Process & Methodology Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 16 Apr 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	9	Up 14 places+14	£82,500	-19.51%	387 10.06%	502
Agile	10	Down -5 places-5	£77,500	+3.33%	384 9.98%	249
Software Engineering	13	Up 5 places+5	£95,000	+11.76%	338 8.79%	199
Problem-Solving	15	Down -7 places-7	£66,750	-4.64%	325 8.45%	279
Business Development	18	Up 79 places+79	£60,000	-17.24%	295 7.67%	167
Analytics	19	Down -6 places-6	£83,672	-1.56%	280 7.28%	256
DevOps	19	Down -5 places-5	£80,000	-	280 7.28%	148
Continuous Improvement	20	Up 9 places+9	£82,500	+15.78%	270 7.02%	174
Cybersecurity	21	Up 29 places+29	£70,000	+7.69%	262 6.81%	123
Mentoring	23	Down -6 places-6	£85,000	+13.33%	258 6.71%	190
Roadmaps	28	Down -10 places-10	£85,000	-2.85%	212 5.51%	196
ITIL	29	Up 6 places+6	£62,500	+21.35%	207 5.38%	41
CI/CD	31	Down -3 places-3	£82,500	-2.94%	198 5.15%	177
Full-Stack Development	33	Up 21 places+21	£90,000	+20.00%	195 5.07%	111
Business Intelligence	40	Up 3 places+3	£70,000	-3.44%	160 4.16%	118
Decision-Making	41	Down -7 places-7	£78,750	-4.54%	156 4.06%	261
Stakeholder Management	42	Down -4 places-4	£83,750	+11.66%	152 3.95%	202
Coaching	42	Up 8 places+8	£95,000	+35.71%	152 3.95%	93
Fintech	43	Up 38 places+38	£90,000	+9.09%	148 3.85%	187
Business Strategy	45	Up 38 places+38	£80,000	-13.51%	141 3.67%	54
Computer Science	48	Down -28 places-28	£85,000	+21.42%	133 3.46%	100
Data Science	51	Down -11 places-11	£85,000	-	125 3.25%	97
Data Engineering	52	Up 57 places+57	£85,000	-8.10%	124 3.22%	70
User Experience	53	Down -7 places-7	£77,500	+3.33%	123 3.20%	117
Machine Learning	54	Up 3 places+3	£90,000	+12.50%	122 3.17%	203
Data Pipeline	54	Up 38 places+38	£82,500	+6.45%	122 3.17%	87
Process Improvement	55	Up 19 places+19	£67,500	-3.57%	118 3.07%	58
Creative Thinking	56	Up 30 places+30	£40,000	-46.66%	117 3.04%	11
Data Governance	58	Up 42 places+42	£82,500	-10.81%	115 2.99%	67
Data Architecture	62	Up 51 places+51	£82,500	-25.00%	109 2.83%	43
ITSM	64	Up 31 places+31	£65,000	+45.77%	105 2.73%	24
Infrastructure as Code	65	Down -5 places-5	£86,250	-4.16%	104 2.70%	76
Test Automation	66	Up 18 places+18	£87,500	+13.63%	103 2.68%	53
Change Management	67	Down -1 place-1	£70,000	+7.69%	102 2.65%	46
Project Delivery	68	Down -1 place-1	£82,500	+3.12%	98 2.55%	72
Budgeting	71	Up 78 places+78	£65,000	-16.12%	94 2.44%	37
Microservices	72	Down -16 places-16	£85,000	-2.85%	93 2.42%	88
Data Modelling	73	Down -2 places-2	£80,000	+6.66%	92 2.39%	78
Risk Management	74	Down -24 places-24	£85,000	-	90 2.34%	77
Incident Response	76	Up 30 places+30	£80,000	+23.07%	88 2.29%	28
Service Management	78	Up 20 places+20	£68,750	+5.76%	86 2.24%	31
Customer Service	79	Down -25 places-25	£37,500	-3.84%	85 2.21%	71
Information Security	80	Up 7 places+7	£80,000	+14.28%	84 2.18%	32
Stakeholder Engagement	81	Up 39 places+39	£75,000	-12.28%	83 2.16%	84
Data Management	81	Down -23 places-23	£70,000	-6.66%	83 2.16%	38
Collaborative Culture	82	Up 6 places+6	£75,000	+7.14%	82 2.13%	83
ETL	86	Down -14 places-14	£76,250	+1.66%	77 2.00%	51
Technical Leadership	88	Up 11 places+11	£100,000	-0.74%	74 1.92%	61
Migration	89	Down -21 places-21	£90,000	+10.76%	73 1.90%	98
Project Management	91	Down -69 places-69	£67,500	-8.47%	71 1.85%	111