Process & Methodology Statistics in Cardiff

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 3 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Software Engineering	4	Up 17 places+17	£70,000	-	119 11.51%	14
CI/CD	7	Up 9 places+9	£64,000	+6.66%	113 10.93%	16
Continuous Improvement	9	Up 7 places+7	£63,500	+1.60%	103 9.96%	21
Business Development	10	Down 1 place-1	£40,000	-20.00%	97 9.38%	7
DevOps	10	No change0	£55,000	-8.33%	97 9.38%	11
Agile	12	Down 7 places-7	£65,000	+27.45%	87 8.41%	23
AI	19	Down 15 places-15	£71,000	+42.00%	70 6.77%	18
Mentoring	21	Down 9 places-9	£71,000	+18.33%	65 6.29%	19
Customer Service	22	Down 4 places-4	£32,010	+11.33%	63 6.09%	5
Stakeholder Management	23	Down 2 places-2	£70,000	-1.75%	62 6.00%	21
Problem-Solving	25	Down 22 places-22	£50,000	+11.11%	56 5.42%	26
Cybersecurity	27	Up 3 places+3	£74,830	-3.09%	53 5.13%	27
Infrastructure Engineering	29	Down 1 place-1	£55,000	-21.42%	50 4.84%	7
Analytics	31	Down 7 places-7	£63,500	+5.83%	47 4.55%	10
Infrastructure as Code	32	Down 11 places-11	£55,000	-8.33%	42 4.06%	9
Stakeholder Engagement	32	Up 2 places+2	£60,000	+9.09%	42 4.06%	18
Technical Leadership	33	No change0	£75,000	-33.98%	41 3.97%	9
Platform Engineering	34	Down 3 places-3	£70,000	-5.15%	40 3.87%	6
Decision-Making	40	Down 20 places-20	£77,500	+21.83%	34 3.29%	12
Full-Stack Development	40	Down 20 places-20	£70,000	+16.66%	34 3.29%	5
Technology Transformation	40	New entry-	£60,000	-	34 3.29%	4
Customer Experience	41	Down 11 places-11	£79,750	+85.11%	33 3.19%	6
Digital Transformation Programme	42	Down 12 places-12	£90,000	+56.52%	32 3.09%	8
B2B	43	Down 17 places-17	£57,500	+15.00%	30 2.90%	4
Risk Management	43	Down 12 places-12	£76,000	+0.56%	30 2.90%	2
Incident Response	45	Down 11 places-11	£55,000	-15.38%	28 2.71%	9
Coaching	45	Down 15 places-15	£70,996	+33.45%	28 2.71%	10
Test Automation	46	Down 17 places-17	£64,750	+24.51%	26 2.51%	6
Collaborative Engineering	46	New entry-	£61,250	-	26 2.51%
Service Delivery	46	Down 13 places-13	£45,000	-18.18%	26 2.51%	4
Cloud Security	47	Down 17 places-17	£90,000	+50.00%	25 2.42%	7
ITIL	48	Down 18 places-18	£30,000	-14.28%	24 2.32%	10
Data Modelling	49	Down 16 places-16	£63,500	-	23 2.22%	8
Data Engineering	49	Down 15 places-15	£66,000	-56.00%	23 2.22%	5
Business Intelligence	51	Down 22 places-22	£55,000	-	21 2.03%	8
User Stories	51	Down 18 places-18	£63,500	+27.00%	21 2.03%	4
Data Pipeline	52	Down 19 places-19	£55,000	-37.14%	20 1.93%	5
Ethical Hacking	53	New entry-	£65,000	-	19 1.84%	9
Observability	53	Down 24 places-24	£71,991	-2.45%	19 1.84%	8
LLM	53	New entry-	£70,000	-	19 1.84%	5
Vulnerability Management	53	Down 19 places-19	£76,000	-	19 1.84%	16
Validation	53	Down 19 places-19	£70,000	-0.11%	19 1.84%	5
Incident Management	54	Down 21 places-21	£36,961	-20.51%	18 1.74%	3
SDLC	54	Down 20 places-20	£66,000	-0.75%	18 1.74%	7
Roadmaps	55	Down 32 places-32	£63,093	-21.60%	17 1.64%	8
Data Governance	55	Down 21 places-21	£65,000	+18.18%	17 1.64%	6
TDD	55	New entry-	£63,500	-	17 1.64%	2
Data Analysis	56	Down 26 places-26	£65,000	-	16 1.55%	3
Security Operations	56	Down 22 places-22	£47,500	-	16 1.55%	2
User Acceptance Testing	56	Down 26 places-26	£65,000	+58.53%	16 1.55%	8