Process & Methodology Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 29 Jul 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	10	Up 9 places+9	£87,500	-10.25%	366 9.65%	251
Business Development	11	Up 85 places+85	£60,000	-36.00%	357 9.42%	69
Software Engineering	13	Up 19 places+19	£90,000	+5.88%	336 8.86%	129
Agile	18	Down -14 places-14	£83,000	+4.56%	272 7.17%	150
Analytics	21	Down -4 places-4	£85,000	+6.25%	226 5.96%	134
DevOps	22	Down -11 places-11	£85,000	+3.03%	218 5.75%	102
Continuous Improvement	23	Up 3 places+3	£77,500	+16.98%	215 5.67%	100
Problem-Solving	25	Down -19 places-19	£65,000	-3.70%	200 5.28%	127
Roadmaps	28	Down -7 places-7	£90,000	+2.85%	192 5.06%	111
Cybersecurity	29	Up 40 places+40	£70,600	-5.86%	178 4.70%	71
CI/CD	30	Down -14 places-14	£82,500	-2.94%	176 4.64%	109
Full-Stack Development	32	Up 25 places+25	£90,000	+20.00%	172 4.54%	75
Mentoring	33	Down -15 places-15	£85,000	+13.33%	171 4.51%	103
Fintech	35	Up 45 places+45	£95,000	+11.76%	161 4.25%	79
Decision-Making	37	No change0	£77,500	-1.58%	153 4.04%	127
Stakeholder Management	38	Down -11 places-11	£80,000	+6.66%	152 4.01%	144
Process Improvement	46	Up 30 places+30	£67,500	-	135 3.56%	32
Machine Learning	50	Up 6 places+6	£90,000	+5.88%	119 3.14%	83
ITIL	52	Down -22 places-22	£54,000	-1.81%	117 3.09%	28
Data Engineering	54	Up 31 places+31	£80,000	-5.88%	108 2.85%	45
Business Intelligence	55	Down -14 places-14	£80,000	+24.51%	107 2.82%	39
Infrastructure as Code	56	Down -12 places-12	£90,000	-	105 2.77%	56
Budgeting	57	Up 64 places+64	£65,000	-3.70%	103 2.72%	15
Data Science	59	Down -6 places-6	£85,000	-	101 2.66%	46
Microservices	61	Down -2 places-2	£87,500	-7.89%	94 2.48%	56
Computer Science	64	Down -25 places-25	£75,000	-	91 2.40%	52
Data Pipeline	66	Up 30 places+30	£80,000	-	89 2.35%	44
Business Strategy	67	Down -12 places-12	£80,000	+3.22%	88 2.32%	29
Stakeholder Engagement	67	Up 17 places+17	£73,750	-13.23%	88 2.32%	63
Budgeting and Forecasting	71	Up 54 places+54	£65,000	-3.70%	84 2.22%	14
ERP	73	Up 20 places+20	£88,750	+5.97%	82 2.16%	24
Generative AI	74	Up 40 places+40	£92,500	+2.77%	81 2.14%	42
Workflow	74	Down -7 places-7	£65,000	+4.00%	81 2.14%	41
Coaching	75	Down -25 places-25	£70,000	+7.69%	80 2.11%	66
Data Architecture	76	Up 43 places+43	£90,000	+9.09%	77 2.03%	24
Platform Engineering	76	Down -7 places-7	£100,000	+21.21%	77 2.03%	60
User Experience	78	Down -40 places-40	£76,250	+1.66%	74 1.95%	39
Test Automation	79	Down -16 places-16	£80,000	-5.88%	73 1.93%	29
Change Management	82	Down -15 places-15	£72,500	+11.53%	69 1.82%	29
Information Security	82	Down -7 places-7	£92,500	+32.14%	69 1.82%	35
Migration	83	Down -41 places-41	£90,000	+16.12%	68 1.79%	53
LLM	85	Up 23 places+23	£95,000	-	64 1.69%	43
Project Delivery	85	Down -21 places-21	£72,500	-14.70%	64 1.69%	45
Business Analysis	86	Down -2 places-2	£65,000	-18.75%	63 1.66%	15
Infrastructure Engineering	86	Up 19 places+19	£90,000	+18.03%	63 1.66%	18
Technical Leadership	86	Up 24 places+24	£90,000	-14.28%	63 1.66%	64
ITSM	87	Down -16 places-16	£55,000	+25.58%	62 1.64%	25
Observability	88	Down -1 place-1	£87,500	+12.90%	61 1.61%	64
Incident Response	89	Up 14 places+14	£87,500	+34.61%	60 1.58%	25
Collaborative Culture	89	Down -2 places-2	£80,000	+16.38%	60 1.58%	26