Process & Methodology Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 10 Aug 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	8	Up 10 places+10	£87,500	-2.77%	389 10.13%	573
Software Engineering	11	Up 19 places+19	£90,000	+2.85%	333 8.67%	204
Business Development	11	Up 90 places+90	£60,000	-28.88%	333 8.67%	112
Agile	14	Down -10 places-10	£82,500	+6.45%	291 7.58%	307
Continuous Improvement	17	Up 6 places+6	£75,000	+15.03%	255 6.64%	245
Analytics	18	Up 1 place+1	£85,000	+9.67%	248 6.46%	343
Roadmaps	20	No change0	£87,750	+0.28%	231 6.01%	293
DevOps	23	Down -11 places-11	£85,000	+6.25%	222 5.78%	143
Problem-Solving	24	Down -18 places-18	£62,500	-3.84%	220 5.73%	312
Cybersecurity	26	Up 31 places+31	£71,000	-5.33%	187 4.87%	124
CI/CD	28	Down -12 places-12	£83,000	-2.35%	185 4.82%	169
Stakeholder Management	29	Down -3 places-3	£80,000	-	182 4.74%	380
Decision-Making	30	Up 3 places+3	£75,000	-	177 4.61%	289
Mentoring	32	Down -12 places-12	£87,000	+16.00%	167 4.35%	192
Full-Stack Development	34	Up 21 places+21	£90,000	+16.12%	164 4.27%	88
Fintech	38	Up 46 places+46	£95,000	+11.76%	152 3.96%	106
Process Improvement	43	Up 25 places+25	£67,500	-	135 3.51%	74
Machine Learning	46	Up 13 places+13	£91,250	+7.35%	127 3.31%	184
ITIL	47	Down -20 places-20	£54,500	-6.03%	125 3.25%	48
Business Intelligence	48	Down -11 places-11	£80,000	+21.21%	120 3.12%	109
Data Engineering	53	Up 39 places+39	£81,250	-4.41%	109 2.84%	84
Infrastructure as Code	54	Down -8 places-8	£90,000	-	106 2.76%	77
Computer Science	54	Down -24 places-24	£76,250	+8.92%	106 2.76%	148
Stakeholder Engagement	56	Up 22 places+22	£75,000	-12.02%	101 2.63%	111
Microservices	57	Down -3 places-3	£87,500	+6.06%	100 2.60%	78
Budgeting	59	Up 60 places+60	£65,000	-3.70%	98 2.55%	24
Data Science	59	Down -11 places-11	£86,000	+4.24%	98 2.55%	126
Data Pipeline	60	Up 38 places+38	£82,500	+3.12%	97 2.53%	67
CRM	61	Down -7 places-7	£55,000	-20.28%	94 2.45%	134
Workflow	62	Up 4 places+4	£70,000	+8.94%	93 2.42%	94
Data Architecture	65	Up 43 places+43	£90,000	+9.09%	88 2.29%	33
User Experience	67	Down -31 places-31	£75,000	-6.25%	86 2.24%	103
Generative AI	67	Up 52 places+52	£92,500	+5.71%	86 2.24%	87
Coaching	69	Down -26 places-26	£70,000	+6.87%	82 2.13%	101
Platform Engineering	69	Up 15 places+15	£100,000	+25.00%	82 2.13%	72
ERP	69	Up 25 places+25	£90,000	+20.00%	82 2.13%	65
Budgeting and Forecasting	70	Up 60 places+60	£65,000	-3.70%	81 2.11%	23
Business Strategy	71	Down -19 places-19	£80,000	+3.22%	80 2.08%	72
Test Automation	72	Down -9 places-9	£82,500	-2.94%	79 2.06%	61
Data Governance	73	Down -5 places-5	£82,500	-5.71%	77 2.00%	83
Change Management	74	Down -6 places-6	£71,811	+6.38%	76 1.98%	68
Migration	77	Down -39 places-39	£90,000	+16.12%	72 1.87%	117
Project Management	77	Down -49 places-49	£64,955	-14.10%	72 1.87%	128
Technical Leadership	79	Up 30 places+30	£94,490	-19.58%	70 1.82%	116
Information Security	79	Up 4 places+4	£92,500	+32.14%	70 1.82%	61
Project Delivery	79	Down -20 places-20	£67,500	-20.58%	70 1.82%	123
Infrastructure Engineering	81	Up 7 places+7	£90,000	+16.12%	68 1.77%	40
Observability	81	Up 16 places+16	£88,750	+14.51%	68 1.77%	95
Customer Service	82	Down -33 places-33	£37,500	-11.76%	67 1.74%	64
LLM	82	Up 32 places+32	£95,000	-	67 1.74%	98