Process & Methodology Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 11 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	9	Up 10 places+10	£85,000	-15.00%	411 9.54%	385
Business Development	11	Up 103 places+103	£60,000	-21.31%	387 8.98%	100
Software Engineering	13	Up 11 places+11	£91,250	+4.28%	372 8.64%	107
Agile	14	Down -10 places-10	£84,000	+8.38%	319 7.40%	222
Continuous Improvement	20	Up 3 places+3	£77,500	+14.81%	263 6.10%	181
Analytics	20	Down -4 places-4	£85,000	+13.33%	263 6.10%	242
DevOps	21	Down -9 places-9	£85,000	+6.25%	253 5.87%	92
Roadmaps	23	Down -5 places-5	£85,000	-6.84%	240 5.57%	194
Problem-Solving	24	Down -18 places-18	£65,000	-3.70%	228 5.29%	213
Cybersecurity	26	Up 35 places+35	£70,000	-6.66%	217 5.04%	85
Full-Stack Development	30	Up 24 places+24	£85,000	+9.67%	196 4.55%	64
Mentoring	31	Down -12 places-12	£85,000	+13.33%	195 4.53%	124
CI/CD	32	Down -16 places-16	£82,500	-2.94%	192 4.46%	111
Decision-Making	33	Up 2 places+2	£75,000	-	188 4.36%	213
Fintech	35	Up 45 places+45	£90,000	+5.88%	177 4.11%	122
Stakeholder Management	39	Down -10 places-10	£80,000	+1.58%	166 3.85%	274
Process Improvement	42	Up 33 places+33	£67,500	-	151 3.51%	66
ITIL	44	Down -16 places-16	£55,000	-5.17%	142 3.30%	28
Machine Learning	49	Up 10 places+10	£90,000	-2.70%	127 2.95%	116
Business Intelligence	50	Down -14 places-14	£81,500	+23.48%	125 2.90%	86
Budgeting	54	Up 87 places+87	£65,000	-3.70%	121 2.81%	29
Data Engineering	56	Up 45 places+45	£85,000	-8.10%	117 2.72%	57
Computer Science	57	Down -30 places-30	£77,500	+6.89%	116 2.69%	68
Data Science	57	Down -10 places-10	£85,000	-	116 2.69%	85
Business Strategy	57	Up 4 places+4	£77,500	-8.82%	116 2.69%	51
Infrastructure as Code	58	Down -14 places-14	£90,000	-	115 2.67%	58
Coaching	62	Down -16 places-16	£70,000	+6.06%	102 2.37%	81
Stakeholder Engagement	63	Up 26 places+26	£72,000	-15.29%	100 2.32%	105
Microservices	64	Down -11 places-11	£87,500	-5.40%	98 2.27%	55
ERP	65	Up 42 places+42	£85,000	+1.49%	97 2.25%	40
Data Architecture	65	Up 47 places+47	£90,000	-2.70%	97 2.25%	35
Data Pipeline	65	Up 41 places+41	£82,500	+11.86%	97 2.25%	50
Budgeting and Forecasting	67	Up 78 places+78	£65,500	-1.13%	95 2.21%	20
User Experience	69	Down -34 places-34	£71,121	-9.68%	93 2.16%	97
Data Governance	70	Up 2 places+2	£82,500	-8.33%	92 2.14%	48
CRM	74	Down -18 places-18	£62,500	-14.67%	87 2.02%	89
Generative AI	75	Up 56 places+56	£92,500	+8.82%	86 2.00%	54
Change Management	76	Down -8 places-8	£72,500	+7.40%	85 1.97%	51
Test Automation	78	Down -15 places-15	£81,250	-4.41%	83 1.93%	42
Project Management	79	Down -53 places-53	£64,705	-16.51%	81 1.88%	101
Project Delivery	79	Down -20 places-20	£73,000	-18.88%	81 1.88%	92
Business Analysis	81	Up 3 places+3	£65,000	-18.75%	79 1.83%	34
Migration	81	Down -39 places-39	£90,000	+16.12%	79 1.83%	93
Platform Engineering	81	Down -1 place-1	£100,000	+21.21%	79 1.83%	42
Incident Response	81	Up 38 places+38	£80,000	+23.07%	79 1.83%	20
Information Security	82	Up 6 places+6	£92,500	+60.39%	78 1.81%	26
Risk Management	83	Down -39 places-39	£80,000	-13.04%	77 1.79%	71
Workflow	84	Down -18 places-18	£65,000	-	76 1.76%	79
Customer Service	87	Down -36 places-36	£41,000	-3.52%	73 1.69%	53
ITSM	88	Down -7 places-7	£55,000	+23.34%	72 1.67%	28