Process & Methodology Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 20 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	8	Up 16 places+16	£82,500	-19.51%	391 9.94%	566
Agile	9	Down -4 places-4	£77,500	+3.33%	384 9.76%	258
Software Engineering	11	Up 8 places+8	£95,000	+11.76%	347 8.82%	214
Problem-Solving	14	Down -6 places-6	£66,750	-4.64%	316 8.03%	288
Business Development	16	Up 91 places+91	£60,000	-17.24%	305 7.75%	154
DevOps	17	Down -4 places-4	£80,000	-	275 6.99%	155
Continuous Improvement	18	Up 11 places+11	£81,250	+16.07%	272 6.91%	196
Analytics	19	Down -5 places-5	£83,672	-4.37%	270 6.86%	335
Cybersecurity	20	Up 31 places+31	£70,000	+7.69%	265 6.74%	143
Mentoring	21	Down -4 places-4	£85,000	+13.33%	261 6.63%	189
Roadmaps	28	Down -10 places-10	£85,000	-2.85%	211 5.36%	214
ITIL	30	Up 7 places+7	£60,000	+20.00%	205 5.21%	43
Full-Stack Development	32	Up 23 places+23	£90,000	+20.00%	197 5.01%	117
CI/CD	34	Down -7 places-7	£82,500	-2.94%	190 4.83%	184
Business Intelligence	40	Up 4 places+4	£70,000	-3.44%	156 3.97%	98
Decision-Making	41	Down -7 places-7	£78,750	-7.35%	155 3.94%	281
Coaching	41	Up 7 places+7	£95,000	+33.33%	155 3.94%	88
Fintech	42	Up 43 places+43	£90,000	+9.09%	153 3.89%	190
Stakeholder Management	43	Down -6 places-6	£85,000	+13.33%	152 3.86%	215
Business Strategy	47	Up 37 places+37	£80,000	-13.51%	140 3.56%	57
Computer Science	48	Down -27 places-27	£85,000	+21.42%	134 3.41%	97
Data Science	52	Down -12 places-12	£85,000	-	129 3.28%	115
User Experience	53	Down -8 places-8	£80,000	+6.66%	124 3.15%	135
Data Engineering	53	Up 63 places+63	£85,000	-8.10%	124 3.15%	73
Machine Learning	55	Up 5 places+5	£90,000	+12.50%	122 3.10%	216
Data Pipeline	56	Up 43 places+43	£82,500	+10.00%	121 3.08%	95
Creative Thinking	58	Up 35 places+35	£40,000	-46.66%	117 2.97%	10
Process Improvement	61	Up 16 places+16	£67,500	-	114 2.90%	65
Data Architecture	64	Up 56 places+56	£82,500	-25.00%	110 2.80%	40
Data Governance	65	Up 42 places+42	£82,500	-10.81%	109 2.77%	67
ITSM	67	Up 36 places+36	£65,000	+45.77%	105 2.67%	28
Infrastructure as Code	68	Down -10 places-10	£86,250	-6.75%	104 2.64%	89
Change Management	70	No change0	£70,000	+7.69%	102 2.59%	51
Test Automation	72	Up 16 places+16	£87,500	+9.37%	99 2.52%	52
Project Delivery	73	Up 4 places+4	£82,500	+3.12%	97 2.47%	84
Microservices	74	Down -18 places-18	£85,000	-2.85%	96 2.44%	84
Budgeting	76	Up 79 places+79	£65,000	-16.12%	94 2.39%	43
Risk Management	80	Down -29 places-29	£87,500	+2.94%	90 2.29%	92
Incident Response	81	Up 33 places+33	£80,000	+23.07%	89 2.26%	45
Data Modelling	82	Down -11 places-11	£80,000	+6.66%	88 2.24%	86
Service Management	83	Up 22 places+22	£67,500	+3.84%	86 2.19%	29
Information Security	83	Up 11 places+11	£85,000	+21.42%	86 2.19%	32
Customer Service	84	Down -28 places-28	£37,500	-6.25%	85 2.16%	65
Data Management	86	Down -27 places-27	£70,000	-6.66%	81 2.06%	41
Collaborative Culture	86	Up 11 places+11	£73,250	+4.64%	81 2.06%	88
Stakeholder Engagement	87	Up 42 places+42	£73,750	-13.74%	80 2.03%	89
Technical Leadership	90	Up 17 places+17	£100,000	-3.61%	75 1.91%	71
ETL	91	Down -15 places-15	£77,500	+3.33%	73 1.86%	47
Project Management	91	Down -68 places-68	£66,648	-8.07%	73 1.86%	121
Migration	92	Down -21 places-21	£90,000	+14.28%	72 1.83%	97