Process & Methodology Statistics in Central London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 18 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%	385 9.90%	526
Agile	10	Down -5 places-5	£77,500	+3.33%	383 9.85%	257
Software Engineering	13	Up 6 places+6	£95,000	+11.76%	344 8.85%	214
Problem-Solving	15	Down -7 places-7	£66,750	-4.64%	318 8.18%	279
Business Development	18	Up 83 places+83	£60,000	-17.24%	302 7.77%	168
DevOps	19	Down -6 places-6	£80,000	-	275 7.07%	160
Continuous Improvement	20	Up 9 places+9	£80,000	+14.28%	273 7.02%	185
Analytics	21	Down -7 places-7	£83,672	-1.56%	271 6.97%	285
Cybersecurity	22	Up 29 places+29	£70,000	+7.69%	263 6.76%	126
Mentoring	23	Down -6 places-6	£85,000	+13.33%	261 6.71%	178
Roadmaps	29	Down -11 places-11	£85,000	-2.85%	210 5.40%	208
ITIL	30	Up 8 places+8	£60,000	+19.40%	206 5.30%	43
Full-Stack Development	33	Up 24 places+24	£90,000	+20.00%	196 5.04%	108
CI/CD	35	Down -8 places-8	£82,500	-2.94%	191 4.91%	190
Business Intelligence	41	Up 4 places+4	£70,000	-3.44%	156 4.01%	99
Coaching	42	Up 8 places+8	£95,000	+31.03%	155 3.99%	85
Decision-Making	42	Down -7 places-7	£78,750	-5.97%	155 3.99%	278
Stakeholder Management	43	Down -5 places-5	£85,000	+13.33%	152 3.91%	217
Fintech	44	Up 39 places+39	£90,000	+9.09%	151 3.88%	192
Business Strategy	48	Up 34 places+34	£80,000	-12.32%	140 3.60%	57
Computer Science	50	Down -29 places-29	£85,000	+21.42%	134 3.45%	104
Data Science	55	Down -15 places-15	£85,000	-	127 3.27%	103
Data Engineering	56	Up 56 places+56	£85,000	-8.10%	124 3.19%	78
User Experience	58	Down -12 places-12	£77,500	+3.33%	122 3.14%	123
Machine Learning	59	No change0	£90,000	+12.50%	121 3.11%	195
Data Pipeline	60	Up 35 places+35	£82,500	+6.45%	119 3.06%	97
Creative Thinking	62	Up 27 places+27	£40,000	-46.66%	117 3.01%	9
Process Improvement	64	Up 12 places+12	£67,500	-	115 2.96%	67
Data Architecture	68	Up 48 places+48	£82,500	-25.00%	110 2.83%	46
Data Governance	68	Up 34 places+34	£82,500	-13.15%	110 2.83%	67
ITSM	70	Up 29 places+29	£65,000	+45.77%	105 2.70%	30
Infrastructure as Code	71	Down -12 places-12	£86,250	-6.75%	104 2.67%	86
Change Management	72	Down -2 places-2	£70,000	+7.69%	102 2.62%	51
Test Automation	74	Up 11 places+11	£87,500	+9.37%	99 2.55%	53
Project Delivery	76	Down -2 places-2	£82,500	+3.12%	97 2.49%	83
Microservices	77	Down -20 places-20	£85,000	-2.85%	96 2.47%	91
Budgeting	79	Up 72 places+72	£65,000	-16.12%	94 2.42%	46
Risk Management	82	Down -30 places-30	£87,500	+2.94%	90 2.31%	82
Incident Response	83	Up 26 places+26	£80,000	+23.07%	89 2.29%	30
Data Modelling	84	Down -12 places-12	£80,000	+6.66%	88 2.26%	86
Information Security	86	Up 4 places+4	£85,000	+21.42%	86 2.21%	31
Customer Service	86	Down -29 places-29	£37,500	-6.25%	86 2.21%	67
Service Management	86	Up 17 places+17	£67,500	+3.84%	86 2.21%	31
Data Management	88	Down -28 places-28	£70,000	-6.66%	82 2.11%	34
Collaborative Culture	89	Up 4 places+4	£73,250	+4.64%	81 2.08%	82
Stakeholder Engagement	90	Up 35 places+35	£73,750	-13.74%	80 2.06%	95
Technical Leadership	93	Up 10 places+10	£100,000	-3.61%	75 1.93%	67
ETL	94	Down -19 places-19	£77,500	+3.33%	73 1.88%	54
Project Management	94	Down -71 places-71	£66,648	-11.13%	73 1.88%	113
Migration	94	Down -22 places-22	£90,000	+12.50%	73 1.88%	105