Process & Methodology Statistics in Cheltenham

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Permanent Job Market Index
Description	Rank 6 Months to 2 Nov 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Software Engineering	3	Up 5 places+5	£80,000	-	213 22.00%	42
Cybersecurity	5	Up 8 places+8	£55,000	-	153 15.81%	56
DevOps	9	Down 2 places-2	£87,500	+40.00%	103 10.64%	23
Infrastructure Engineering	14	Up 12 places+12	£75,000	+11.11%	79 8.16%	14
CI/CD	15	Down 2 places-2	£85,000	+41.66%	73 7.54%	30
Agile	18	Down 12 places-12	£85,000	+41.66%	64 6.61%	24
AI	20	Down 4 places-4	£95,000	+52.00%	58 5.99%	21
Problem-Solving	21	Down 5 places-5	£67,500	+17.39%	56 5.79%	31
Containerisation	24	Down 11 places-11	£82,500	-	49 5.06%	12
Infrastructure as Code	27	Down 4 places-4	£82,500	-5.71%	46 4.75%	14
Business Development	28	Down 8 places-8	£47,500	-39.68%	43 4.44%	5
Machine Learning	30	Down 12 places-12	£70,000	+12.00%	40 4.13%	18
Stakeholder Management	31	Down 11 places-11	£90,000	+16.12%	39 4.03%	9
Open Source	32	New entry-	£100,000	-	38 3.93%	8
Test Automation	34	Down 12 places-12	£73,750	+145.83%	35 3.62%	12
Continuous Improvement	37	Down 17 places-17	£53,750	-28.33%	32 3.31%	22
DevSecOps	38	Down 12 places-12	£78,000	-8.23%	31 3.20%	7
Microservices	38	Down 18 places-18	£85,000	+36.00%	31 3.20%	7
Data Science	39	Down 14 places-14	£90,000	+5.88%	28 2.89%	9
Cost Reduction	39	New entry-	-	-	28 2.89%
Analytics	40	Down 18 places-18	£98,000	+42.54%	26 2.69%	8
Project Delivery	42	Down 17 places-17	£72,500	+3.57%	24 2.48%	6
Decision-Making	43	Down 21 places-21	£98,000	+56.80%	23 2.38%	4
Full-Stack Development	43	Down 25 places-25	£70,000	+7.69%	23 2.38%	7
Cloud Operations	44	New entry-	£50,000	-	22 2.27%
Cloud Security	45	New entry-	£75,000	-	21 2.17%	7
Mentoring	45	Down 24 places-24	£82,500	+8.19%	21 2.17%	19
Vulnerability Research	46	New entry-	£85,000	-	20 2.07%	4
Project Management	47	Down 27 places-27	£130,446	+76.87%	19 1.96%	9
Infrastructure Automation	48	Down 22 places-22	£75,000	+11.11%	18 1.86%	6
Technical Leadership	49	Down 24 places-24	£85,000	+13.33%	17 1.76%	10
Service Delivery	49	Down 25 places-25	£80,000	+52.38%	17 1.76%	3
SDLC	49	Down 28 places-28	£71,500	+30.00%	17 1.76%	6
Data Strategy	50	New entry-	£100,000	-	16 1.65%	4
Collaborative Working	50	New entry-	£70,000	-	16 1.65%	6
Android Development	50	New entry-	£90,000	-	16 1.65%	6
Customer Engagement	51	Down 25 places-25	£95,000	+187.87%	15 1.55%	2
Code Quality	51	Down 26 places-26	£75,500	+43.80%	15 1.55%	5
Batch Processing	52	New entry-	£100,000	-	14 1.45%
Natural Language Processing	52	Down 26 places-26	£95,000	+11.76%	14 1.45%	1
TDD	52	New entry-	£98,000	-	14 1.45%	6
Penetration Testing	53	New entry-	£55,000	-	13 1.34%	7
Collaborative Culture	53	Down 32 places-32	£40,000	-33.33%	13 1.34%	8
ERP	53	Down 35 places-35	£44,000	-41.33%	13 1.34%	2
Reverse Engineering	54	New entry-	£90,000	-	12 1.24%	8
Generative AI	54	Down 28 places-28	£95,000	-	12 1.24%	4
CRM	54	New entry-	£36,500	-	12 1.24%	1
Validation	54	Down 28 places-28	£70,000	-17.64%	12 1.24%	3
Security Operations	55	New entry-	£45,000	-	11 1.14%	8
Site Reliability Engineering	55	Down 30 places-30	£92,500	-	11 1.14%	1