Process & Methodology Statistics in the City of London

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 12 Sep 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
AI	6	Up 10 places+10	£90,000	-2.70%	348 10.93%	629
Software Engineering	13	Up 27 places+27	£90,000	+5.88%	270 8.48%	166
Business Development	15	Up 78 places+78	£60,000	-17.24%	262 8.23%	135
Agile	16	Down -13 places-13	£80,000	+3.22%	247 7.76%	229
Analytics	18	Up 1 place+1	£90,000	-	227 7.13%	356
Continuous Improvement	20	No change0	£76,250	+27.08%	214 6.72%	215
Roadmaps	21	Down -4 places-4	£92,000	+2.22%	205 6.44%	301
Problem-Solving	25	Down -20 places-20	£65,500	+0.76%	192 6.03%	262
DevOps	26	Down -13 places-13	£86,750	+5.15%	186 5.84%	133
Stakeholder Management	27	Down -3 places-3	£80,000	-3.03%	183 5.75%	385
CI/CD	29	Down -8 places-8	£83,000	-2.35%	169 5.31%	181
Cybersecurity	31	Up 30 places+30	£72,500	-3.33%	159 4.99%	133
Decision-Making	32	Down -3 places-3	£77,500	-3.12%	155 4.87%	285
Full-Stack Development	37	Up 24 places+24	£95,000	+18.75%	136 4.27%	59
Fintech	38	Up 49 places+49	£100,000	+17.64%	132 4.14%	115
Mentoring	38	Down -15 places-15	£90,000	+17.64%	132 4.14%	150
Process Improvement	43	Up 26 places+26	£70,000	+3.70%	113 3.55%	83
Machine Learning	48	Down -1 place-1	£95,000	+5.55%	101 3.17%	164
Stakeholder Engagement	50	Up 29 places+29	£77,500	-6.06%	95 2.98%	102
Data Engineering	51	Up 35 places+35	£80,000	-5.88%	94 2.95%	84
ITIL	51	Down -24 places-24	£62,500	+4.16%	94 2.95%	44
Business Intelligence	51	Down -16 places-16	£80,000	+20.30%	94 2.95%	124
Infrastructure as Code	52	Down -2 places-2	£90,000	-	93 2.92%	86
Workflow	53	Up 23 places+23	£70,000	+12.00%	92 2.89%	101
Data Pipeline	56	Up 40 places+40	£82,500	-2.94%	88 2.76%	51
Microservices	58	Up 6 places+6	£88,750	-4.05%	86 2.70%	57
Platform Engineering	62	Up 27 places+27	£100,000	+29.03%	79 2.48%	77
Data Architecture	64	Up 50 places+50	£90,000	+11.11%	75 2.35%	46
Generative AI	64	Up 49 places+49	£95,000	-7.31%	75 2.35%	130
Computer Science	65	Down -26 places-26	£72,500	-4.91%	72 2.26%	113
Migration	66	Down -36 places-36	£90,000	+12.50%	71 2.23%	118
Data Science	67	Down -15 places-15	£90,000	+9.09%	70 2.20%	148
Test Automation	67	Down -8 places-8	£81,250	-4.41%	70 2.20%	49
Storytelling	67	Up 63 places+63	£88,750	+50.42%	70 2.20%	33
Observability	67	Up 27 places+27	£90,000	+16.12%	70 2.20%	101
Technical Leadership	68	Up 36 places+36	£91,500	-3.68%	69 2.17%	115
Infrastructure Engineering	69	Up 40 places+40	£90,000	+20.00%	68 2.14%	37
Budgeting	69	Up 37 places+37	£65,000	-3.70%	68 2.14%	35
Information Security	70	Up 13 places+13	£92,500	+27.58%	67 2.10%	55
CRM	70	Down -13 places-13	£72,500	-3.33%	67 2.10%	106
ERP	71	Up 29 places+29	£90,000	+9.09%	65 2.04%	77
User Experience	71	Down -33 places-33	£72,500	+3.57%	65 2.04%	80
Business Strategy	72	Down -28 places-28	£82,500	+6.45%	64 2.01%	65
Line Management	72	Up 27 places+27	£72,500	-14.70%	64 2.01%	24
Project Delivery	74	Down -7 places-7	£70,000	-16.41%	62 1.95%	116
LLM	74	Up 31 places+31	£95,000	-	62 1.95%	106
Budgeting and Forecasting	78	Up 41 places+41	£65,000	-3.70%	58 1.82%	21
Coaching	78	Down -27 places-27	£97,480	+46.58%	58 1.82%	97
Change Management	80	Up 2 places+2	£75,000	+11.11%	56 1.76%	83
Risk Management	80	Down -34 places-34	£85,000	-5.55%	56 1.76%	131