Process & Methodology Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 7 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	10	Up 8 places+8	£85,000	-17.07%	419 9.49%	579
Software Engineering	12	Up 10 places+10	£92,500	+5.71%	392 8.88%	242
Business Development	13	Up 111 places+111	£60,000	-28.35%	372 8.43%	181
Agile	14	Down -10 places-10	£80,000	+6.66%	353 8.00%	269
DevOps	18	Down -5 places-5	£82,500	+3.12%	292 6.61%	133
Analytics	23	Down -7 places-7	£87,000	+8.75%	259 5.87%	259
Continuous Improvement	24	Up 5 places+5	£77,500	+19.23%	255 5.78%	184
Problem-Solving	25	Down -19 places-19	£70,000	+3.70%	254 5.75%	279
Roadmaps	26	Down -7 places-7	£85,000	-5.55%	245 5.55%	220
Cybersecurity	27	Up 36 places+36	£70,000	-6.66%	244 5.53%	123
Mentoring	31	Down -14 places-14	£87,500	+16.66%	229 5.19%	165
Full-Stack Development	32	Up 31 places+31	£90,000	+20.00%	226 5.12%	117
CI/CD	35	Down -14 places-14	£82,500	-2.94%	191 4.33%	187
Fintech	41	Up 46 places+46	£90,000	+9.09%	172 3.90%	182
Decision-Making	42	Down -4 places-4	£77,500	+3.33%	170 3.85%	251
ITIL	43	Down -7 places-7	£61,250	+5.60%	160 3.62%	41
Stakeholder Management	44	Down -10 places-10	£80,000	+6.66%	152 3.44%	293
Coaching	48	Up 1 place+1	£65,000	-	135 3.06%	90
Process Improvement	48	Up 24 places+24	£67,500	-	135 3.06%	72
Business Strategy	50	Up 33 places+33	£80,000	-3.03%	132 2.99%	70
Business Intelligence	54	Down -12 places-12	£84,000	+24.44%	127 2.88%	100
Data Science	54	Down -9 places-9	£85,000	-	127 2.88%	98
Computer Science	55	Down -31 places-31	£82,500	+17.85%	126 2.85%	104
Machine Learning	55	Up 8 places+8	£90,000	+5.88%	126 2.85%	186
Data Engineering	56	Up 54 places+54	£90,000	-5.26%	123 2.79%	73
Infrastructure as Code	57	Down -6 places-6	£90,000	-2.70%	121 2.74%	82
Budgeting	59	Up 91 places+91	£65,000	-21.21%	115 2.60%	31
Data Architecture	63	Up 54 places+54	£90,000	-15.29%	109 2.47%	35
User Experience	65	Down -24 places-24	£71,121	-5.17%	103 2.33%	97
Data Governance	66	Up 24 places+24	£82,500	-8.33%	102 2.31%	47
Data Pipeline	66	Up 43 places+43	£82,500	+13.79%	102 2.31%	66
Microservices	69	Down -5 places-5	£85,000	-8.10%	97 2.20%	74
ERP	70	Up 50 places+50	£85,000	-	95 2.15%	71
Stakeholder Engagement	71	Up 36 places+36	£71,500	-15.88%	93 2.11%	108
Change Management	73	Up 1 place+1	£70,125	+7.88%	91 2.06%	63
Incident Response	74	Up 55 places+55	£80,000	+23.07%	90 2.04%	32
Generative AI	75	Up 63 places+63	£92,500	+2.77%	89 2.02%	92
Project Delivery	76	Up 2 places+2	£77,500	-8.82%	88 1.99%	83
Creative Thinking	79	Up 15 places+15	£40,000	+23.07%	85 1.93%	14
Test Automation	80	No change0	£85,000	-	84 1.90%	67
Budgeting and Forecasting	81	Up 76 places+76	£67,500	+1.88%	83 1.88%	19
Collaborative Culture	83	Up 11 places+11	£71,500	+5.92%	80 1.81%	102
Customer Service	85	Down -24 places-24	£38,500	-8.33%	76 1.72%	55
Information Security	85	Up 12 places+12	£92,500	+60.39%	76 1.72%	36
Risk Management	86	Down -33 places-33	£80,000	-11.11%	75 1.70%	87
ITSM	87	Up 5 places+5	£65,000	+45.77%	74 1.68%	27
Migration	87	Down -37 places-37	£90,000	+20.00%	74 1.68%	101
Business Analysis	87	Up 15 places+15	£65,000	-18.75%	74 1.68%	35
Project Management	88	Down -61 places-61	£68,250	-9.00%	73 1.65%	103
CRM	88	Down -23 places-23	£52,500	-25.00%	73 1.65%	160