Process & Methodology Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	10	Up 13 places+13	£82,500	-19.51%	399 9.53%	561
Software Engineering	12	Up 7 places+7	£95,000	+11.76%	388 9.27%	229
Agile	13	Down -8 places-8	£78,750	+5.00%	374 8.93%	301
Business Development	15	Up 101 places+101	£60,000	-17.24%	328 7.83%	197
DevOps	18	Down -5 places-5	£82,500	+3.12%	304 7.26%	181
Problem-Solving	19	Down -13 places-13	£70,000	-	287 6.85%	289
Analytics	20	Down -5 places-5	£83,672	-1.56%	265 6.33%	276
Cybersecurity	21	Up 28 places+28	£70,000	+3.70%	251 5.99%	142
Continuous Improvement	23	Up 6 places+6	£80,000	+22.70%	248 5.92%	200
Mentoring	24	Down -7 places-7	£85,000	+13.33%	247 5.90%	196
Full-Stack Development	28	Up 30 places+30	£90,000	+20.00%	218 5.21%	152
Roadmaps	29	Down -11 places-11	£82,500	-8.33%	217 5.18%	237
CI/CD	31	Down -5 places-5	£82,500	-3.50%	194 4.63%	212
ITIL	33	Up 3 places+3	£55,000	+4.76%	183 4.37%	52
Fintech	36	Up 45 places+45	£90,000	+7.46%	175 4.18%	211
Decision-Making	41	Down -7 places-7	£78,750	-7.35%	151 3.61%	326
Business Intelligence	42	Up 2 places+2	£71,250	-1.72%	147 3.51%	129
Coaching	42	Up 3 places+3	£70,000	-	147 3.51%	99
Stakeholder Management	44	Down -7 places-7	£81,250	+8.33%	145 3.46%	253
Business Strategy	46	Up 29 places+29	£80,000	-12.32%	137 3.27%	72
Computer Science	47	Down -25 places-25	£85,000	+21.42%	133 3.18%	129
Data Science	48	Down -6 places-6	£85,000	-	131 3.13%	108
Data Engineering	50	Up 62 places+62	£85,000	-10.52%	127 3.03%	80
Machine Learning	52	Up 12 places+12	£90,000	+5.88%	121 2.89%	214
Data Pipeline	56	Up 40 places+40	£80,000	+10.34%	116 2.77%	99
Infrastructure as Code	57	No change0	£88,750	-6.57%	115 2.75%	92
User Experience	57	Down -11 places-11	£75,000	-1.63%	115 2.75%	123
Data Architecture	58	Up 50 places+50	£82,500	-25.00%	114 2.72%	48
Process Improvement	61	Up 7 places+7	£67,500	-	109 2.60%	60
Data Governance	64	Up 33 places+33	£82,500	-12.00%	106 2.53%	68
Creative Thinking	66	Up 21 places+21	£40,000	-25.58%	103 2.46%	13
Microservices	69	Down -7 places-7	£85,000	-2.85%	99 2.36%	85
Budgeting	71	Up 76 places+76	£65,000	-16.12%	95 2.27%	40
Test Automation	72	Up 10 places+10	£87,000	+9.43%	94 2.25%	61
Change Management	73	Up 5 places+5	£70,000	+7.69%	93 2.22%	50
Project Delivery	73	Up 6 places+6	£77,500	-3.12%	93 2.22%	84
Incident Response	74	Up 36 places+36	£80,000	+23.07%	92 2.20%	29
Information Security	75	Up 20 places+20	£87,500	+34.61%	91 2.17%	26
ITSM	76	Up 19 places+19	£65,000	+45.77%	88 2.10%	36
Risk Management	79	Down -28 places-28	£85,000	-	83 1.98%	96
Data Modelling	80	Down -10 places-10	£82,500	+10.00%	82 1.96%	113
Data Management	81	Down -20 places-20	£69,480	-7.35%	80 1.91%	42
Collaborative Culture	82	Up 6 places+6	£71,500	+10.00%	79 1.89%	86
ERP	82	Up 20 places+20	£75,000	-13.54%	79 1.89%	68
Customer Service	82	Down -27 places-27	£37,500	-6.25%	79 1.89%	61
Generative AI	83	Up 53 places+53	£92,500	+2.77%	78 1.86%	50
Stakeholder Engagement	83	Up 40 places+40	£72,500	-15.20%	78 1.86%	112
Migration	83	Down -20 places-20	£90,000	+20.00%	78 1.86%	116
Project Management	86	Down -58 places-58	£66,250	-8.62%	74 1.77%	126
Business Analysis	89	Up 15 places+15	£65,000	-23.52%	70 1.67%	60