Process & Methodology Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 6 Oct 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	4	Up 12 places+12	£87,500	+2.94%	323 11.88%	854
Software Engineering	13	Up 23 places+23	£90,000	+5.88%	225 8.27%	240
Agile	14	Down -11 places-11	£80,000	+3.22%	221 8.13%	356
Business Development	15	Up 72 places+72	£65,000	+6.12%	213 7.83%	173
Continuous Improvement	16	Up 1 place+1	£75,000	+7.14%	201 7.39%	281
Stakeholder Management	17	Up 3 places+3	£78,750	-1.86%	200 7.35%	361
Analytics	17	Up 5 places+5	£90,000	-	200 7.35%	450
Problem-Solving	20	Down -15 places-15	£70,000	+7.69%	185 6.80%	390
Roadmaps	21	Down -1 place-1	£95,000	+5.55%	183 6.73%	344
DevOps	23	Down -8 places-8	£90,000	+12.50%	171 6.29%	171
CI/CD	24	Down -6 places-6	£85,000	-	159 5.85%	230
Decision-Making	28	No change0	£75,000	-5.51%	149 5.48%	313
Cybersecurity	31	Up 19 places+19	£73,750	-1.66%	132 4.85%	184
Full-Stack Development	32	Up 31 places+31	£95,000	+18.75%	125 4.60%	87
Fintech	38	Up 41 places+41	£95,000	+11.76%	113 4.15%	175
Mentoring	39	Down -18 places-18	£90,000	+16.12%	105 3.86%	213
Process Improvement	40	Up 26 places+26	£70,000	+3.70%	101 3.71%	118
Stakeholder Engagement	44	Up 25 places+25	£75,000	-6.25%	93 3.42%	128
Machine Learning	47	No change0	£93,750	+1.35%	89 3.27%	213
Workflow	47	Up 15 places+15	£70,000	+12.00%	89 3.27%	145
Infrastructure as Code	49	Up 10 places+10	£90,000	+1.40%	87 3.20%	112
Business Intelligence	52	Down -20 places-20	£80,000	+21.21%	82 3.01%	151
Microservices	55	Up 10 places+10	£95,000	+2.70%	77 2.83%	87
Data Engineering	55	Up 27 places+27	£80,000	-5.88%	77 2.83%	91
Platform Engineering	56	Up 42 places+42	£97,480	+29.97%	76 2.79%	90
ITIL	58	Down -35 places-35	£65,000	-5.43%	74 2.72%	49
Data Pipeline	60	Up 23 places+23	£80,000	-5.88%	72 2.65%	78
Migration	61	Down -32 places-32	£90,000	+12.50%	71 2.61%	153
Generative AI	64	Up 44 places+44	£90,000	-14.28%	67 2.46%	150
User Experience	64	Down -23 places-23	£70,000	-	67 2.46%	119
Storytelling	65	Up 54 places+54	£75,000	+46.34%	65 2.39%	49
Infrastructure Engineering	66	Up 33 places+33	£90,000	+28.57%	64 2.35%	42
Test Automation	66	Down -15 places-15	£80,000	-5.88%	64 2.35%	92
LLM	66	Up 39 places+39	£95,000	-	64 2.35%	133
Line Management	66	Up 28 places+28	£72,500	-14.70%	64 2.35%	32
Data Architecture	66	Up 34 places+34	£90,000	+9.09%	64 2.35%	60
Information Security	67	Up 4 places+4	£86,250	+18.96%	63 2.32%	72
Observability	67	Up 30 places+30	£90,000	+12.50%	63 2.32%	131
Technical Leadership	68	Up 21 places+21	£91,500	-10.73%	62 2.28%	129
CRM	69	Down -14 places-14	£75,000	-	61 2.24%	154
Coaching	69	Down -21 places-21	£81,250	+18.61%	61 2.24%	144
Budgeting	70	Up 30 places+30	£65,000	-5.45%	60 2.21%	24
Computer Science	70	Down -31 places-31	£72,500	-9.37%	60 2.21%	136
Risk Management	71	Down -25 places-25	£80,000	-11.11%	59 2.17%	171
ERP	73	Up 23 places+23	£90,000	+10.42%	57 2.10%	110
Budgeting and Forecasting	75	Up 39 places+39	£65,000	-3.70%	55 2.02%	16
Project Delivery	76	Down -9 places-9	£71,250	-20.83%	54 1.99%	132
Data Science	76	Down -17 places-17	£90,000	+7.46%	54 1.99%	158
Technology Transformation	77	Up 44 places+44	£77,500	-27.90%	53 1.95%	59
Data Modelling	77	Down -38 places-38	£80,000	-5.88%	53 1.95%	107