Driving Licence Job Trends in the Midlands

Drivers' Licence
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Driving Licence in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Driving Licence over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 21 101
Rank change year-on-year -18 +80 +7
Permanent jobs citing Driving Licence 525 430 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.36% 7.76% 2.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.49% 18.70% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 376 196 50
10th Percentile £27,016 £25,500 £25,625
25th Percentile £30,938 £27,000 £27,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £31,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -4.62% +17.07%
75th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £44,375
90th Percentile £57,500 £57,750 £62,300
England median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.17% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

Driving Licence falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,623 2,299 2,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.17% 41.47% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,271 1,150 1,045
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,988 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -16.67% +2.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,090 £78,268
England median annual salary £56,400 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.55% -8.33% -4.00%

Driving Licence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Driving Licence relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Driving Licence job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Driving Licence
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Driving Licence.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Driving Licence

Driving Licence
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Driving Licence in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Driving Licence in the Midlands

Driving Licence
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Driving Licence within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands -18 285 £37,500 +25.00% 136
West Midlands +25 240 £40,000 +1.27% 192
Driving Licence
England

Driving Licence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 20 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.57%) IIS
4 2 (0.38%) ArchestrA
4 2 (0.38%) CMS
Applications
1 57 (10.86%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.71%) AutoCAD
3 9 (1.71%) EPLAN
4 8 (1.52%) Simulink
5 6 (1.14%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.38%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.38%) CapCut
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.19%) CorelDRAW
8 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.19%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (1.90%) Sonata
2 7 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.38%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.38%) Infor LN
4 2 (0.38%) MFGPRO
4 2 (0.38%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.19%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 111 (21.14%) Microsoft 365
2 54 (10.29%) Azure
3 44 (8.38%) Entra ID
4 23 (4.38%) Google Workspace
5 18 (3.43%) AWS
6 9 (1.71%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (1.52%) OneDrive
8 6 (1.14%) Copilot Studio
8 6 (1.14%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.14%) SaaS
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.57%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.19%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.19%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.43%) Wireless
2 32 (6.10%) Firewall
3 22 (4.19%) DHCP
3 22 (4.19%) DNS
4 15 (2.86%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.86%) VPN
5 13 (2.48%) VLAN
5 13 (2.48%) WAN
6 11 (2.10%) Broadband
6 11 (2.10%) IP Telephony
6 11 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (1.90%) Ethernet
8 9 (1.71%) Profibus
9 8 (1.52%) Internet
9 8 (1.52%) LAN
10 7 (1.33%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.33%) Structured Cabling
11 6 (1.14%) VoIP
12 3 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.57%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.71%) Power BI
1 9 (1.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.19%) MySQL
3 1 (0.19%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 8 (1.52%) JIRA
2 3 (0.57%) Hudson
3 2 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.19%) LabVIEW
General
1 256 (48.76%) Social Skills
2 83 (15.81%) Finance
3 61 (11.62%) Manufacturing
4 58 (11.05%) Telecoms
5 54 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (9.33%) Law
7 46 (8.76%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (7.62%) Military
9 37 (7.05%) Back Office
10 29 (5.52%) Marketing
11 24 (4.57%) Automotive
12 22 (4.19%) Aerospace
13 18 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (3.43%) Retail
14 16 (3.05%) Legal
15 12 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.71%) Public Sector
17 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (15.24%) IT Support
2 75 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 59 (11.24%) Business Development Manager
3 59 (11.24%) Business Manager
3 59 (11.24%) Development Manager
4 55 (10.48%) IT Engineer
5 47 (8.95%) Project Manager
6 46 (8.76%) IT Support Engineer
7 32 (6.10%) IT Technician
8 30 (5.71%) Support Technician
8 30 (5.71%) Technical Engineer
9 26 (4.95%) Technical Support
10 25 (4.76%) Technical Support Engineer
11 23 (4.38%) IT Support Technician
12 20 (3.81%) Coordinator
12 20 (3.81%) Field Engineer
13 19 (3.62%) Systems Engineer
14 17 (3.24%) Network Engineer
15 16 (3.05%) Lead
16 14 (2.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.52%) Terraform
2 7 (1.33%) STL
3 3 (0.57%) JSON
4 2 (0.38%) RESTEasy
5 1 (0.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (11.81%) Self-Motivation
2 39 (7.43%) CCTV
3 22 (4.19%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.24%) SCADA
5 14 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.67%) NHS
6 11 (2.10%) Robotics
7 8 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (1.33%) CAN bus
8 7 (1.33%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.95%) Life Science
10 5 (0.95%) Social Media
11 4 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.57%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.57%) iPhone
12 3 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (18.86%) Windows
2 36 (6.86%) Windows Server
3 25 (4.76%) Linux
4 13 (2.48%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.33%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.14%) Android
7 4 (0.76%) macOS
8 3 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.19%) Windows NT
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
2 119 (22.67%) Customer Service
3 68 (12.95%) CRM
4 65 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 63 (12.00%) Business Development
6 62 (11.81%) Commercial Awareness
7 61 (11.62%) Decision-Making
8 36 (6.86%) Logistics
8 36 (6.86%) Project Delivery
9 34 (6.48%) ITIL
10 33 (6.29%) Collaborative Working
10 33 (6.29%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (6.10%) Mentoring
12 31 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (5.90%) Preventative Maintenance
12 31 (5.90%) Service Delivery
13 24 (4.57%) ERP
13 24 (4.57%) ITSM
13 24 (4.57%) Project Management
14 21 (4.00%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 10 (1.90%) SQL
2 8 (1.52%) MATLAB
2 8 (1.52%) PowerShell
3 4 (0.76%) Ladder Logic
3 4 (0.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 50 (9.52%) Degree
2 29 (5.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (4.00%) City & Guilds
3 21 (4.00%) DBS Check
3 21 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 17 (3.24%) CCNA
4 17 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (3.24%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.67%) HND
6 13 (2.48%) HNC
6 13 (2.48%) MCSE
6 13 (2.48%) NVQ Level 3
7 12 (2.29%) CCNP
8 11 (2.10%) MCSA
8 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 9 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.52%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.57%) AAT
11 3 (0.57%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (2.86%) QA
3 11 (2.10%) GDPR
4 10 (1.90%) SLA
5 6 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.76%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.57%) GMP
7 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 3 (0.57%) NIST
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.19%) COSHH
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.19%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (9.90%) Active Directory
2 25 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 12 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.14%) vSphere
7 5 (0.95%) Firmware
8 4 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (5.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (2.10%) SCCM
3 6 (1.14%) Backup Exec
4 5 (0.95%) Functional Safety
5 4 (0.76%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.76%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.38%) WSUS
7 1 (0.19%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (0.19%) Galera Cluster
7 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 145 (27.62%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.76%) Google
3 24 (4.57%) VMware
4 17 (3.24%) Cisco
5 12 (2.29%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.10%) Draytek
6 11 (2.10%) Mitel
6 11 (2.10%) WatchGuard
7 10 (1.90%) Sage
8 9 (1.71%) Oracle
8 9 (1.71%) Rockwell
8 9 (1.71%) Siemens
9 8 (1.52%) DIgSILENT
9 8 (1.52%) YouTube
10 7 (1.33%) Apple
10 7 (1.33%) Veeam
11 6 (1.14%) Datto
11 6 (1.14%) Meraki
11 6 (1.14%) Ubiquiti
12 5 (0.95%) Xero