Process & Methodology Statistics in the East Midlands

Permanent Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 5 May 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Cybersecurity	5	Up 37 places+37	£51,500	+41.08%	544 12.02%	115
Business Development	6	Up 86 places+86	£50,000	+23.45%	467 10.32%	93
AI	8	Up 35 places+35	£52,500	-16.00%	386 8.53%	148
Problem-Solving	12	Down -7 places-7	£35,000	-9.09%	354 7.82%	170
Mentoring	21	Down -17 places-17	£49,500	-17.50%	270 5.96%	91
Continuous Improvement	23	Up 9 places+9	£47,500	+18.75%	251 5.54%	133
Agile	26	Down -3 places-3	£55,000	-8.33%	227 5.01%	108
Customer Service	29	Down -15 places-15	£28,500	+3.63%	222 4.90%	83
Business Intelligence	30	Up 28 places+28	£47,500	-1.04%	221 4.88%	69
User Experience	34	Up 45 places+45	£45,000	+28.57%	204 4.51%	58
Analytics	36	Up 11 places+11	£50,000	+3.09%	202 4.46%	114
Machine Learning	43	Up 42 places+42	£62,500	-12.28%	175 3.87%	77
Software Engineering	44	Down -7 places-7	£62,500	-	171 3.78%	66
CRM	45	Up 2 places+2	£42,500	-	170 3.76%	71
Web Development	49	Up 51 places+51	£35,000	-	164 3.62%	44
Process Improvement	65	Up 4 places+4	£32,500	-23.52%	127 2.81%	36
Service Delivery	65	Up 8 places+8	£42,500	-19.04%	127 2.81%	41
Roadmaps	69	Down -15 places-15	£75,500	+16.60%	120 2.65%	75
ITIL	71	Down -35 places-35	£42,500	+21.42%	117 2.58%	31
DevOps	71	Down -20 places-20	£70,000	+7.69%	117 2.58%	54
Logistics	72	Down -12 places-12	£50,000	+11.11%	116 2.56%	65
Full-Stack Development	73	Down -11 places-11	£55,000	+15.78%	114 2.52%	38
ERP	74	Down -14 places-14	£55,500	+23.33%	112 2.47%	73
Decision-Making	75	Down -29 places-29	£55,000	+15.78%	110 2.43%	107
B2B	76	Up 8 places+8	£42,500	+38.21%	105 2.32%	51
Ethical Hacking	78	New entry-	£41,779	-	98 2.16%	6
Stakeholder Management	81	Down -23 places-23	£56,250	-6.25%	92 2.03%	61
ITSM	85	Down -36 places-36	£32,500	+10.16%	87 1.92%	17
CI/CD	87	Down -10 places-10	£67,500	+3.84%	84 1.86%	69
E-Commerce	89	Down -9 places-9	£45,000	+20.00%	81 1.79%	25
Project Delivery	90	Down -18 places-18	£55,000	+7.31%	79 1.75%	35
Coaching	91	Down -80 places-80	£38,500	-9.41%	78 1.72%	49
Collaborative Working	94	Down -21 places-21	£42,500	-15.00%	73 1.61%	31
Stakeholder Engagement	95	Up 15 places+15	£60,000	-	70 1.55%	42
Test Automation	96	Down -38 places-38	£60,000	+20.00%	69 1.52%	26
Service Management	101	Down -10 places-10	£35,000	+10.23%	64 1.41%	12
Infrastructure Engineering	104	Down -3 places-3	£45,000	-14.28%	61 1.35%	13
Project Management	105	Down -75 places-75	£55,000	+22.22%	60 1.33%	76
Customer Experience	106	Down -59 places-59	£49,000	+50.76%	59 1.30%	46
Risk Management	107	Down -20 places-20	£65,000	-13.33%	58 1.28%	23
Root Cause Analysis	108	Down -19 places-19	£35,000	-7.89%	57 1.26%	17
Validation	114	Down -102 places-102	£30,000	-41.17%	51 1.13%	36
Information Security	115	Down -19 places-19	£45,000	-10.00%	50 1.10%	21
Computer Science	116	Down -72 places-72	£27,875	-32.72%	48 1.06%	40
Collaborative Culture	116	Down -13 places-13	£47,500	+8.57%	48 1.06%	26
Incident Management	117	Down -38 places-38	£28,500	+14.00%	47 1.04%	15
Infrastructure as Code	118	Down -8 places-8	£67,750	+4.23%	45 0.99%	18
Data Science	119	Down -19 places-19	£53,945	-28.07%	44 0.97%	42
Actionable Insight	119	Down -15 places-15	£51,279	+34.94%	44 0.97%	38
Presales	121	Down -17 places-17	£70,000	+7.69%	42 0.93%	17