Process & Methodology Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	8	Up 8 places+8	£87,500	-	374 10.97%	731
Software Engineering	13	Up 25 places+25	£90,000	+2.85%	287 8.42%	211
Agile	14	Down -11 places-11	£80,000	+3.22%	276 8.10%	250
Business Development	16	Up 71 places+71	£60,000	-17.24%	273 8.01%	123
Continuous Improvement	18	Up 2 places+2	£75,000	+14.68%	249 7.31%	224
Analytics	19	Up 3 places+3	£90,000	-	246 7.22%	368
Roadmaps	20	Down -3 places-3	£90,000	+2.85%	229 6.72%	316
Problem-Solving	23	Down -17 places-17	£65,000	-	217 6.37%	308
Stakeholder Management	26	Up 1 place+1	£80,000	-4.47%	203 5.96%	383
DevOps	27	Down -15 places-15	£86,750	+8.43%	200 5.87%	123
Cybersecurity	29	Up 27 places+27	£72,500	-3.33%	177 5.19%	130
CI/CD	29	Down -11 places-11	£83,000	-2.35%	177 5.19%	172
Decision-Making	30	No change0	£75,000	-	173 5.08%	330
Mentoring	35	Down -11 places-11	£90,000	+20.00%	144 4.23%	202
Full-Stack Development	36	Up 24 places+24	£95,000	+18.75%	140 4.11%	76
Fintech	38	Up 50 places+50	£98,750	+14.49%	137 4.02%	100
Process Improvement	43	Up 22 places+22	£70,000	+3.70%	121 3.55%	77
Machine Learning	47	Up 5 places+5	£95,000	+2.70%	112 3.29%	199
Business Intelligence	50	Down -16 places-16	£80,000	+20.30%	101 2.96%	126
ITIL	51	Down -23 places-23	£62,500	-	100 2.93%	48
CRM	51	Down -2 places-2	£58,000	-20.00%	100 2.93%	113
Stakeholder Engagement	52	Up 16 places+16	£75,000	-12.28%	99 2.90%	102
Infrastructure as Code	53	No change0	£90,000	-	98 2.88%	76
Workflow	54	Up 20 places+20	£70,000	+10.23%	95 2.79%	96
Data Engineering	55	Up 38 places+38	£80,000	-8.57%	94 2.76%	85
Microservices	55	Up 5 places+5	£87,500	+2.94%	94 2.76%	66
Data Pipeline	56	Up 51 places+51	£82,500	-2.94%	93 2.73%	45
Computer Science	59	Down -27 places-27	£75,000	+7.14%	89 2.61%	145
Data Architecture	61	Up 42 places+42	£90,000	+9.09%	85 2.49%	44
Platform Engineering	64	Up 35 places+35	£100,000	+29.03%	80 2.35%	60
Budgeting	64	Up 50 places+50	£65,000	-13.33%	80 2.35%	28
User Experience	66	Down -32 places-32	£71,121	-8.23%	78 2.29%	98
Migration	67	Down -34 places-34	£90,000	+16.12%	77 2.26%	118
Generative AI	67	Up 57 places+57	£95,000	-2.56%	77 2.26%	133
Data Science	68	Down -17 places-17	£90,000	+9.09%	76 2.23%	164
Storytelling	69	Up 72 places+72	£50,000	-15.25%	75 2.20%	29
Test Automation	70	Down -10 places-10	£80,000	-5.88%	74 2.17%	57
Project Delivery	71	Down -13 places-13	£70,000	-17.64%	73 2.14%	121
Data Governance	72	Down -6 places-6	£82,500	-2.94%	72 2.11%	82
Infrastructure Engineering	72	Up 14 places+14	£87,500	+16.66%	72 2.11%	35
Line Management	72	Up 30 places+30	£70,000	-17.64%	72 2.11%	28
Technical Leadership	74	Up 29 places+29	£91,500	-14.88%	70 2.05%	124
Information Security	74	Up 18 places+18	£92,500	+27.58%	70 2.05%	62
Coaching	74	Down -20 places-20	£70,000	+5.26%	70 2.05%	127
Observability	75	Up 29 places+29	£90,000	+16.12%	69 2.02%	102
ERP	76	Up 23 places+23	£90,000	+20.00%	68 2.00%	73
Project Management	78	Down -49 places-49	£62,500	-17.35%	66 1.94%	149
Business Strategy	78	Down -34 places-34	£81,250	+4.83%	66 1.94%	87
LLM	78	Up 38 places+38	£95,000	-	66 1.94%	112
Budgeting and Forecasting	79	Up 51 places+51	£65,000	-3.70%	65 1.91%	18