Process & Methodology Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 4 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	8	Up 15 places+15	£82,500	-19.51%	398 9.60%	589
Software Engineering	11	Up 8 places+8	£95,000	+11.76%	383 9.24%	245
Agile	12	Down -7 places-7	£78,750	+5.00%	369 8.90%	298
Business Development	14	Up 102 places+102	£60,000	-17.24%	326 7.87%	198
DevOps	17	Down -4 places-4	£81,000	+1.25%	300 7.24%	180
Problem-Solving	18	Down -12 places-12	£67,500	-3.57%	284 6.85%	291
Analytics	19	Down -4 places-4	£84,336	-0.78%	263 6.35%	278
Cybersecurity	20	Up 29 places+29	£70,000	+3.70%	249 6.01%	140
Mentoring	24	Down -7 places-7	£85,000	+13.33%	245 5.91%	202
Continuous Improvement	25	Up 4 places+4	£80,000	+22.70%	244 5.89%	202
Roadmaps	29	Down -11 places-11	£82,500	-8.33%	216 5.21%	241
Full-Stack Development	30	Up 28 places+28	£90,000	+20.00%	215 5.19%	151
CI/CD	32	Down -6 places-6	£82,500	-3.50%	190 4.58%	222
ITIL	34	Up 2 places+2	£55,000	+4.76%	182 4.39%	47
Fintech	37	Up 44 places+44	£90,000	+7.46%	174 4.20%	204
Decision-Making	43	Down -9 places-9	£80,000	-5.88%	149 3.60%	331
Business Intelligence	44	No change0	£71,250	-1.72%	147 3.55%	129
Coaching	45	No change0	£70,000	-	146 3.52%	97
Stakeholder Management	48	Down -11 places-11	£82,500	+10.00%	141 3.40%	250
Business Strategy	50	Up 25 places+25	£80,000	-12.32%	137 3.31%	72
Computer Science	52	Down -30 places-30	£85,000	+21.42%	131 3.16%	129
Data Science	52	Down -10 places-10	£85,000	-	131 3.16%	107
Data Engineering	55	Up 57 places+57	£85,000	-10.52%	126 3.04%	77
Machine Learning	57	Up 7 places+7	£90,000	+5.88%	121 2.92%	224
Infrastructure as Code	62	Down -5 places-5	£88,750	-6.57%	115 2.78%	93
Data Pipeline	62	Up 34 places+34	£80,000	+10.34%	115 2.78%	101
User Experience	62	Down -16 places-16	£75,000	-1.63%	115 2.78%	123
Data Architecture	64	Up 44 places+44	£82,500	-25.00%	112 2.70%	50
Process Improvement	67	Up 1 place+1	£67,500	-	108 2.61%	61
Data Governance	70	Up 27 places+27	£82,500	-12.00%	103 2.49%	68
Creative Thinking	70	Up 17 places+17	£40,000	-25.58%	103 2.49%	13
Microservices	74	Down -12 places-12	£85,000	-2.85%	97 2.34%	86
Budgeting	76	Up 71 places+71	£65,000	-16.12%	95 2.29%	40
Change Management	78	No change0	£70,000	+7.69%	93 2.24%	50
Project Delivery	79	No change0	£77,500	-3.12%	91 2.20%	86
Incident Response	79	Up 31 places+31	£80,000	+23.07%	91 2.20%	34
Test Automation	79	Up 3 places+3	£87,500	+10.06%	91 2.20%	60
Information Security	80	Up 15 places+15	£90,000	+38.46%	90 2.17%	28
ITSM	81	Up 14 places+14	£65,000	+45.77%	88 2.12%	31
Risk Management	83	Down -32 places-32	£85,000	-	83 2.00%	96
Data Modelling	84	Down -14 places-14	£82,500	+10.00%	82 1.98%	117
Data Management	86	Down -25 places-25	£69,480	-7.35%	80 1.93%	43
Collaborative Culture	87	Up 1 place+1	£71,500	+10.00%	79 1.91%	89
Customer Service	88	Down -33 places-33	£37,500	-6.25%	78 1.88%	68
ERP	88	Up 14 places+14	£75,000	-13.54%	78 1.88%	64
Generative AI	89	Up 47 places+47	£92,500	+2.77%	77 1.86%	54
Stakeholder Engagement	89	Up 34 places+34	£72,500	-15.20%	77 1.86%	110
Migration	90	Down -27 places-27	£90,000	+20.00%	76 1.83%	114
Project Management	92	Down -64 places-64	£66,250	-8.62%	72 1.74%	120
Service Management	94	Down -1 place-1	£67,500	+3.84%	70 1.69%	30