
Quality Management	410	Down -4 places-4	£45,000	-26.53%	445 0.41%	207
GitHub Actions	411	Up 56 places+56	£65,000	-10.34%	444 0.41%	157
Robotics	412	Down -239 places-239	£60,000	+9.09%	439 0.41%	221
Runbook	413	Up 182 places+182	£65,000	-7.14%	438 0.41%	131
IoT	413	Up 54 places+54	£55,500	-7.50%	438 0.41%	178
Cyber Threat	414	Up 92 places+92	£70,000	+7.69%	437 0.41%	174
Problem Management	415	Down -34 places-34	£50,000	-3.38%	436 0.41%	97
HubSpot	416	Up 129 places+129	£45,000	-	431 0.40%	160
Finance Manager	417	Up 166 places+166	£67,500	-10.00%	430 0.40%	58
Senior Infrastructure Engineer	418	Up 116 places+116	£60,000	-4.00%	429 0.40%	57
Community of Practice	419	Down -98 places-98	£68,566	+9.70%	428 0.40%	74
Open Source	420	Up 6 places+6	£80,000	+9.58%	427 0.40%	143
Client Onboarding	421	Up 25 places+25	£42,500	+6.25%	425 0.40%	211
Software Architecture	421	Up 78 places+78	£72,500	+7.77%	425 0.40%	140
IT Support Analyst	421	Down -86 places-86	£32,500	+2.51%	425 0.40%	31
Splunk	422	Down -148 places-148	£70,000	+7.69%	424 0.39%	258
Vulnerability Remediation	422	Up 169 places+169	£56,000	-15.62%	424 0.39%	109
Data Structures	422	Down -56 places-56	£67,500	-3.57%	424 0.39%	142
Change Control	423	Down -2 places-2	£60,000	+17.64%	420 0.39%	285
Programme Management	424	Down -116 places-116	£75,000	+15.38%	417 0.39%	230
Continuous Integration	424	Down -96 places-96	£66,874	-1.11%	417 0.39%	119
RBAC	425	Up 137 places+137	£71,500	-6.22%	416 0.39%	117
VoIP	425	Down -81 places-81	£34,000	+4.61%	416 0.39%	69
Web Conferencing	425	Up 97 places+97	£37,500	-3.84%	416 0.39%	112
Embedded Systems	425	Up 81 places+81	£60,000	+9.09%	416 0.39%	183
Python Developer	426	Down -18 places-18	£70,000	-17.64%	415 0.39%	46
Grafana	426	Down -43 places-43	£70,000	-3.44%	415 0.39%	105
HNC	427	Down -73 places-73	£43,000	-8.51%	414 0.39%	404
Palo Alto	428	Up 78 places+78	£70,000	+9.80%	413 0.38%	77
Technologist	428	Up 179 places+179	£37,750	+7.85%	413 0.38%	41